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I currently make cupcakes and my friend has given me only 3 days notice to make 20 cupcakes for a special occasion , anniversary- she must have known i would not be able to get the bits by three days trouble is I said yes but it is short notice. I don't want t let her down but his is last minute. com

I love butter icing.

To bake or not to bake tonight... Do you think I might be finished before Sunday?

Depends. If you're a professional you'll be lucky to be done by Sunday, if you are just a rank amateur than you'll be finished by tea time tonight.

Ye gods, do you realise you can get "electric cupcake makers"?? We are living in the end times, people.

I bought one of those when my oven packed in , it was great.

I've just put some cakes in the oven and will ice them later. OP, where are you up to?

I like your priorities, Honeydragon. Roast shmoast, casseroles meh, pasta bakes bleh. CAKE. NO MEANS TO MAKE CAKE. AAAAAAAAAAH.

Don't go to Cineworld, buy a medium popcorn deal with diet coke thinking it's a low cal alternative to a hotdog and then put it into myfitnesspal

Look, you could also have bought this Electric Pie Maker which is apparently "a lot less hassle than firing up the oven".

Well, that's a relief.

They get 4 hours to do the showstopper challenge on Great British Bakeoff!

MadBusLady clearly, you were in my house at the time

Now I have a hankering for scotch pies .....

There's also the 5 min cupcake
Who needs an oven?

I certainly hope not to fire up my electric oven!

Op probably feels a bit silly, well a lot silly.

I only ever make batches of 24 anyway cause they go too fast I inhale them

The only reason it would take me 3 days to make a batch of fairy cakes is because I spent the intervening 2 days and 22 hours scoffing the 4 previous batches I had made. ..

weirdo

yabu

and why is it anyone who can bake fairy cakes nowadays without burning them suddenly makes cakes to order?

I have just bought and ate a pack of doughnuts because of this thread.

I would have made cakes instead but wanted them now, not in over 3 days time.

:o jersy

I don't bake to order

Well unless you count the dcs coming in the kitchen and wailing

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake

Ad infinitum until I switch the oven on.

I love it when people call cupcakes "fairycakes" it must be so irksome to the wannabe cupcake professionals.

A properly done little fairy cake with a blob of buttercream in the wing divot and lightly dusted with icing sugar "wings" is a thing of beauty.

Amen to that. I've got the Prospero out and am now attempting Vicky Sponge Take Two. Self raising self raising self raising self raising self raising self raising.

Viv

You need self raising flour

Ooh Viv are you the vicky sponge woman from a previous thread about the weird names people call food? Like Tommy K for ketchup? I've called it a vicky sponge ever since.