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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] deepfriedchril@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfrosted cake is still cake.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

not in the club, tho

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cupcake, because muffin batter and cupcake batter are made slightly differently

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s still a cupcake because it’s cake and not muffin. Cake is a sweeter and fluffier kind of bread because it has more sugar and fat, whereas muffins are basically just dense bread.

[–] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neither are really bread as they are not leavened with yeast.

[–] doc@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

They're categorized as quick breads.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a half-eaten cupcake. You can take two wheels off a car, but that doesn't make it a motorcycle.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

If you frosted a muffin, would you call it a cupcake? What if you baked a really tiny sourdough loaf, with garlic and onions. If you frosted it, would it be a cupcake?

Completely different batter, so no. You would have a deconstructed cupcake.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Muffins I believe are denser with more fat and less sugar. Though I see what you're saying and we're all just making excuses to eat dessert for breakfast sometimes.

[–] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Personally since I discovered my local supermarket has passable pain au chocolate in 10 packs I’ve been eating those for breakfast with a coffee. Be the dessert for breakfast you want to see in the world.

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

This was exactly my thought, too

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

My understanding is that a cupcake is made of the same stuff as cake, while a muffin is more like bread

[–] Jg1@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I see this question I can only be sad for people who can consider it perplexing. Yeah - if you have a sufficiently boring muffin and a sufficiently dense cake, you could see them as pretty similar but ... eat better food.

Put some good stuff in your muffins (blueberries, poppy seeds, nuts, chocolate, etc) and learn to keep your cakes lighter and fluffier (especially for cupcakes) instead of rich like a muffin.

As others have said, they are different batters, the cooked result of both should be pretty noticeably different with it without frosting.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Well thought out answer. I like it

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I’ve asked myself (and anyone else that would listen) this question many times before, and still have not yet heard a satisfactory answer.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't the cupcake defined by being in a cup? So I'd say a muffin is also a cupcake.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. A cupcake is defined by being a cake in a cup. Muffins aren’t cakes.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Muffins are also in cups though

Checkmate cakecupalists