Cupcakes 杯子蛋糕

From cute cupcakes to magnificent, many tiered(多層的) cakes, bakeries are creating art for the eyes and the mouth. Even if you don't have a special occasion to celebrate, treat yourself. Life is too short to skip dessert!

從可愛的杯子蛋糕到亮麗、多層次的蛋糕，烘焙食品創造的是吸睛又好吃的藝術。即使你沒有特殊場合歡慶任何事，你也可以買來犒賞自己。生命如此短暫，別錯過這般甜點！

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1. Whether they have a sweet tooth(喜好甜食) or just want to celebrate an event, people around the world turn to cakes.

無論喜愛甜食或只是想要慶祝某個事件，全世界的人都會想到蛋糕。

2. The cupcake has wormed its way into(漸漸滲入…；逐漸而巧妙地取得) people's hearts.

杯子蛋糕早已漸漸地攻佔人們的心。

3. The rich flavor of the cake is combined with a frosting(n. 糖霜) that makes your taste buds(味蕾，常用複數形) tingle(v.興奮；激動). What's better, all of this comes in the perfect size for one person!

滋味豐富的杯子蛋糕加上糖霜，使你味蕾甦醒。更棒的是，它的份量剛剛好一人獨享！

It's not only the taste and convenient serving size
of cupcakes that people love. These small treats
 are often decorated in fanciful ways.

4. A classic cupcake features a vanilla cake topped with chocolate icing(糖霜；糖衣).

經典的杯子蛋糕以香草口味為主，上頭搭配巧克力糖霜。

Some bakeries add sprinkles or swirls of jam.

1. swirls  漩渦、螺旋狀物   2. sprinkle 此指一種彩色糖粒，西點裝飾食材

Others use more advanced decorating
techniques to create edible flowers or
cartoon characters to top the cupcakes.

5. When bakeries started selling them, they got creative. How does a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting sound?

麵包站販售此款糕點時，又賦予創新的巧思。巧克力杯子蛋糕加上花生醬糖霜，聽起來不賴吧？

6. There was a sudden explosion in cupcake popularity in 2000. Perhaps it was from their  appearance on the hit TV show Sex and the City.

杯子蛋糕在2000年一炮而紅。可能是因為杯子蛋羔曾在電視劇「慾望城市」中出現過。

7. Each cupcake-conquered country added its own touch(風格；特點) to the treat.

每個被杯子蛋糕征服的國家都為這個小點心加上當地特有的特色。

【文法補充】

What's better 更好的是

What's +形容詞比較級的片語，帶出逗點後的子句，以補充說明「更…的是…」，其他類似用法如下：

What's better,               更好的是，…
What's worse, S+V      更糟的是，…
What's more,                此外；而且…

Ex, I missed the bus. What's worse, it was raining.

as 作為連接詞

表「因為；由於」

A Wallace wants to study this weekend, he told his friends that he couldn't see them.

表「當…的時候」

I was leaving the classroom as Rachel was coming in, so we stopped and talked for a minute.

表「依照；如同…的方式」

You need to fold the paper here as the directions tell you to do.

【擷取自Live ABC】