Happy National Chocolate Cupcake Day! To celebrate, I've put together a quiz to test your knowledge of America's most beloved snack cake, the Hostess Cupcake. To dig into the creamy chocolatey delight, take the test now.
If a pimped out, gigantic version of the Hostess cupcake is not your style, you could always make this high-end homemade version of the snack time treat. — Big City, Little Kitchen
For those of you who love Hostess cupcakes, hold on to your seat. Here we have a giant pimped out version. Talk about awesome! — Baking Bites
Leave it to YumSugar to put cupcakes on my brain once again. Did you know she bakes cupcakes and brings them in for the office to sample? Ah, I digress... However she did recently point out a rather interesting report from NPR and the Diet Detective himself, Charles Stewart Platkin, on cupcakes.
Platkin believes that while cupcakes are incredibly delicious, we are not fully aware of their wrath - calorie wise. He took on NYC's finest bakeries, Magnolia (yum) and Crumbs (double yum) and put them against notable grocery heavyweight Hostess. Here are his findings:
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| The Crumbs vanilla cupcake (left) has 780 calories and nearly 36 grams of fat. Magnolia's comparatively dainty version has 389 calories and nearly 19 grams of fat. |
OK, so what about when compared to Hostess? To find out, read more
