I was searching the website for a better cupcake recipe and I chanced upon this page.
The name “cup cake” was first used, not to describe its size, but to how the cake’s ingredients were measuered. It seems that before the 1880s, ingredients for baking cakes were ‘weighed’ so when recipes started to be written with ‘cup’ measurements, they were named ‘cup cakes’ to reflect this difference.
Interesting… isnt it? 
