Cupcakes are not really for grown-ups are they?

[Chil1234]

Inspired by something I heard on Woman's Hour yesterday. They're everywhere. Overpriced, luridly coloured, sugary sweet glop in a paper case with a bit of dry old cake underneath are for children's parties, surely? Delicate patisseries or a decent scone with clotted cream for grown-ups, no?

IABU to be baffled by the craze?

[OTheHugeManatee]

Yes they are for grownups. They are !!!

[Desperateforthinnerthighs]

I just love the odd cupcake here and there and I am almost 40!!!! Why should they be for adults????? Pray tell, lol

[Topcat11]

Yabu!!! Cupcakes are yummy! Especially big chocolate ones covered in lots of chocolate glop!!!

[Desperateforthinnerthighs]

should they NOT be for adults..oops!

[Sn0wflake]

What????? Some cupcakes are fab.

I also like french patisserie and cream teas....but I suspect my son would too.

It's all good.

[KaraStarbuckThrace]

They're wasted on kids. Especially DS who hates icing

[Chil1234]

They're mostly icing. I thought we were meant to grow out of liking uber-sugary things as we got older and develop more sophisticated tastes.

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Oh the chocolate and Jack Daniels one with a little fizzy cola bottle on top that I had at a roller derby was definitely just for grown-ups. £2.50, was a bit steep but oh so definitely worth it.

[bamboobutton]

home made cupcakes are deeeelish, i'm having carrot ones for my birthday.

tried one my dsis bought back from a wedding and it dry, dry, dry. i had to choke it down.

[CrapMothertoaTeen]

"cupcakes" Fairy cakes? Should not be of any interest to anyone over the age of 15 imo.

[Bucharest]

It's the word itself that gives me the heebs.

It's just so very emperor's new clothes.

It's a bloody big bun, that's all.Cupcake makers have not reinvented the wheel.

PS, double chocolate with lumps of chocolate inside, I can nom with the rest of yers, but I will not call it a cupcake.

[Chil1234]

The more serious point in the WH item was whether things like the cup-cake fad are a product of innocent nostalgia or whether it could be a signal that modern women are - voluntarily or otherwise - being infantilised by patronising marketing.

[Sn0wflake]

What a load of wank....there just cakes and we like them.

[Desperateforthinnerthighs]

Chil I couldn't possibly say... I dont look too deeply into things....I see a nice cupcake, I am hungry and it looks yummy...I buy it

Sorry!

[Habbibu]

I don't get them at all, cakewise - they're very dull and over-sugary. And I'm a massive cake fan, it just strikes me there are so many lovelier and more interesting cakes around. It is a weird fad.

[Rosedee]

Yabu. Totally u.

[AuntieMaggie]

Yummy - we have a couple of coffee shops near work that do really nice cupcakes :)

[oh4goodnesssake]

It's that whole "Sex and the City/handbags and shoes are all a girl needs/let's go shopping and then eat cupcakes" thing that gets my goat. I'm sure we never used to have women like that.

[yousankmybattleship]

YANBU - they are over-priced, over-sugary and everywhere.

[mamasmissionimpossible]

I'm not a fan of cupcakes. I have a massive sweet tooth and they are too sugary for me. A nice big slice of victoria sponge for me, please, yum!

[BettyCash]

YANBU. Infantilism.

[loveulotslikejellytots]

YABU. Cupcakes are lovely. We had them as our wedding cake last year. I thought they looked nice and (at the time) were different to the norm.

But then again i'm not fussed... cake is cake... it should all be eaten with a large mug of

[changeforthebetter]

Oooh they are my pet loathing. I love buns and cakes but what mascarades as a cupcake here is overpriced nonsense. I was in a cafe yesterday where they were selling for £1.60 each. That is ludicrous for a fairy cake with aspirational delusions. I hate too much icing anyway. I am sure if they are freshly made, delicately flavoured etc (as perhaps for a wedding) then they are perfectly nice. Mind you, they don't annoy me as much as girls/women carrying bags WAG-stylee over the forearm with the Starbucks coffee in the other. Too many copies of Heat not enough Women's Room

[poopnscoop]

I put cupcakes/fairycakes (along with good things too like a multigrain ham lettuce sandwich and dried apple too, promise!) in DH's lunchbox everyday

He loves it!