National Vanilla Cupcake Day on November 10 celebrates small cakes that originally gained popularity as “1234 cakes” or “number cakes”. The earlier name incorporated the vanilla cupcake recipe and secretly tells how to bake cupcakes step-by-step. Here you are the portions: 1 cup of butter 2 cups of sugar 3 cups of flour 4 eggs 1 cup of milk 1 spoonful of soda In original classic cupcake recipes, frosting was not in trend. Cupcakes were given flavours of dried fruit and spices only.