General Chat

When did fairy cakes get bigger and change their name???
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When somebody had a good marketting idea :-D

Just another one of those imports from the US I believe,

first the yanks have to have the biggest of everything, "mine is bigger than yours" :-P

second it saved them from having to share a full sized cake "tight g*ts" :-P

Roy

Jenxx, maybe in the US fairies are simply overweight so they have bigger fairy cakes:-D

I do think the trend to have cupcakes instead of a wedding cake just looks plain silly!
Yet another US import, mutter mutter huff n puff!

I don't even like them much either, all that gooey butter cream stuff. They can look pretty for little girls' birthday parties but no, don't like them for weddings.

I can remember when I was young the cupcakes you bought were by Lyons and had a thick fondant topping much nicer than butter icing ..... Now I just think they are a glorified fairy cake but they do look nice. Like you Ann don't like them for weddings .

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

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 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

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

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/

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

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 ;-)

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!!

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.

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

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 :-)

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

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

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