to want people to stop saying cupcakes and call them fairy cakes instead?

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I don't know why I care really.

I just think that they should be called fairy cakes like days gone by

Saw Hummingbird cupcake book in a shop and thought should be Hummingbird fairy cakes.

Or is it just me?

Though fairy cakes are allowed some buttercream icing in which case they become butterfly cakes.

muf·fin (mfn)
n.

1. A small, cup-shaped quick bread, often sweetened.
2. An English muffin.

cup·cake (kpkk)
n.
A small cake baked in a cup-shaped container.

I don't know what I did before I discovered buttermilk. It makes cupcakes really smooth and fluffy. I've rather gone off chewy fairy cakes now. And the buttercream or cream cheese topping is nice too.

(Traitor)

Yes, and squirrels.

I hate American bashing but please, leave our little fairy cakes alone. We have acccepted muffins, reeses butter cups and cookies, but please keep your great big cupcakes and let us keep our dainty little fairy cakes, please.

The term Fairy cakes can refer to:
A cupcake

Cupcakes look so tempting but are always a disappointment.

I treated myself to a lavender flavoured one from Waitrose - was all excited as it was given to me in a patisserie box. The icing was rock hard and the cake bit all chewy.

I went running back to MIL's delectable fairy cakes, in floral patterned cake cases and plain white icing.

I want to keep the cupcakes. They're bigger therefore more cake for me to scoff. That's a good thing surely.

I agree bought ones generally are disappointing, however delightful the packaging, but, homemade, they can be yummy. Having made cupcakes (i.e. muffin case sized small cakes from various recipes) for a while I tried making some fairy-cake sized ones and found them deeply unsatisfactory but I think, on reflection, that is because the poor little things were baked (although in fairy cake cases) in muffin tins and they just got a bit lost and the cases collapsed. Since I have enough muffin tins and mini muffin tins to bake for a largeish party in one go I am not prepared to equip for fairy cakes as well, however much I would like to support an endangered native species.

I always think of cupcakes as being the grown-up word. So yes, YAB excessively U, and you are clearly trying to destabilise adult society. 600 lines and detention for you: 'I must not eat fairy cakes'.

On my desk in the morning, please.

I think cup cakes is just one big marketing rip off - yet another thing designed to get loads of money out of us. Seem to be presented as somehow superior/ more sophisticated than the wee cakes we make at home.

Hate the phrase and refuse to say it. Also hate those cop out big cakes that are just tiers and tiers of wee cakes. Pretentious or what?

YANBU. Cupcakes! Pah!

Although strictly speak don't fairy cakes have a bit of cake scooped a bit of butter cream icing put in and then the cut out bit put back in 2 bits at a jaunty angle (like Fairies wings)

Those are butterfly cakes. Fairy cakes can have a thin layer of water icing studded with hundreds and thousands or chocolate sprinkles, or butter cream as you described.

YABU. They are completely distinct species of cake, and I am willing to put myself forward for extensive taste-testing to prove this point.

Now, the people who suggest that buns are ANYWHERE near cupcakes/fairy cakes are completely unreasonable. Iced buns are evil - they pretend to be all iced and sweet and lovely, but basically they're a bread roll with crap icing on top. An abomination.

They are not the same.

Fairy cakes are teeny weeny - hence the name - and may or may not be iced.
Cupcakes are larger and have a complete layer of icing over the top completely covering the cake.

Iced buns are delicious,particuarly coconut buns.

We have a cupcake shop opened in town called....
wait for it....

...cupcakes.

The women who run it are predicatbly as pink and sickly looking as theiur confectipons.

£1.85 per cupcake they charge.
Bag o'shoite!

Cupcakes did not exist in this country before about 5 years ago. Fact. Before that we were all happy enough with our fairy cakes.

YANBU.

Cupcakes are too big, the ratio of cake to 'frosting' is all wrong.

Eyeballs - your link has made me want to go and bake fairy cakes!

Hmmmm....I bought DD a particularly expensive cupcake from a stall. The ladies were significantly Boden. They told me they could organise cupcakes parties for my DD's b'day at only £10 a head And I'd have to transport all the girls to Clifton in Bristol (40 miles).

No, I remember someone in 'Jackie' writing about his (the token male correspondent) cupcake addiction. That would be in the 70s. Didn't know what he meant then.

bun

? noun 1 a small cake or bread roll. 2 a hairstyle in which the hair is drawn into a tight coil at the back of the head. 3 (buns) N. Amer. informal a person?s buttocks.

Note the term small cake!!! It's a northern thing, we have buns up here and mighty fine ones too!

Yes about the ice buns. Look all tempting and you realise you are eating about half a pound of stale mothers pride covered in sugar, so not the best experience.

I think fairys should be classed as an Endangered Indigenous Species and be given priority in shops, if there is a suitable equivalent to a cupcake flavour preference will be given to the fairy.

And I don't get your size argument, just eat two fairys instead of one cup, what's the problem with that?

I think we are fairy-cake party sort of people. Or maybe iced-bun party.

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