to feel slightly disgruntled?

[BillysBeastlyBogeyman]

I think I am tbh.

My friend has started making cupcakes.

She has been really working on her business, she had got some wedding orders etc. Good for her I thought.

So I wanted to support her and wanted to try the lovely cupcakes, even though I'm not a particular fan. But cake is cake

So I ordered a box off her, £6 for 4. Bit pricey but I would be getting some nice cake, dc will love them.

So hand over my cash, beautiful box with fancy cakes in. Got them home and they are the tiniest sponge cakes ever with a shitload of icing on. They are microscopic! Literally the smallest little holder ever only half full of rather dense sponge

Six bleeding quid they cost me. Six quid That could have bought me multiple packets of Revels

Custard powder in the sponge? What is this! Sounds very interesting

The lemon drizzle cakes sound amazing...

Way to small!

Think of it as taking her out for a coffee in terms of the cash. Disappointing though. I bought some of the v pretty looking cupcakes in waitrose for my team last week. They were disappointing too.
Cake should never disappoint,it is in fact illegal.

BadgersBottom spelt is NOT suitable for people with gluten intolerance!

Yes it is lamazeroo. It is naturally very low in gluten. My SIL and her DC are all gluten intolerant (NOT coeliac) and can eat spelt flour with no problems.

50p sized cakes are a con at 4 for £6, I'd have been a bit peed off by that too, to be greedily honest

Badgersbottom spelt flour isn't suitable for ceoliacs.

Well, if you have to spend £6 on a friend's business, better food than something "decorative" she'd check your house for every time she visited. The cakes are now gone. It's not some shabby chic tat hanging around!

I've seen cupcakes on sale for £3 each in London! SHOCKING! I'm sure they aren't the most expensive either!

TheBigJessie - that really made me laugh!

Joining posters before me, spelt is not suitable for gluten intolerant people. Some might get away with it, but it is not gluten free and definitely no good for coeliacs!

I don't mind cupcakes, but I hate the adjectives used to describe them... "scrummy", "divine", "sumptuous", makes my skin crawl

If cupcakes are made well (big enough, well made sponge, properly piped buttercream (properly piped so there's not to much of it!) or frosting that isn't too sweet and nicely flavoured, they are delicious! If they aren't made well and most aren't as the world and his wife now think they can make them, then they are foul!

£1.50 each isn't that expensive boxed tbh though, cupcakes can be costly and time consuming to make if you are hand making the decorations. Sugar flowers take an age to make well and flower paste isn't cheap. Fondant decorations go soggy after a while. I hate making them!

My hi hat cupcakes always go down well. Chocolate along with tall piped marshmallow frosting and then dipped in milk chocolate. They're very nice if I do say so myself, but yes, they're expensive to make.

I prefer icing to the actual cake so I reckon they sound rather nice.

I do some work for a lovely lady who has been training in cake baking and decorating for years. Her cupcakes are the size of my fist and so pretty that it makes me sad to eat them. (But I still manage to do it! )

TheBigJessie you make an important point.

Is it wrong that I am imagining eating Midori's cupcakes and I haven't even had my first cup of tea yet?

I think I may have an excessive cake problem.

Circumference of a fairy cake but twice the depth = cupcake

Circumference of a 50p = mini muffin

You've been ripped off! Call Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford!

That's what cupcakes are little bit of sponge loads of crap icing.
I can't stand them.