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?

"The ladies were significantly Boden" lolol

There would a cupcake shop in Clifton. I bet they wear Cath Kidston pinnies and peeptoe slingbacks.

YABU and need to get out more

Were you there getorf? Weston S M High Street saturday before last?

They are just cakes here. Unless they are butterfly cakes.

Cupcakes always used to be those chocolate ones in deep cases with perfectly flat fudgy icing below the level of the case that you bough in sixes from the supermarket, long before all these huge swirly things arrived.

Definitely fairy cakes. YANBU. Why can't we have our own name for things

Orm - no, but dd goes to school in Cheltenham (Cheltenham on the same level of ponciness as Clifton imo) and I know the type.

Some of the mums at dd's school used to come in with individually decorated beauties for cake sales. I used to send in shop-bought cakes

They are not bloody buns!

Buns have to be yeast-based, surely - or is that not the case oop north ?

I agree with buns being yeast based.Scotland here. Fairy cakes are most certainly not bun like in any way,shape or form.

yanbu. It annoys me too. Holy cajoley, stop being so american.

In my northern idyll we called small cakes "little cakes". Not foary and certianly not cup. Where for ffs are the fairies or the cups [confused emoticon]?

Apologies for the tpos.
"Fairy" and "certainly".
Sorry

Just been searching for a catalogue that came through the door the other day. It had a page suggesting Christmas presents for different people in your life. For your cleaner they suggest a box of cakes... can't remember if they were cup or fairy ( hence the search) but they WERE fairy cakes... homemade with white icing and smarties or hundreds and thousands on... for a box of 12 it was thirty quid!

Fairy cakes are those little sponge cakes with a bit sliced off whcih is then cut in two and stuck back on with a bit of butter icing to look like wings - hence fairy cake.

Cupcakes are muffin sized and with a flat icing or frosting top.

I am sure there is a degree of misappropriation of name of cake

BUT

yabu, I'm afraid.

Cupcakes

Fairy cake

I think it is in the curve of the top

a cupcake top is flat and reaches almost to the brim of the case

a fairy cake top is curved and slopes up to a parapet of sprinkle and/or cherry etc

Not sure if recipe the same although I always associate cup with those hideous plasticky commercial ones from a packet, with thick inedible icing, and fairy with the ones you get at fetes and can still see portions of the actual naked cake from above. iygwim

fark me, I regularly whip up a baker's dozen for friend's parties....for FREE

Hannahsaunt, no I think you will find that is a butterfly cake.

Or maybe Iw as brought up wrong...

Yes... we used to call the winged ones butterfly cakes too.

Mwah... you could undercut them... suggest it to all your mates with cleaners

No oop north, or least where I am buns are most defintely yeast based.

i call them buns too.

Wings = buterfly cakes

GetORf, the Waitrose ones are rotten aren't they? Horrible. But not all cupcakes are like that! Cup, fairy and butterfly all have their place IMO (and IM stomach)

butterfly, I mean

We called the winged ones "butterfly cakes" too. The little cakes were the ones with icing or choclate on the top, rather like the big spongue (sp?) cake my mum would make my dad (although no jam inside ours though). We just had big cakes and little cakes (and butterfly cakes, and cornflake/ricecrispie cakes.... oh stop! My mouth is watering )