The cupcake, the small cake or fairy's cake is a small cake of American origin often very colored in individual portion, having the form of the muffin but the different composition.

Cooked in a paper mold or in silicone, he is generally covered with glazing and sometimes decorated.

Originally, the glazing is salted, but it was transformed little by little into a glazing sweetened with for example some butter cream or whipped cream either Italian meringue or Swiss meringue, ....