Ms Cupcake arrives on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
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Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
I imagine she's using it as a base for her existing business, which was mail order, I think.
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
I ate a whole McVities Jamaica Ginger cake yesterday.
Now have the shits, just splattered all over the seat and bowl.
Thanks for sharing that....
toblerone3
Grrrrr
I ate a whole McVities Jamaica Ginger cake yesterday.
Now have the shits, just splattered all over the seat and bowl.
Now get the brush and clean it up. Think of the next person to use the toilet.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I agree with all od these and so dpoes may Dad wpo gets irrationally angry at the mention of the word cupcakes
I did, however, once make some cupcakes - lots of palavar with sugar syrupI seem to remember - for Mr. QofG's who did enjoy them but not as much as he liked butterfly buns, with buttercream of course, so now I stick to those as they are much easier to make!
However as for Ms. Cupcake's cupcakes good luck to her and I may buy one if in Brixton but not if they cost £2.50 each. I want real cream and lard for that!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
They cost about 20 to 50 pence each to make (although I'm estimating what I would spend including free-range eggs and butter) depending on how elaborate the decoration is and whether you use cheapo cake cases or the more expensive foiled ones.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
£2.00 would be the upper limit for me, for a cupcake at least, maybe £2.50 to £3.50 for a cream slice or chocolate gateau (this is solely based on my liking for cream slices etc..above cupcakes rather than based on any idea of costs, skill in making etc..
). However that would be sit-down prices, takeaway and I would want to pay a bit less.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
how is it even possible to make vegan cake? Cake needs butter and eggs.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Only really at parties, editor. The kids at my school go mainly for chips, crisps and fizzy drink when they go out to buy food. I've only ever seen female staff buy cake.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I am glad to see not much has changed in the last 30 years *remembers lunchtime trips into town*
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
I think they look great 
I don't know the area but if they had one in the centre of town here I could see it doing very well.
I don't know the area but if they had one in the centre of town here I could see it doing very well.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
A review on the internet says they are quite big (fist-sized!) which I whole heartedly applaud.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
fuxxake - a fairy cake is not the same as a cupcake - before the icing gets anywhere near it .
This is a fairy cake:
Note, the actual cake part is not very tall in relation to the diameter. Also see the pronounced angle between the bottom and the top of the case. A fairy cake is two bites for most people. Three if you're trying to impress future in-laws or something.
These are cupcakes (un-iced, for clarity):
see how they are much taller and more substantial? how the angle of the sides is less pronounced? I probably *could* eat one of these in two bites, but it wouldn't be pretty.
Will this shop succeed? maybe - i think the vegan thing might be an issue. never had a truly yummy vegan cake, and buttercream icing is very dependant on the taste of butter, surely..?
a non-vegan cupcake shop might do well. They're very pretty - buying a box to take to a friend who's just had a baby, or if you were visiting someone for coffee... it's mostly about the 'ahh' factor when you open the box. Even if you do scrape off some of the icing. At about £2 each they're an affordable indulgence for a lot of people (significantly less than a pint), and small kids will go nuts for them.
I don't like her poster. The lovely fifties font needs to be carried through as a visual concept: the hot pink and those particular lipstick kisses are both a bit eighties-does-fifties.
.This is a fairy cake:
Note, the actual cake part is not very tall in relation to the diameter. Also see the pronounced angle between the bottom and the top of the case. A fairy cake is two bites for most people. Three if you're trying to impress future in-laws or something.
These are cupcakes (un-iced, for clarity):
see how they are much taller and more substantial? how the angle of the sides is less pronounced? I probably *could* eat one of these in two bites, but it wouldn't be pretty.
Will this shop succeed? maybe - i think the vegan thing might be an issue. never had a truly yummy vegan cake, and buttercream icing is very dependant on the taste of butter, surely..?
a non-vegan cupcake shop might do well. They're very pretty - buying a box to take to a friend who's just had a baby, or if you were visiting someone for coffee... it's mostly about the 'ahh' factor when you open the box. Even if you do scrape off some of the icing. At about £2 each they're an affordable indulgence for a lot of people (significantly less than a pint), and small kids will go nuts for them.
I don't like her poster. The lovely fifties font needs to be carried through as a visual concept: the hot pink and those particular lipstick kisses are both a bit eighties-does-fifties.
Schoolkids? I think I'd have been lynched for carrying a pink buttercream fairy cake to Dick Sheppard, let alone want to spend the same as one fried chicken meal on one of the bastards.
I really doubt schoolkids will be much of a market around here, public schools excepted.
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
Yaffle in Derby charges £1.50 for a Vegan cupcake, which is about at the top end of my price tolerance range. I tend to buy the odd one as a treat, as they are worth the money. But I'm not sure I'd pay much more, however nice the cake.
If they are, she'd best be pretty confident at dealing with a shop full of 13/14/15 yr olds.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
not in my neck of the woods they didn't. paper cases only came in one size in supermarkets and corner shops and they are what determine the shape and size of the case. I'd be amazed if many brits were making big cupcakes in the seventies/early eighties and calling them fairy cakes.
Cupcakes aren't a marketing invention. In the states, they made individual iced sponge cakes too, but they were bigger and they called them cupcakes. when someone thought it would be a good idea to bring the bigger iced cake to the uk, they didn't call them fairy cakes - because fairy cakes are much smaller - they called them cupcakes, because that's what they were called where they came from.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
re: fairy cakes, i always thought they had to have 'wings'
butterfly cakes.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Fairy cake just means an individual cake ime, no more than that ime. I seem to remember all kinds of toppings, from straight up icing to buttercream, hundreds and thousands through to those weird jellied orange and lemon segments.
FWIW, after living too close to NA really, hefty chunks of my family switch between the two words dependent on location. And larger 'cupcake'/fairy cake cases were widely available in the past - it's something we were always able to source in London
FWIW, after living too close to NA really, hefty chunks of my family switch between the two words dependent on location. And larger 'cupcake'/fairy cake cases were widely available in the past - it's something we were always able to source in London
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