Today is Wednesday December 15, 2010
10 Days till Christmas
17 Days til 2011

National Cupcake Day

Cupcakes have been an edible American icon since the 19th century. Prior to cupcakes, ingredients used in baking were primarily weighed rather than measured. These delightful little treats shifted the art of baking from weighing to measuring ingredients.

For a while cupcakes were known as one-two-three-four cakes because of their recipe: one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, plus one cup of milk and one spoon full of baking soda. This formula is still the traditional cupcake recipe that many people use today.

Fun fact: the world's largest cupcake was on display in July 2009 at the Covent Garden Real Food Market in London. This cupcake was about 4 feet in diameter and weighed over 330 pounds! It also contained 200 eggs and took over 50 hours to make. Yikes!

Celebrate National Cupcake Day with your favorite cupcake recipe or head to a local cupcake shop to find one that fits your fancy!

December is National Fruit Cake Month & National Egg Nog Month

"Images and text courtesy of MyPunchbowl.com" -- http://www.mypunchbowl.com/

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On this day in History:

1815 - Jane Austen's "Emma" was published. 1938 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt presided over the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. 1939 - "Gone With the Wind", produced by David O. Selznick and based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. 1966 - Walter Elias "Walt" Disney died in Los Angeles at the age of 65.

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Quote of the Day:
"Happiness is like coke -- something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."

--Aldous Huxley