Aside from icing, is there really any difference between

>>7785760
it's all about density

>>7785763
So basically no

Cupcake generally has more sugar. And icing.

>>7785760
Muffins are a type of quick bread, cupcakes are (predictably) a type of cake

>>7785764
Basically yes

It means the dough the baking and dough-making are different

absolutely yes.

>muffins
made with more flour and eggs compared to butter and sugar
made using the dry / wet ingredient incorporation method

results in a dense and heavy texture, dryer crumb

>cupcakes
made with more butter and sugar compared to egg and flour
made using the creaming method

results in a lighter, fluffier texture and moister crumb

interestingly carrot cake is technically a muffin

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>>7785760
You can get iced muffins - where is your god now?

>>7785760
Yes.
The ingredient ratio is different, cake is uniform, and generally a light batter (with some exceptions, of course). Muffin batter is dense, and gets worse the longer you mix it, and you don't fold in whipped egg whites or any of that jazz like you do with cake batter.
The only way they are similar is that they are both baked goods made from a batter and baked in forms. But the batters are very different.

>>7785857
So basically there's no difference?

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>>7785774
This.

Just because you fat americans sweeten your muffins doesn't make them cakes, it just makes them shitty sugar bread with no fucking flavour

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your little cupcake has a muffin that you eat sometimes

problem solved