Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 07, 2021

That’s easy…a cupcake has frosting on it while a muffin doesn’t. ;-)

It’s mainly texture and content, but muffins are getting more cupcakey all the time.

One is a small sweet cake and the other is a cartoon cat.

“Where are my chocolate muffins?"

Cupcakes have frosting. Muffins don’t.

Easy – cupcakes are feminine, and muffins are borderline confections.

Well, for starters, no one ever paid three dollars for a cupcake top.

Cupcakes are cakes that can be eaten by one person in one sitting. Muffins are bread baked in a shallow round pan.

I’d never go through so much trouble to get an answer for that question.

A cupcake is something you might actually want to eat. A muffin; not so much.

Muffins often have bran in them.

Icing goes on the cupcake, not the muffin!

It’s easy!!

Cupcake and Muffin are spelled differently!!

Is this really an issue people have?

Asking the big questions today in the FAQ. Questions I am too lowly to have even deigned to consider.

You came all that way to ask The Great Guru that question of little importance? Shame on you! ;D

Done properly, either is great with the right cuppa. Who needs to know more?

And why does everyone assume Humpty Dumpty was an egg? It’s never mentioned.

They’re both annoying nicknames people use for their sweethearts.

Icing

The truth is that he probably just doesn’t care enough to find out.

… and like “Seriously? You came all this way to ask me that?!”

In that case, apart from the fact that one is served with a spoon and the other with chips, what’s the difference between gazpacho and salsa?

Cupcakes have icing and sprinkles . . .muffins do not.

There, I solved one of the universe’s mysteries . . .

One doesn’t mind forty-five seconds in a toaster oven then begs to be buttered.

There’s no such thing as a blueberry cupcake.

Muffins are for breakfast; cupcakes for dessert…so finish your breakfast & you can have some dessert!

A cupcake has frosting!

cup cakes have frosting so lick the frosting off the cupcake and make it a muffin

I don’t know muffin ’bout no cakes.

Not often a-round pie, either.

Yes, there are differences. I know. But I’m not going to tell.

Some people… some people like cupcakes exclusively, while myself, I sayThere is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of god’s greyEarth as that prince of foods… the muffin!

If that was the question he’d travel miles and climb a mountain for… He’s got too much time on his hands.

Have you ever had a bran cupcake?

I STILL want to know why Hot Dogs come in packs of 10, and Hot Dog Buns in packs of 8 !!

Wisdom isn’t about knowing everything, It’s about knowing the right thing. A wise man may not know lunar escape velocity but he better know his wife’s birthday.

Frosting….that’s part of the difference

Oh, come!!!!! DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

It’s how you mix the batter. https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-cupcake-v-113056

Cupcakes are smaller and have fewer Kcal.

Muffins have a denser texture than cupcakes. They also tend to include more spices and fillings like nuts or fruits, so the flavors are spread throughout the muffin instead of being added on top. While some muffins can have a thin glaze or powdered sugar topping, most cupcakes require a frosting to enhance their flavor. It isn’t the basic ingredients in each as much as the way the batter is prepared. Cupcakes are made by creaming the butter and sugar together a long time to create a smooth, fluffy batter. Muffin batter, on the other hand, is beaten briefly and remains a bit lumpy (a lot of packaged muffin mixed will say stir or mix until moistened; packaged cake mixes will often say to beat at high speed fora short while and then at medium speed for a longer period). All that said, my question is, where do brownies fit in? Are they a cake, a muffin, a cookie, or a totally different species?

Starve a cold? Feed a fever?

Both leave stumps behind

You never hear of a ‘stud cupcake’.

When I was taught to make muffins in home ec class back in the miocene epoch, there really was a difference. We were taught to fold the wet and dry ingredients together with no more than 12 strokes to keep the texture a bit coarse and rustic. These muffins had things like wholemeal flour in them, with maybe some dates for sweetening.

Over the years the commercial bakeries have given us the cake texture muffins with things like chocolate chips and the lines have blurred.

The definitive answer.. Most of it is in the method of preparation. https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/cupcake-different-from-muffin-facts

If you buy it in a coffee shop, it’s a muffin. If you buy it in a bakery, it’s a cupcake, and a dollar more.

In my small corner of the large world muffins tend to be more interesting than cupcakes.

That might also be true for you. Think of the difference between calling a person a cupcake or a muffin.

A muffin is something you have with a coffee. A cupcake is a sweet cake covered with enough icing to gag a hog.

And you’ll never see a Bran cupcake.

Cupcake is the 1.5 version of an Android phone. Muffin is what you get when you don’t watch your step in a cow field.

How can anyone not know this? Been living in a cave?☺️

About a tablespoon of sugar. (I’ll bill you for that answer.)

‘Spelling’

Cupcakes are sweeter; Muffins are less sweet and more of a bread-like consistency.

A muffin is an acceptable breakfast food. While a cupcake is a desert. If you feel like eating a cupcake for breakfast, then tell everyone it’s a muffin. (if they ask)

A cupcake has frosting.

That’s as funny as the comic.

Make me want to bake a batch of savoury scones for elevenses today and first breakfast for tomorrow.

Groan

A cupcake come in a cup. A muffin comes in a muff. You’re welcome

That’s an answer, not an FAQ. And a cupcake is made with cake mix while a muffin is made with muffin mix. That guy is apparently the opposite of a sage.

I would have expected a F.A.Q. answer regarding the meaning of life.

One has frosting.

Seems like with almost everything these days different areas call stuff by different names ? Icing/Frosting, Soda/Pop, who defunded the Police Dems/GOP. Will it ever end ?

In the next frame, the guy berates the guru for not putting the sign at the bottom of the mountain.

If it has frosting, it’s a cupcake. Simple as that.

Icing.

That’s easy: A Cupcake gets Frosted. A Muffin’s Top is naked of any hint of decoration or frosting.

One has frosting, one doesn’t #NotThatComplicated.

“Some people… some people like cupcakes exclusivelyWhile myself, I say there is not, nor ought there beNothing so exalted on the face of God’s great EarthAs that prince of foods… The Muffin!”

lick the frosting off of it and it’s a muffin.

Moving on: Crocodile or alligator? Groundhog or woodchuck? Wasp, hornet, or yellowjacket? Tip or gratuity? Soda or pop? Tennies or sneakers? Crayfish or crawdads? Lightning bug or firefly? Drinking fountain or bubbler? Ignorance, indifference, or stupidity?

Gods would live in mountain summits and you could talk to them.

One pretends to be healthy, the other says oh hey let’s just all have a good time.

“cupcakes aren’t for breakfast!” – Derpy Hooves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opNG-yJR2KQ

There used to be a big difference between cupcakes and muffins. Then Big Food decided that calling giant cupcakes “muffins” made them sound healthy. Look up muffin recipes in an old cookbook. Not much fat or sugar, and MUCH smaller size.

My wife makes the best, most healthy muffins I have ever had. So, why do I still have a muffin-top?

Better ask the muffin man who lives on Drury Lane.