To be fed up to the back teeth with CUPCAKES

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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.

Wasn't there a cupcake rage woman in the news recently?

Local bakery sold out of the flavour she liked so she trashed the shop in front of her three children and a queue of shocked pensioners? I think she hit the baker or dragged her about by her hair or something.

This one: www.metro.co.uk/news/857135-cupcake-rage-as-customer-trashes-shop-for-not-having-favourite-flavour

So glad I'm not the only one who thinks what you all think. I also hate the girlification of all things baking. I have 2 hungry sons (11 and 15) and a hungry husband, I bake cakes at least twice a week, eat hardly any of it, or I would be huge, yet the world is full of girlie cake decorations, pink cake cases, little girl cake batter mixture. Men and boys need cake more that we do! The boys find cupcakes sickly, but love fairy cakes as do all their friends of both genders.
So it's buns and fairy cakes for us.
Off to make scones to eat with the last of our clotted cream from Cornwall.........

Blowzy overblown 'cupcakes' must not be allowed to take over our small native buns and fairy cakes!
We almost have lost our red squirrels to the voracious N American Grey, American crayfish are devouring everything in our fresh waterways, and the Wimpy Bar Plastic Tomato has been replaced by the ready-ketchupped McDonalds Big Mac.
Buns of Britain - time to fight back!

Despite loving cupcakes, I really want a shirt now with a fairy cake and 'Buns of Britain: fight back' on it.

I want a bun fight

We still call them fairy cakes and the kids hate icing so they are plain and simple. Easy to make too. But I miss my mum's wonky old rock buns.

Also - jam tarts. We always used to make them. A small grey biscuits with a centre of kitchen floor fluff and grit which only Dad and Nan would eat.

They sell well at school fairs though because you can pile a load of sweets on top and no-one realises they taste crap. I tried making whoopie pies the other day and though they tasted nice, it took hours and I had about 12 bowls to clear up afterwards.

What a bunch of miserable gits some of you are!

I make cupcakes, yes cupcakes. (I make fairy cakes too, and buns, and sweet muffins, and brownies.) I make them because I enjoy doing it, and I give them to friends and family that I know will enjoy eating them.

While I agree to an extent that the "fashion" element of it is over the top, and that some of them can be very overpriced, I think it's pretty ridiculous to get het up over it. I mean, they're cakes! Just an innocent source of enjoyment. If you don't like them, don't eat them!

YANBU to be fed up with cupcakes.
YABVU to be so aggresively scathing about them, and those that like making them.

So I have to ask, do you lot get so angry at coffee shops?
Really, anyone can make coffee, but some are a bit fancier, or sweeter, and it costs more to buy them than to make them!
I don't understand how starting your own business (what ever it is) can be seen as anti-femminst.

OMG!! BibiBelle I know who you are!! You're the first person I've ever seen on here who I really know

Sorry, I'll leave now

And BibiBelle yours ARE THE BEST I've had!!!

Goddynuff - Now there, you see, you are wrong.

I'm old enough to remember Britain before the coffee revolution. You would not believe how hard it used to be to get a decent cup of coffee in Britain - in the lifetime of posters on here.
You pretty much had to go to delicatessens to buy real coffee in many parts of the country. And cafe-coffee was ... indescribable.

Whereas baking has not had to undergo quite such a revolution.

YANBU. Aren't they meant to be called fairy cakes in this frigging country anyway? Just as in this country a muffin is SUPPOSED to be a savoury bread like thing that you have your eggs benedict on. Not a big bloody fairy cake...

Seriously. It was easier to score good grade heroin.

Quintessential there was an interview with a couple who had started a cupcake bakery/cafe in Trondheim or wherever it was on Norge Rundt (I was at my parents, I swear) some time ago, so it seems there is something brewing. They still called them cupcakes, which I found odd. Nice Norwegian word, that. I've also been looking at bakery websites lately because my sister's getting married soon, and they all seem to make cupcakes on order.

I can't imagine what a cupcake of this kind would cost in Norway, if it can be £2-4 in UK

animula oh to be a whippersnapper!
Coffee was only an example, I just meant that many people start businesses that provide something we really could do for ourselves. I think there seems to be a backlash against women running businesses that don't "meet approval", iyswim?
And complaining about the way a woman is dressed (previous post, not yours) is shocking.
If there was a thread called 'Can I have a photo done wearing a dress' everyone would be saying a woman can dress how she likes. But apparently if she does, someone will hold it against her.

I love cake, any cake. You are all miserable hags.

I've always been disappointed by the commercial cupcakes I've had, but ones from friends and the (sneaky vegetable containing) ones I make myself are much nicer - and the icing only goes to the top of the case.

Shouldn't have read this thread - it's making me hungry!

What Pallymama said!

animula I do love a good cup of coffee