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!

I'm in Cornwall and cupcakes are buns with too much icing. I love icing but it never seems to be proper stuff on cupcakes, it tastes rank.

A bun is cake but in bun cases which is why they are called bun cases. Recipe is SR flour, stork, caster sugar and eggs. The number of oz of the rest of the ingredients is twice the number of eggs. If I am making a cake then I use the same recipe as if I'm making buns. It's all sponge.

scrambled you can buy cups for baking cup cakes

Scrambled - read the thread.
sponges don't have fat in them

i've got a cold you know.

give me a cup cake recipe.

give me a fairy cake recipe.

the proper fairy cake recipe (as seen in the Brownie Guide (the proper, not the new ones where girls don't do anything anymore) Handbook) is not the same as a Victoria Sandwich.

cupcakes follow the American recipes of having baking powder in them - I think as a general rule, they don't use self-raising flour in the US.

YABU!!! They're not buns!

I'll use this as an opportunity to show mine off that I got for my birthday today

how preeeedy

an entire website of bloody cupcakes

haha!

your page is private

Oh crap

It should work now ha

oooooh.
pweeeeedy.

nickle I want those catapillar ones on the link you posted. Too cute.

So nickel, can I just chek

A Vicotoria Sandwich has fat

A Victoria Sponge does not

Ta

Hang on a mo' - I've just googled Victoria Sponge cake recipes, and all of the top 5 results include butter in them. Genuinely . I know that stuff like genoese sponge doesn't contain fat, but I'm pretty sure that Victoria Sponge does (DGM was in WI, knew her Victoria sponge cake shizzle).

So what the bleeding heck is going on there then? Is there sandwich/sponge confusion?

PS I did read the thread, but I thought I'd tell you what professional cake baking lady said to me anyway. I have a few american friends too, and every one of them is most insistent that cupcakes are not the same as fairy cakes.

I've typed 'Sponge' far too much recently. It's starting to look wrong. And I'm pronouncing it 'spong' in my head...

I have to admit that this has rocked my world a bit. (in a bad way)

Exit - there's no such thing as a Victoria Sponge. Victoria Sandwich has fat.

stop teasing me.
i've got a cold and i'm poorly.

Scrambled - see earlier- they are wrong

sponge has no fat.
Victoria Sandwich is a creamed cake.

there is no such thing as a Victoria Sponge, it's just people getting the name of Victoria Sandwich wrong, and at the same time calling a creamed cake a sponge, which clearly it isn't.

Spong are a company that made the Corkette Cork extractor.

I called my chicken Cupcakes. A fox got her.

It's just another Americanism that they've tried to infiltrate our language with. What they call a cupcake is simply a larger fairycake smothered in too much butter icing. You have only to look at the average American to see what it does to them.

Has anyone seen this video

buns are not a northern thing. I am from the north and "buns" are bread rolls!

Is "sponge" the nasty tasteless stuff you put in the bottom of a trifle then?

Sorry, I think "fairy cake" sounds ridiculous. A cake for fairies?? Is it only for girls? Don't get it.

It's a cake in a cup, why is that annoying?

yeah i agree. What ever happened to the humble fairy cake?