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"Cobbling together a history of cupcakes was about as challenging as eating one without getting frosting all over my face, as the origin story of America&amp;#039;s Favorite Handheld Dessert is a murky one. Speaking to Scientific American, food historian Andrew Smith said cupcakes first popped up in an American cookbook a couple years prior in 1826, although earlier recipes dated back to the 1850s in England. Meanwhile, Krystina Cupcake Castella, author of &amp;quot;Crazy About Cupcakes&amp;quot; writes that the word first appeared in print in 1828 in Eliza Leslie&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;75 Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats.&amp;quot; Leslie was a Victorian-era Betty Crocker who may have picked up the cupcake &amp;quot;receipt&amp;quot; in England where she grew up..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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