To HATE the word cupcake?!

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What's with the use of the word 'cupcake' everywhere now?! It's not a cupcake. It's a fecking bun. With fancy icing on it.
Sorry, just needed to get that off my chest!

YANBU. They are fairy cakes. Bun is better than cupcake but I think of a bun as cooked directly on a tray without a cake case.

Nope it is not a bun, definitely not. It might be a big fairy cake with icing though.

I hate cupcake culture. I hate being called 'cupcake' more than anything.

A rock cake would be classed as a bun - anything baked directly on the tray like tudor said.

I hate it too, and I hate cupcakes. I want really good cake, mmmm what shall I make date and walnut or banana ?

Neither, the only good cake is lemon drizzle or chocolate.

Not a bun. Not a fairy cake. A cupcake.

And when done correctly, i.e. really good cake and not too much frosting, they are wonderful little bits of cake.

The way they are done most places is a crime against cake!

OK, I can accept fairy cakes, I sometimes call them that. Although we still usually call them buns here (North)

But cupcakes aren't fairy cakes - more's the pity. Neither are they iced buns.

Instead, they are a ridiculous and usually tasteless craze that has spawned umpteen non-businesses and done nothing to encourage the enjoyment of decent, ordinary cake.

Fairy cakes are when you slice the top off, cut the resulting sponge disc into two and stick the two half-discs of sponge into a blob of buttercream icing so it looks like two bits of slightly stale sponge stuck in buttercream little wings.

Fairy cakes are a subset of cupcakes, not the other way round

lemon drizzle ofcourse, thanks valium

flyover ooh make banana cake [smile} drools

No, fairy cakes are not where you slice the top off - that is a butterfly cake.

Sorry Tee, but its a pet hate when people respond to my loathing of everything cupcakey by saying "well you just haven't had a proper one"... I DON'T LIKE THE CHINTZY FUCKERS! Okay?

aldi that's only because you haven't had a good one yet

Meh

Fairy cakes are when you slice the top off, cut the resulting sponge disc into two and stick the two half-discs of sponge into a blob of buttercream icing so it looks like two bits of slightly stale sponge stuck in buttercream little wings.

Without wishing to be confrontational, these are not fairy cakes either. They are Butterfly Cakes and bloomin' lovely too!

Fairy cakes are simple, plain sponge cakes with a light covering of icing - this can be plain or flavoured. At school fetes, you can rely on this icing being vair wonky and covered in hundreds of thousands

PS. They come in little paper cases. Fairy cakes, that is. Usually the icing runs over the casing too.

Ahem! I said that already Pandemoniaa

YANBU!

I can't stand the over-priced, over-iced, swirly, pastel coloured little shitcakes either!

Every time I see an advert for Cupcake Workshops it makes me irrationally angry. A workshop? For putting icing in a fairy cake?! WTAF?

And I hate all the cupcake motifs on bags, cushions, notebooks, cards. All of it!

Yup, that's a Butterfly Cake.

I don't really like cupcake, but in my head it's like a bigger, fancier fairy cake. Like the size of a muffin.

Certainly not a bun.

Butterfly cakes.......... with the top cut off and in half and stuck in buttercream.......like butterfly wings, not fairy cakes.

They're buns in our house. Isn't cupcake an American term?

yeah they're totally buns or just cakes. The cupcake movement thinks it invented cake! Twee as fuck.

Butterfly cakes are as valiumredhead describes. Fairy cakes are sponges with a small amount of icing on top and maybe some hundreds and thousands.

I do not like today's cupcakes, they are dry sponge with too much sickly buttercream icing on top. And they cost £2.50 each.

In my day cupcakes came in a box of six from Sainsburys, they had foil cases and chewy chocolate fondant topping, or lemon or orange if you were lucky.