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?

Yes they are for grownups. They are !!!

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

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

should they NOT be for adults..oops!

What????? Some cupcakes are fab.

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

It's all good.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Yabu. Totally u.

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

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.

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

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!

YANBU. Infantilism.

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

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

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!