To be fed up to the back teeth with CUPCAKES

[HengshanRoad]

Stupid, pathetic, too-sweet, overrated, overpriced fucking CUPCAKES.

They're everywhere. Apparently "whoopee pies" were supposed to overtake them, but that hasn't happened.

Why is a "cupcake business" the activity of choice for women these days? And why do said businesses always have such twee names?

Jenny Colgan's new book is even devoted to the blighters.

Probably been done to death already, but I needed to vent.

Whoopee pies? Sounds like something to tell the doctor!

It is such a namby-pamby dressed little shivering dog in a handbag fashion - it makes me irritated too. I love sweet things and I find them too much. £5 for six at Waitrose. Never mind cake, that is taking the biscuit!

OP, YANBU.

Punkatheart "such a namby-pamby dressed little shivering dog in a handbag fashion "

Brilliant. Sums it up perfectly. I can see those annoying handbags containing a dog and one cupcake, yellow I reckon, covered with cloying "frosting" - which, incidentally, is not frosty, it's soft!!! :o

Even more irritating than the actual cakes (refuse to call them cupcakes) are the people making them who think they've reinvented the wheel. So you like making buns? And????? We made small cakes in the first week of domestic science when I was 11. Meh.

All very Emperor's New Clothes.

I agree. Though my friend has a cake business making wedding/event cakes and hers are immense. She's been doing it for years though and hasn't just decided to jump on the 'stupid cake' bandwaggon. Half the other ones I've tried look nice and taste crap.

My SIL frrequently makes cupcakes... tells you all you need to know about her!

YANBU... There are far nicer-tasting, far more sophisticated cakes. Cupcakes and fairy cakes larded with luridly-coloured icing are a children's party item. The fad for making and buying them is a sickly sweet mix of misty-eyed nostalgia & a disturbing reluctance to grow up. What's the MN mantra? 'This too shall pass'

I love cupcakes

I think they're pretty, and the chocolate cupcake I ate this week (with glittery vanilla chocolate frosting) was devine. I've never bought a cupcake though - way too pricey!

I like them too, especially mocha ones. Am waiting patiently to try the pimms ones my friend is making next week.

Don't much care if they are fashionable or irritating or passe, they taste good. :)

Until recently they were called fairy cakes and were thought to be a pretty unexciting cake to have. Some look beautiful - but there are much no=icer cakes to eat taste wise. YANBU.

Yup and they're called buns where I'm from, fairy cakes are posh buns with icing

yabu. I like cupcakes. Buttercream is so much nicer than normal icing.

The frosting is harder than it looks IME.

Yes, I'm a "bun" lass too.

I do make them, cos they are dead easy - esp as I never seem to have biscuits in the house. I don't stick icing on etc. They don't need it when they're still warm from the oven.... mmm

But sickly pink, mini-mountain cupcakes do my head in too so YANBU.

I made some muffins for a recent school-do...and most of the other parents did sickly looking cupcakes with too many decorations.

You know how they end up looking a bit grubby or something? Too much handing.

Everyone went for my un-iced muffins which were mixed with chopped strawberries.

YANBU. We're a nation of plain and fruity cake lovers....lemon, orange, choc.....not whirly, twirly, icey-nicey crap.

Yanbu! They are bloody everywhere and so annoying

Give me a fairy cake any day!

YANBU
the icing to cake ratio is far too high, as the only way you can get that pretty swirly look is to pile it on. i prefer a nice rustic carrot cake meself.

YABU!!
Any trend that encourages cake is good imo!
I make cupcakes as a business but also make celebration cakes too and they are delicious. The frosting:cake ratio is just right.
Yum!
However whilst reading this i am eating a whoopie pie i made last night and they are equally yummy.

If you make your own you don't need to do the pile it high - you can set your own ratio of cake to icing. Agree that the US trend for cupcakes has way too much icing - says he who has just been perusing his latest Humminbird bakery cookbook purchase - lots of interesting flavours but you can cut the topping ingedients almost by half.

Usually we make in muffin cases so we call them iced muffins - to big for fairy cakes .

Will be having a go at Whoopie pies very soon...

YANBU all style, no substance. They look great but taste vile, waaaaaayyy too sweet with bland sponge. Give me a traditional coffee and walnut cake any day.

YABU well sort of - bought ones are over priced but i enjoy making cupcakes/buns. I like the way you can make a small batch of 6 and cater to more peoples tastes. plus i find decorating a small single cupcake so much easier than a whole big one.

This weekend i made 2 big batches for the 2 parties we attended, flavours included orange chocolate, white chocolate suprise, raspberry cake with blueberry cream cheese frosting, triple lemon and vanilla.

I remember the days when a bun was a bun. When did they become "cupcakes"?

i agree they are fucking shite and naff

revolting

and I'm not just saying that because I'm a bitter and jealous coeliac

we call them (or their more buttoned-up cousins) fairy cakes. A bun is a bread roll (vaguely northern)

I've never seen a fancy pants one . There is a person somwhere further up this board advertising her business of cupcakes with pennants requesting her sister's services as a bridesmaid.