What's the difference between a muffin and a cupcake ?

Question

and why do I care ?

Answer 1

Muffins don't have frosting?

Answer 2

A muffin is usually made from bread dough and not particularly sweet. It is more of a bread made in an individual serving. A cup cake is usually an actual cake that is sweet, often iced and in most cases has a paper around the bottom of it so it would come out of the pan easily when it was cooked. A cupcake in effect is an individual serving of cake.

Answer 3

A Muffin is made out of Corn Mill while a CupCake is made out of Cake Mix.

Answer 4

Similar in appearance but muffin has a drier and scone-like texture whereas cupcake has the texture exactly like a cake. Icing are used for both.

Answer 5

I would say that a true cupcake, I mean a real live full on cupcake, has icing. Your standard muffin don't.

Answer 6

a muffin batter is stirred, and is heaveir then a cupcake,,,,,, a cupcake batter is beaten, and the texture is light ,, like a regular cake,,,,,, actually a cupcake is just a cake cooked in cups!(muffin tins)

Answer 7

thats easy, a muffin is not the same at all. a cake is sugary and fluffy with icing all over it adn a muffin is a fluffy bread, such as banna nut bread

Answer 8

a muffin doesn't have a papercup on it,cupcake does..heheh

Answer 9

cup cake is cake made in cup cake tins it consist of a frosting and some times a filling and is moist and
muffin has no topping its fruity and nutty and some time has chocolate chips its fluffier and softer