To HATE the word cupcake?!

[cupofteaandasliceofcake]

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!

FFS Squuosh that's nt encouraging is it. Hollands as synonymous with the tulip as sWitzerland is with chocolate and dodgy sweaters. It does NOT bode well for us bumping off the FCCISI (fairy cake covered in sickly icing) anytime soon.

Nickel woah there lady. No one argues with St Delia.

In yorkshire they are buns

They are in Lancashire too, Isabelle. (Something we can finally agree on? )

I suppose you can't charge as much for buns though

Ok - now I am completely confused.

I use Mary's Victoria whatever recipe to make birthday cakes. They are fabulous. I don't care what you call them.

I also make a fat free fruit cake.

In fact, can we just call it all cake and be done with it.

nickel, you seem to know about these things, swiss roll sponge doesn't contain fat does it?

I love swiss roll sponge.

swiss roll sponge does not contain fat, you are correct.

It's a yummy, healthy cake (until you put the jam in! but that's fruit, so it's good for you)

God I love a Swiss Roll, a proper one that's full to bursting with fresh cream.

Enjoy - she doesn't know like i do [hiss]

Exit - so do I. (Sandwich)
It's the only cake I can make without error (perfect every time!), so i've become the expert on it.
can't make sponges to save my life, they fall and become very hard and solid.

They look like buns to me.

Fairly cakes are what the other kids had. My mum comes from Sheffield and we called them buns UNLESS! they had "wings". Those were butterfly fairy cakes.

What people call cupcakes look like "buns on steroids" to me. Do not like the word cupcake.

Nor do I like the creeping in of the word "gross".

I hear one "awesome" and I'm going to be reaching for pitchfork.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/victoriasponge_13555

don't even get me started on the bloody Good Food Magazine and them calling it a sponge!

I wrote to them to tell them they were wrong

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge_cake

notice their small s - so it's a Victoria sponge, is it?
why would it be when it's clearly a Victoria Sandwich, with capitals because it's a name not a boring old general noun.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Génoise_cake

Fat in this recipe.

yanbu. I love them though whatever you call them.

so the wiki description tells you what a sponge is:
Sponge cake is a cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder which has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to a sea sponge. A sponge cake may be produced by either the batter method, or the foam method.

then gives you a recipe with fat in?

they obviously didn't think that one through, did they.....

Ooooh it's getting heated in here. I love a slice of Victoria S...s....ss..ssss

Oh can't be bother now - I just want a big fat slice of CAKE

and it's not a Victoria sponge.

the name of the cake is Victoria Sandwich.

if it says sponge, it's wrong. that's not what the cake is called!

valium , if i didn't know you better i'd say you were deliberately teasing me

You see, I don't think there is current a demise in traditional cake. I think there is a massive massive revival in home baking at the moment, good ingredients, local recipes etc, and some of this is being driven by cupcake mania - people start with cupcakes or go to a decorating class, then maybe watch GBBO & start to try other things.

And I don't see it as "back to the kitchen" 1950s housewifery. It is simply making some skills such as cooking and baking more important again.

What I do find a bizarre throwback to 1950s housewifery is how people get obsessed with how often others change their sheets or clean behind the fridge and actually boast about what good little wifeys they are while simultaneously moaning that men are useless and can't do anything around the house.

I don't find this boasting anywhere other than Mumsnet.

I've never come across 'buns' for cakes in real life, only in Enid Blyton books and I'm from further north than Yorkshire. Even in EB I thought they meant iced buns - slightly sweet bread with icing on top. So i declare myself against any characterisation of a homogenous 'north'!

We had cupcakes and butterfly cakes but that's because of north American parents. I like them. I don't like what Britain has done to the muffin, making it too sweet, like a big uniced cupcake, and not full of bran, cinnamon, raisins and suitable for breakfast, as it should be.

Ha ha ha ha ha nickel

Go and make me some cake nickel please, make both sorts and I will tell you which one I like best!

I WANT SOME CAKE - damn this thread!

i guarantee you'll prefer the creamed cake.

i want cake too.

damn this thread too