National Chocolate Cupcake Day

Single-serving cake. Frosting included.

The cupcake's name and concept date to at least 1796, when a recipe was published for "a light cake to bake in small cups." The term "cupcake" appeared in an 1828 cookbook by Eliza Leslie. The cupcake had a massive cultural renaissance in the early 2000s, driven largely by Sex and the City filming a