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Is
a cupcake really just a muffin beneath all that icing?
Is a muffin really a cupcake without
all the fancy window dressing?
Can you be pro-cupcake while being
anti-muffin? Or pro-muffin and anti-cupcake?
Is it possible to enjoy both?
It’s hard to know where to draw the
line, if indeed a line should be drawn at all. Cupcakes and muffins have long
since been at war with one another. One is well-regarded as an irresistible treat
to be enjoyed at any moment, day or night, while the other is simply relegated
to a certain time of the day, which is usually the a.m. with a cup of coffee or
maybe a glass of orange juice.
There are also flavors to consider. Take
a carrot cake cupcake, most likely topped off with cream cheese icing. Carrots
are a vegetable, right? And yet, here it is, swirled into a treat that is held
in perhaps what some may consider as a higher standing than a muffin. Now let’s
take a double-chocolate, chocolate chip muffin, no icing needed. No vegetables,
either. Yet, it’s to be enjoyed in the morning and somehow is much more
decadent than a carrot cake cupcake.
Is this fair?
Can this justify the battle between
such delicious treats? The crumbs that are left behind? The paper sleeves
balled up and tossed away? Can this even explain the carefully-avoided fact that
cupcakes are made in muffin tins?
The battle is on-going.
Delicious, but on-going nonetheless.
