Muffin = bread. Cupcake = cake. Very simple if, admittedly blurry. Depends on the amount of fat and, more importantly, sugar in the recipe.

Fun interview guys, keep it coming.

Apparently I was too hopped up on caffeine to make the argument effectively!

This place in Nashville (http://www.yelp.com/biz/las-paletas-gourmet-popsicles-nashville) makes Chocolate Popsicles in a variety of flavors – Chocolate with Paprika! Chocolate with wasabi!

This place in Raleigh (http://raleighdurham.about.com/od/diningandnightlife/a/locopops-flavor.htm) makes Chocolate Popsicles that aren’t Fudgsicles, too.

And no, you can’t buy them in a box in a store, but please don’t tell you only consider mass-manufactured and marketed items to be the only “legit” items you can buy. I believe you’ve just crushed the dreams of people who are interested in self-publishing, as well as spitting in the face of the FDO by discrediting the version of The Rookie that is for sale currently.

And according to my 8th grade Home Ec teacher, the difference is that muffins are mixed together by combining all the dry ingredients in one bowl and all the wet ingredients in another bowl, and slowly mixing the dry into the wet. For cupcakes, you pretty much dump it all in the bowl at the same time. Also, cupcakes tend to be lighter and fluffier, and most, if any height comes from fancy icing and decorations. Muffins are denser and a much less uniform texture (usually due to the fruit or other extras thrown in the batter).