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Cupcakes....ewwwwwwwwwww :-D

They're 'today's trendy cake'............can't stand 'em m'self.


Too sickly sweet.

Too showy.

Too much hot air in them.


I agree GB.....Yuk!

I remember the Kunzle cakes. I loved the coffee tasting ones, I think they were a bit more expensive than most other small cakes.

I am with you Sharron, I don't think I could eat one, far too sweet for me now.

My taste buds seem to change as I get older.

There was a Kunzles tearoom in Birmingham in the 1950s.
Special treat was to be taken for afternoon tea by my gran . Tea & a Kunzles cake.
Sometimes Dad would land home with a box of 4 of them as a surprise.
Personally I preferred the chocolate fudge variety which I think were made by Lyons & later taken over by Mr Kipling.
Can´t imagine what the kit consists of though.

Is a cup making 'kit' more than just a cake mix? :-S :-S

That cake with the chocolate shell and full of cream wasn't a cupcake. That was a Kunzl Showboat.

I knew of them and always dreamed of having one but never did. I had Lyons cupcakes though, usually chocolate, but, if I was really lucky there were orange and lemon ones too.

I find the idea of a chocolate Lyons cupcake a bit nauseating now.

I can think of nothing worse than adding food colouring to cakes - YUK

Seen it all now!!!!
In Lidl yesterday, cupcake making KITS & butterfly cake making kits. :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S

Just the sight of them makes me feel sick.. :-)

No matter what the cup cake tastes like they seem to be making a market for themselves with Cup Cake shops opening all over the place wonder if the shops will have a long life, not been in one yet, but I bet a lot of work goes into decorating them :-)

I remember as a kid having a cupcake (bought from shop in a box of 6 or 4) and they were a chocolate shell filled with fondant cream....so not really a cake...they were square, round or hexagonal ect

Mum is coming round shortly will ask her if she remembers them

Oh I remember those Lyons cupcakes Nolls - used to love them :-)
And I prefer the small fairy cakes to the modern cupcake.
Maybe the cupcakes are just trying to keep up with the muffins ;-)
A muffin wasn't a cake when I was younger, it was a bread thing.

Dazed - they are known as butterfly cakes - cut top off - blob of butter icing/cream and cut top in half and stick in cream to resemble wings!

First cake I made at school!!

I don't like them...they look pretty on a chintzy plate but they're all show and no substance, I had a pink one once just because it looked pretty, truly horrible.
I guess I'm a 'give me a plain honest sponge cake ' kind of girl ;-)

I love the fairy cakes when the top is cut of, cut in half and put back on to make wings.....

Cupcake - pimp my fairy cake.... :-D

They usuallly leave me feeling rather queasy ....

Cakepops seem to be the newer trend
http://greenlif3.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/homemade-cake-pops-mmmmm/

Yes, they look pretty and nice for children, but I have seen my Granddaughter, when she was younger, ask for one when out, then eat the top and leave the rest because the top was so sickly she couldn't eat any more.

BC

What did she do for 3 weeks on cup cakes??? :-S

I had a woman from Bulgaria staying with me. She came to London to do a three week course on....cup cakes! :-D Each evening she would bring me home samples and I became Chief Taster. I never ever ever wish to eat another one. They went down big in Sofia, I believe. :-D

I always make fairy cakes with a bit of icing the kids love them and love to sprinkle bits and bobs on the icing and usually look well ..."Beautiful Sweetheart aren't you clever" .... but taste the same ;-)

I think they're daft, too - all that sickly buttercream makes them just about inedible, but maybe they are just to look at. Bring back wholesome, old fashioned cakes, I say! :-D