| 单词 | cupcake |
| 释义 | cupcake (once / 16601 pages) n A cupcake is a small, sweet baked good topped with frosting. You might bake cupcakes for your best friend's birthday. When you make cupcakes, you mix up cake batter and instead of baking it in large pans, pour it into the small, paper-lined indentations in a cupcake or muffin pan. Some people prefer cupcakes to cakes, because they're the perfect serving size. In Britain and Australia, cupcakes are called "fairy cakes." Cupcake is an American English word dating from the 19th century. WORD FAMILYcupcake: cupcakes USAGE EXAMPLES“We don’t do anything special,” Deb said of the cupcakes. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) “No candy rewards, no cupcakes for birthdays, no holiday parties with food,” she says. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) After 45 minutes of fun, they gathered around candle-lit cupcakes and the singing began. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) n small cake baked in a muffin tin Hyper cake baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat |
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