Fairy Cake or Cupcake - what do you call yours?

[tarannau]

It's totally untrue though - a fairy cake is just an individual cake.

FWIW folks around the West Indies tend to use US baking ingredients and supplies, possibly cupcake moulds and the like, but will switch between cupcake and fairy cake dependent on their location. They're effectively identical and the idea that fairy cakes were always the same size is utterly false - there were plenty of deeper variations of Fairy Cakes' even in 70s London.

 

[toblerone3]

No-one's mentioned baps, don't they sometimes get confused with buns especially when they have icing on them.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Got in before Pogofish did

 

[susie12]

Whatever. I am totally bored with cupcakes, everyone and his wife seems to opening a bloody cupcake business round here and they are all very, very expensive and twee.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Poll following shortly

Your poll is pretty comprehensive, but it missed out on 'I'm neither from the US nor the UK, but I call them cupcakes.'

People in India, for instance, might call them cupcakes. They have no option on the poll either.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Your poll is pretty comprehensive, but it missed out on 'I'm neither from the US nor the UK, but I call them cupcakes.'

People in India, for instance, might call them cupcakes. They have no option on the poll either.

Don't you know the ROTW is irrelevant?

 

[Dr. Furface]

I just call em cakes, but 'er indoors calls them buns!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Don't you know the ROTW is irrelevant?

Come again?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Come again?

Rest of the World. That means YOU Johnny

 

[EastEnder]

Canada is little more than a suburb of America anyway.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Rest of the World. That means YOU Johnny

Trust the british to have an acronym like that.

 

[bi0boy]

I call fairy cakes fairy cakes and cup cakes cup cakes.

@ poll

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Plus, your poll options 5 and 6 seem to contemplate the ROTW; they just don't cover all the choices.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Plus, your poll options 5 and 6 seem to contemplate the ROTW; they just don't cover all the choices.

You're quite right. However, as the poll is too old, I can't change it, so tough!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You're quite right. However, as the poll is too old, I can't change it, so tough!

Tbh, I'd never heard of a fairy cake before this thread. Or the other one, I mean.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Tbh, I'd never heard of a fairy cake before this thread. Or the other one, I mean.

The other what? Other thread or other cake (ie. butterfly cake)?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The other what? Other thread or other cake (ie. butterfly cake)?

Thread. Never heard of a butterfly cake either.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Thread. Never heard of a butterfly cake either.

Confusingly, butterfly cakes are also known as fairy cakes to some people

 

[RaverDrew]

When my mate got nicked for shoplifting cupcakes, the police recorded it as "fairy cakes" in the report fwiw.

 

[pogofish]

Has anyone mentioned that these could also be covered by the Scottish term - "funcy piece"

I think I may have to go and buy some on the way home.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

When my mate got nicked for shoplifting cupcakes, the police recorded it as "fairy cakes" in the report fwiw.

Excellent

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Has anyone mentioned that these could also be covered by the Scottish term - "funcy piece"

Is that safe for work to google?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Funcy Pieces

 

[pogofish]

Probably but don't blame me if you do get a surprise.

 

[pogofish]

Where is that shop?

Actually the cafe I'm in now has a load of glittering multi-coloured fairy cakes on one side of the counter & portugese tarts on the other but at 2 qiud each, I think I'll wait!

 

[stuff_it]

No-one's mentioned baps, don't they sometimes get confused with buns especially when they have icing on them.

Barms/Barm Cakes, etc as well - almost could do with another poll......

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Where is that shop?

Actually the cafe I'm in now has a load of glittering multi-coloured fairy cakes on one side of the counter & portugese tarts on the other but at 2 qiud each, I think I'll wait!

I'm guessing Aberdeen by the postcode

http://www.qype.co.uk/place/1605233-Funcy-Pieces-Rhynie

 

[pogofish]

We have already done the barm/barm cakes thing IIRC and here, baps (foodwise anyway) are a floory bun. Sweet iced buns are something else.

 

[pogofish]

Ahh no its Rhynie, a small town @25 miles away - Thought I recognised it as I've prob been in there but when it had a different name - Rhynie is also where I get my goat socks from & one of the places I go fishing is about two miles away.

 

[moose]

Buns buns buns buns buns