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!

It doesn't mean they are right

and you all argued about it when i wasn't here to defend myself!!

that's against the MN Rules, you know :P

What? Netmums calls a cake with butter a sponge!

Oh sorry, I get it now Ha ha haha they are right though

You're just pissy because scrambled is right!

no, i'm right.

this is the only thing I know

It's ok, there there have a cake and calm down, here I have made a lemon SPONGE, the recipe is easy, would you like it? 8oz of sugar and the same BUTTER...

Snort!!

I had always thought Victoria sponges were made with fatless sponges (tautology!). Nowadays it seems anything goes so had begun doubting myself. Happier now I know at it isn't just me.

YANBU. I don't do cupcakes. They are big and have ghastly amounts of 'frosting' on. Fairy cakes are dainty little things, with a hint of icing and sprinkles if the kids are lucky find them in the cupboard

They are called cupcakes because American recipes really measured in cups.

Although I'm a bit anti American cupcakes I'm completely pro squidgy, rich American chocolate brownies!

They have to be home made though, the dried out bits of timber that pass for brownies in coffee shops is an absolute scandal. A SCANDAL I say.

seconds squoosh

And adds special mention to the lovely American lady who taught my mum how to make proper squidgy carrot cake.

But without the horrible yuck smeared on top.

Points off for the smeared muck.

Down with "healthy" versions with less or even no oil. They are not carrot cake. They are carrot smattered cardboard.

MrsGWay - if they were V sponges, then, yes, you'd be right.

but they're not called sponges, they're called Sandwiches (so you're right anyway)

our local baker doe a proper yummy carrot cake - really juicy

How can anyone make a carrot cake wihout oil! Off with their silly heads.

Carrot cake needs oil and I hate cream cheese frosting crap on the top too!

Oh I'm deeply in love with carrot cake's showy cream cheese topping. Deeply.

I hate the word frosting more than I hate the word cupcake!

Yeah it's ICING not frosting!

How can anyone make a carrot cake wihout oil!

For some sacrilege is but a cake shaped joke to play on an unsuspecting mouth.

oh and I never put oil in my carrot cake and it's bloody lovely

Yeah it's ICING not frosting!

NO!

It is "smeared on shite".

Let's not put lipstick on pig here people !!

It's sugary, lemony, cream cheese. What's not to love? I'd nibble Bruce Foryth if he was covered in carrot cake icing.

Good cupcakes are lovely. I've had ones that are just as good as any other cake, only in a manageable individual portion. They're useful for parties and so on as a result. I make a hummingbird one that's basically a very moist banana and pineapple cake, with cream cheese icing.

The ones you get from most bakeries are disgusting, though. Sickly sweet and too much icing for the cake. But that's a bad cake problem. A decent cupcake is just a small cake. No more, no less. It isn't the fault of the food that people are so ridiculously twee over them.

I always think of a bun as one of those amazing, shiny-topped things. Hot cross buns, currant buns, iced buns. I wish they were easier to find. Well made ones, I mean. Old fashioned bakeries have died a death with supermarket dominance, I think. It makes me sad.

Oh, and Australian chocolate mud cake goes really well in a cupcake size, too. The only icing I use there is chocolate ganache, which is basically chocolate truffle swiped all over the top of a very moist, slightly alcoholic, bitter chocolate cake. Who gives a fark whether it's individual portions or one big cake? It tastes the same.