Fairy Cake or Cupcake - what do you call yours?

[Maurice Picarda]

No clue what a John Humphreys is - is that like a Jack Daniels????

Wry, not rye.

 

[Edie]

wat?!

Muffins are those big cakes you get in Starbucks or whatever, that pretend to be healthy but have about a million calories unfortunately

Fairy cakes, strictly speaking, have the tops cut off and made like wings in icing (hence the alternative name: butterfly cakes). But generally a fairy cake that hasn't had the top cut off is still known as a fairy cake.

And cupcakes are those American ones that are a bit like fairy cakes but steeper sides and flat icing on top.

They're all fucking lush, though I have a preference for fairy cakes just cos sometimes the iceing/ cake ratio of the cupcake can be a bit out.

I made cherry fairy cakes yesterday by blending cherries in with the mix. Sometimes I think the icing is just too sickly though, so left these uniced.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Maple syrup over sausages and blueberry pancakes is one of the best ways to wake up in the morning.

Are you talking oversized Scottish pancakes like this

or what we in the UK call pancakes

 

[spring-peeper]

Do butterfly cakes, they're prettier

From the pictures I've seen on this thread, I would have to agree.

I hope I find a recipe that will compensate for my lack of artistic cake decorating.

(I still haven't had my breakfast. My mouth is ready for cake and it's gonna get cereal. (((tastebuds))) )

 

[spring-peeper]

The scottish ones. We call the others crepes for some reason.

I remember the first time I order pancakes over here. I was expecting the UK variety. When the stack arrived, I didn't eat it. It looked horrible!!!!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

From the pictures I've seen on this thread, I would have to agree.

I hope I find a recipe that will compensate for my lack of artistic cake decorating.

(I still haven't had my breakfast. My mouth is ready for cake and it's gonna get cereal. (((tastebuds))) )

Just use the recipe for fairy cakes and then cut the tops off and slice them in half and stick them on the top. They then become butterfly cakes

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The scottish ones. We call the others crepes for some reason.

I remember the first time I order pancakes over here. I was expecting the UK variety. When the stack arrived, I didn't eat it. It looked horrible!!!!

Same thing. When I went to my Auntie's in America I thought it was very strange to be offered pancakes for breakfast so was really looking forward to it.

When these oversized Scottish pancakes arrived, my heart sank

 

[spring-peeper]

Just use the recipe for fairy cakes and then cut the tops off and slice them in half and stick them on the top. They then become butterfly cakes

Thanks. I use a little icing to help stick them in place????

This is really going to wow the kids (and hubby who is just one giant sweet-tooth).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Thanks. I use a little icing to help stick them in place????

This is really going to wow the kids (and hubby who is just one giant sweet-tooth).

buttery icing

or cream

 

[PacificOcean]

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

Homophobia ahoy!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Homophobia ahoy!

I reckon that's why the American's don't call them fairy cakes

 

[dodgepot]

For dodgepot

heh. i should have said an american muffin, shouldn't i? <a whole other can of worms opens>

thanks

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

heh. i should have said an american muffin, shouldn't i? <a whole other can of worms opens>

thanks

Well you didn't actually ask for an muffins, I was just feeling generous

 

[foo]

i call fairy cakes fairy cakes and cupcakes cupcakes.

yeh, they're totally different cakes aren't they?

 

[dodgepot]

yes

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yeh, they're totally different cakes aren't they?

so I've just discovered, as has mango

 

[smokedout]

they're buns in our house!!!

this

 

[Sasaferrato]

there buns in our house!!!

Ours too.

 

[Pingu]

heh. i should have said an american muffin, shouldn't i? <a whole other can of worms opens>

thanks

and lets not start on chips

sometimes i do wonder about the seppos

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

this

Ours too.

you're all strange

and lets not start on chips

sometimes i do wonder about the seppos

I wonder, do they call chunky chips french fries as well, or just MacDonalds size shite?

 

[Pingu]

you're all strange



I wonder, do they call chunky chips french fries as well, or just MacDonalds size shite?

if they dont then they bally well should

 

[foo]

they called potato wedges fries in a caff i was in once.

madness i tell ya.

 

[seeformiles]

My Ma always made "buns" and if she cut the top off, sliced it in two and and stuck them back on like little wings with cream they were "Angel Cakes"

(Makes a lovely bun my mum!)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

they called potato wedges fries in a caff i was in once.

madness i tell ya.

Stupid


What about oven cook chips?

 

[Ms Ordinary]

fairy buns

 

[debsinleeds]

we call them buns here up north

 

[moose]

Buns! Buns!! BUNS!!!

 

[bi0boy]

fairy faps

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fairy Cakes

Maybe if she renames them fairy cakes, she'll get better custom. The youth of today are probably so used to hearing cup cakes in American programmes, they'll think fairy cakes are something new and trendy

 

[spanglechick]

buns are made of dough. cakes are made of batter.

although it isn't the london idiom, i can accept, therefore, that a bread roll is justifiably, a bun.

an iced finger is a bun.
a hot cross bun is a bun.
a chelsea bun is a bun.
a danish pastry is also a bun.
a currant bun is a bun.

but buns are bready and cakes are spongey and all you northerners are just wrong on this one. If little cakes are called buns, how do you differentiate between bready sweet things and cakey sweet things?

if everything is a bun, how would you differentiate between a rock cake, a fairy cake with dried fruit in it, and a currant bun?

hell. in. a. handbasket.