Fairy Cake or Cupcake - what do you call yours?

[Ceej]

Cakes are made of flour, sugar and butter!

Batter is for yorkshire puddings and pancakes!

Pancakes are not cakes, btw.

I though dough was for doughnuts (which COULD be defined as cake) and bread (which couldn't).

And Jaffa cakes are most definitely bisquits!

My head hurts.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

there buns in our house!!!

4 fucking pages yet it should have stopped here.

 

[mentalchik]

cakey is just cakey !



mmmmm cakey !

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

4 fucking pages yet it should have stopped here.

It's a valid argument, and it least it's not over 2000 posts of nothingness

 

[Ceej]

cakey is just cakey !



mmmmm cakey !

A simplistic view.

 

[moose]

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.

Wrong! (((future husband)))

A Danish pastry is a pastry. A currant bun is a teacake. A Chelsea bun is utter nonsense for people who don't know about buns. But a 'cupcake' is a fucking bun.

You'll be calling a barmcake an English Muffin next

 

[mentalchik]

A simplistic view.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I reckon this can be easily solved.

If you're from the south, they'll be called all sorts of nonsense, and you'll be wrong.

If you're from the north, they'll be called bloody buns, and you'll be right.

 

[Pingu]

I reckon this can be easily solved.

If you're from the south, they'll be called all sorts of nonsense, and you'll be wrong.

If you're from the north, they'll be called bloody buns, and you'll be right.

dunno..

i am from the north and have always known them as fairy cakes

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

i am from the north and have always known them as fairy cakes

You must be adopted.

 

[Teddy Picker]

They call them all cupcakes in Australia too. It's madness. And they call all sweets and confectionery 'lollies'.

Lollies. Werther's Original are not bloody lollies!

 

[dodgepot]

But a 'cupcake' is a fucking bun.

no. a cupcake is a cupcake. but not a fairy cake.

 

[noodles]

Isn't a cupcake where you fart in your hand and throw it into someone's face?

So I'll go with fairy cake.

 

[Strumpet]

A cupcake isn't a bun!! What's this madness!?!? It's a frigging cake.

 

[spanglechick]

Wrong! (((future husband)))

A Danish pastry is a pastry. A currant bun is a teacake. A Chelsea bun is utter nonsense for people who don't know about buns. But a 'cupcake' is a fucking bun.

You'll be calling a barmcake an English Muffin next

what is a danish pastry made of? bread-dough = bun

a currant bun is a bun - it's sticky. teacakes can be toasted - you can't toast a sticky bun, it'll burn.

i notice you miss out the hot cross bun. another 'utter nonsense?'

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

shall we discuss muffins?

 

[Badger Kitten]

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?

correct

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

correct

Incorrect.

It's a butterfly cake

See it's wings are shorter than a fairy's

 

[dilute micro]

CUP CAKE makes more sense than fairy cake since fairies don't exist.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Incorrect.

It's a butterfly cake

See it's wings are shorter than a fairy's

 

[Badger Kitten]

Butterfly cake what nonsense is this

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< goalposts

 

[Badger Kitten]

CAKE WAR

 

[EastEnder]

 

[kittyP]

i call fairy cakes fairy cakes and cupcakes cupcakes.

this.

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

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:

^^^ What they said

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?

We called them butterfly cakes.

 

[moose]

buns

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

buns

*expels bun supporters from thread*

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This needs a bump

 

[trashpony]

This needs a bump

 

[stuff_it]

i call fairy cakes fairy cakes and cupcakes cupcakes.

+1

Cupcakes: the cake bit is usually at least twice the size of a fairy cake sometimes bigger, and there is usually far too much icing. Often the icing has a stong flavour, very-fukoff-chocolatey and lemon both being quite popular.

Fairy Cakes: The cake bit is teeny tiny, and there is often far too little icing, but sometimes someone has taken the care to put wings on them and turn them into butterfly cakes. The icing bit is often a fairly plain flavour - sugar, water, or variations on this theme are popular, as is butter creme.

 

[spanglechick]

Hah - I ised exactly the same picture of a fairy cake to illustrate my point in both threads.