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!

Whispers....fairy cakes are not too much higher than the paper cases and have water icing drizzled over them and hundreds of thousands.Also little silver ballies, only for parties .A recipe for a Victoria sponge makes 2dozen.Water icing is water, icing sugar and colouring.Cupcakes for decoration only as too sickly!!Caveat,cannot actually bake myself,but donkeys' years of memories.

someone hasn't read the thread

sandwich.

Buns buns buns (am from East Yorkshire) Always a Victoria sandwich mix. Sometimes they are buns with buttercream and sprinkles, sometimes they have water icing and some times they are butterfly buns
but they are always BUNS

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

Come to my corner of rural Northern Italy. Tis rampant. My main issue is that I can't even compete in the housewife olympics. Cos I don't have an "ironing system" that looks like NASA designed it. Maybe I shouldn't mind but I am quite envious of people who make domestic science look like a cake walk that they do while juggling a million other things. Don't want a pinny shaped medal, but would like not to feel so ...deficient.

I can make a bun though. As long as you don't mind burnt bottoms. I don't understand why EVERYTHING I bake has to have it's bum sacrficed for the sake of the middle being cooked. I follow the instructions to the letter. Even changed my oven when the old one died to another make.

Same problem.

There there nickel calm down, easy now

Try cooking at a lower temperature but for longer Su?

nickiminja understands

I prefer fou-fou..

Nick doesn't understand, don't kid yourself nickel - she just called butterfly cakes BUNS !!

I'm from N. Ireland and IMO a cupcake is a bun with too much icing.

As a complete aside I have just been in town and seen a kiosk selling YORKSHIRE PUDDING WRAPS! What the feck is that all about? Thick flat pudding pancake things with beef and gravy rolled up! Bleeding travesty!

BUTTERFY BUNS BUTTERFLY BUNS BUTTERFLY BUNS

But it's a cake, in a "cup", cupcake makes sense!

valiumredhead

There's a thought! Say 20 degrees less and play the extra time by ear ?

Or foil shiney side downward facing under my greasproof paper ? To "insulate" the bottom a bit more ?

I have to make an apple cake today, will try both cunning plans at the same time.

Oh God, my ds would LOVE that, Yorkshire puts are his favourite food in the entire world! If I told you how many he polished off on Sunday you would be calling the SS!

that w as weird, i admit.
i washed over it because she put Sandwich in bold.

Su I tend to cook everything at a lower temp to accommodate the difference in ovens. Hope it works!

YORKSHIRE PUDDING WRAPS

I can hear GGM and GM whizzing round in their graves like the clappers.

Yorskhire pudding wraps sound amazing. There are few things better than a good Yorkshire pud.

They are called cupcakes because the ingredients used to be measured in cups (American), so the ingredients were measured by volume in a cup rather than being weighed with scales. Hence cupcakes.

Sorry Nickel,your last nerves....in Africa all fancy cakes,choc,grenadilla,Swiss roll,Madeira,trifle cake,Victoria,have the sponge word added...but what do we know...things change when adopted by other cultures,so maybe same happened to cupcakes?

Sounds like you are a bit jealous and bitter about women having cupcake businesses, OP. I've seen that attitude on here "Oh you aren't a proper businesswoman like me as you are only make a few cakes". Not doing proper (dull) things like accountancy...

No, not in the slightest, you couldn't be further from the truth! I think people who set up their own businesses are great, and making cakes and buns is as much a business as other stuff.
In fact, I wouldn't mind making buns myself as a business, as I love it.
I'd just call them BUNS though, none of the cupcake nonsense!

I know an american lady who makes cupcakes (as well as other amazing sweet and savoury treats) and she told me that cupcakes are different to fairy cakes and other sponges because the moisture content is greater. There's more fat/liquid in them in relation to sponges. Sponges are meant to be equal parts flour/egg/fat, right? And apparently the name comes from the fact that they were originally baked in small cups, although I don't know how they managed to do that without the cups cracking in the heat

Anyway, I don't like what seems to pass for cupcakes in the UK much as they seem to be more about the incredibly poncey decoration ffs edible glitter?! than the taste, but I love this lady's cupcakes. Hers aren't technicolour and strange tasting, she makes buttercream icing using seasonal fruits and the cupcakes actually taste of what they're supposed to.

they are buns to me too cupoftea

cupcake makes me irrationally mad