Statistically, I am obsessed with the cupcake. I click onto a cupcake article 100% of the time that I see a link to one. Here is the latest one that I found. I found it via Dan’s shared Google Reader items. He shared a link to some other article, but a more current one on the linked site was about cupcakes!
This article says that muffins tend to have as much or more calories as cupcakes. Based on this fact, I plan to choose a cupcake over a muffin whenever there is the opportunity to do so.
The news source was The Atlantic, a magazine that I should do more research on. The writer was a food guy named Corby Kummer, and gave an excellent presentation on good versus bad cake and frosting:
The best part was that he was an opponent of red velvet cake. I realize that I am not the only one!