cupcake

noun

cup·​cake ˈkəp-ˌkāk 

: a small cake baked in a cuplike mold

Examples of cupcake in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After dismantling their two true cupcakes, the Dawgs have to go on the road against Alabama and Ole Miss, but after that, the toughest game is… Oklahoma in Athens? — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

The band and football booster clubs will be selling cupcakes and keychains and stickers with his name and number on them to benefit the GoFundMe page that has been set up in Kufa’s name. — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026

Amanda Lopez, 24, likes making cupcakes in culinary class, but is active in several other programs. — Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

Indiana showed us the way by scheduling cupcakes for the first three weeks. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1828, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cupcake

• awake
• backache
• beefsteak
• betake
• cheesecake
• daybreak
• earthquake
• forsake
• gouache
• handshake
• headache
• heartache

Kids Definition

cupcake

noun

cup·​cake ˈkəp-ˌkāk 

: a small cake baked in a cup-shaped mold