Sprinkles Cupcakes, the first ever cupcake-only bakery, launches in Beverly Hills. Now, the chain produces 25,000 cupcakes a day from 11 locations.
Winston Churchill is the first person to suggest cupcakes should be frosted. Previously, the treats were made with dried fruit, spices, or gilded lard. He later blamed cupcakes for his jowls.
Hostess starts mass-producing its first snack cake-- that's right-- the cleverly named CupCake.
The earliest written reference of the cupcake appears in Eliza Leslie's “Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats.”
Bearing resemblance to English Fairy Cakes, cupcake were enjoyed throughout the 17 and 18 centuries. Cupcakes as we know them were first called "light cake to bake in small cups," a true mouthful of a title.