Muffin cake is a simple cake, originating from the United States. Muffin is the phonetic translation. It's relies heavily on baking powder and baking soda as the type of chemical bulking agent to power the cake's loosening.

A cupcake, on the other hand, is a cake that is made using paper cups for cakes as a container or substitute mold for the cake. Just the cake with paper cups as the container can be called cupcake, the cake inside can be muffin cake, butter cake, whole egg sponge cake, chiffon cake and so on.

As for the steps, muffin cake can be almost regardless of the steps, just make sure that all the ingredients are well mixed, no flour into a dough does not melt on it, it can be filled into paper cups, but also into some small molds to make a cake. (Muffin is a class of heavy oil cake, generally do not make too big, or taste greasy, and alkali flavor will become heavy some)

Muffin cake base materials are: oil + sugar + eggs + low gluten flour + baking powder

As for the cupcake, it is the steps of any kind of cake batter poured into the cups into the oven to bake, out of the cake that is XX cupcakes. For example, muffin cupcakes, chiffon cupcakes and so on.