that a muffin is not a cake?

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I was after something fattening, and DH was off to the shops, so I requested a "rich decadent slice of cake". He jokingly said "so carrot cake then?" and was corrected with suggestions like "black forest gateaux" and "chocolate mouse cake". He promptly returned with a double chocolate muffin and does not understand why I am miffed? AIBU

Its not a really different baking technique. You mix the ingredients and shove them in the oven. It's like claiming fruit cake can't be a cake because its not made the same as a sponge.

But anyhow... OP, don't be an ungrateful moo

@Chippy - that has his reasoning on getting the muffin - he didn't want to buy a whole cake apparently. He was thinking of me...

yanbu

• those double chocolate muffins are horrid !

I'd have been disapointed too - they would be the absolute last choice - the sort of cake( or not !) version of garage flowers !

We'll have the muffin if you don't want it?

Muffins are a bread (you don't need yeast to make a bread or indeed any leavening agent), but you should really have been clearer, as many other cakes are bread too - the gateaux probably, the rodent cake probably not although I'm not completely sure of the ingredients of that one.

Still YANBU, a muffin is certainly not decadent, so didn't meet your description.

And yes you can buy single or double slices of cakes in most supermarkets these days, so he was pretty crap for not finding them.

YADNBU!! A muffin is not a lovely, yummy cake. A muffin is a stupid muffin and often not very chocolatey and quite disappointing. I'd have liked an almond slice, you know the sort with jam in, is that a cake?

Muffins are not cakes, they are American breakfast food and significantly less rich or sweet (e.g. bran muffins), that we've misunderstood and mutated into half-muffin half-cakes, poor things.

I understand your disappointment, though can sympathise with the confusion, as British choc muffins are quite rich. I think perhaps the word 'gooey' might have helped.

I had a muffin in the USA once. Crap.

Are you talking about what we in England call a muffin, or what Americans call an English Muffin, which is quite different?

A muffin is not a cake. It is an oily bun.

I made a chocoalte tort the other day. No flour at all but 200g of 70% chocolate, 200g of ground almonds, 200g of ground hazelnuts, pack of butter, eggs.

Now that is a cake.

YABU.
A muffin is a type of cake IMO - it has the taste and texture of a sponge cake. I have a recipe book that just has recipes for muffins and cupcakes so the author obviously thinks they belong to the same family.

I feel sorry for your poor OH. I would be miffed at your ungratefulness as well. You need to be more specific next time.

YABU, A muffin is a cake and a double chocolate one is very yummy,

YABU, muffin is a tiny cake. Often too dry, unfortunately.

YANBU.

A muffin is definately not a cake, it is most definately a bread item that you eat either as a sandwich or dunked in soup.

Yes I am from the NW - I once had to explain what an oven bottom muffin was to an American who had no concept of muffins other than English Muffins which bear little resemblance to proper muffins.

However, seeing as you seem to be talking about double chocolate muffins, then YABU as they are a cake, merely not as decadent as you would have liked.

In manchester a muffin is a bread barmcake :)

What is a barm?

BARMCAKE

what I'd call a soft roll

They have different names all over the country.

In Manchester if you ask for a sausage muffin or an egg muffin you get a barmcake/soft roll.

what I call a muffin

OK,is that a crumpet?

nah, crumpet is baked in a ring on a tray, and has holes in the top

though some would disagree

We have tea cakes with currants in that sometimes get called muffins.

This breadlingo is more widespread than I thought.

LOL@Sid James the comedy god :)