Fairy Cake or Cupcake - what do you call yours?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Poll following shortly

 

[dodgepot]

i call fairy cakes fairy cakes and cupcakes cupcakes.

 

[Biddlybee]

i call fairy cakes fairy cakes and cupcakes cupcakes.

this.

 

[dodgepot]

cup cakes are more, well, cup shaped. fairy cakes are flatter than cup cakes and a lot wider at the top than the bottom.

 

[spanglechick]

depends how big they are. a fair cake is shallow and angles out fairly steeply as it goes up. a cupcake has the proportions of an american muffin, but is smaller.

fairy cake:

cupcakes:

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sounds to me like cup cakes are just mini-muffins

 

[spanglechick]

cup cakes are more, well, cup shaped. fairy cakes are flatter than cup cakes and a lot wider at the top than the bottom.

exactly.

 

[Bassism]

there buns in our house!!!

 

[T & P]

They are called magdalenas of course.

 

[spanglechick]

Sounds to me like cup cakes are just mini-muffins

nah - i think cupcakes imply they are iced.

 

[Vintage Paw]

depends how big they are. a fair cake is shallow and angles out fairly steeply as it goes up. a cupcake has the proportions of an american muffin, but is smaller.

fairy cake:

cupcakes:

This. But mostly I don't care. If it's got chocolate in it I'll eat it whateverthefuck it's called.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

nah - i think cupcakes imply they are iced.

oh


Which came first, the cup cake or the fairy cake?

 

[souljacker]

Surely a fairy cake is one that has the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top is added back on, looking like wings?

 

[dodgepot]

Surely a fairy cake is one that has the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top is added back on, looking like wings?

uh-oh. here we go.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

They are called magdalenas of course.

ah, fairy cakes with a hint of lemon?

 

[19sixtysix]

Where's the Minnie will send me a cake option.

 

[spanglechick]

there buns in our house!!!

buns:

They are called magdalenas of course.

magdelenas:

 

[gsv]

fairy cake:

cupcakes:

Those are both cookies, silly!
Then again, my parents are from SA.

GS(v)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

uh-oh. here we go.

No, that's a butterfly cake

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Where's the Minnie will send me a cake option.

I have none

 

[dodgepot]

No, that's a butterfly cake

why you sticking your tongue out at me? it's not me who asked the question!

 

[spanglechick]

Surely a fairy cake is one that has the top sliced off, filled with icing and then the top is added back on, looking like wings?

butterfly cake

 

[spring-peeper]

I'm originally from the UK and call them cupcakes. Not because of American television, because that is what they are called.

Fairy cakes just sounds ghey - no way you could get a boy to eat them.

 

[dodgepot]

"ghey" sod off.

 

[EastEnder]

I don't like cake.

 

[spanglechick]

Those are both cookies, silly!
Then again, my parents are from SA.

GS(v)

cookies:

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Butterfly cakes

 

[gsv]

cookies:

That's Yank. In the Old World we call those 'biscuits'

GS(v)

 

[dodgepot]

right now i really want some cup cakes, some fairy cakes and some butterfly cakes, please.

and a pot of tea.

 

[spring-peeper]

"ghey" sod off.