Ooh, one of my pet peeves, the way all sorts of dessert cakes get confused
with muffins, especially in non-English-speaking places. Please use any
decent chocolate cake recipe and bake (for a shorter time) in cupcake
liners, and you have cupcakes.

Muffins are supposed to be a not-so-sweet tea bread, the sort of thing that
could be whipped together in half an hour or less for unexpected visitors.
Muffins use a special mixing technique: no more than 50 strokes with a
mixing spoon. The dough looks very lumpy, but shorter mixing time and less
agitation mean that the gluten in the flour doesn't toughen. Muffins should
have a very light crumb. They should also rise quickly and form a slightly
pointy top. And you need a proper baking tin, the holes should be about 2"
deep (without digging it out to measure).
Roberta in D

"Johanna Gibson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I was all set to make chocolate cupcakes, but my American cookbook
doesn't have a recipe for them! How can this be? It has various
recipes for muffins... which leads me to wonder: What is the
difference between a muffin and a cupcake?
Anyway, I know many of you love to bake, so can someone help me out
and post their favorite Chocolate Cupcake Recipe?
Meanwhile, I'll make a pound cake instead, in a half chocolate/half
vanilla style.



-- Jo in Scotland