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?

have to giggle, this debate on fairy versus cup cakes is 8 pages long!!!!!!!

They are buns where I come from.

Cupcakes don't in themselves, it's the obsession with all things cupcakey and domestic goddess-y that worries me.

I also like making cakes (and eating them).

I can see that.

I see the obsession as more of a wanting-it-all thing. My mother was a SAHM, so to me the domestic-goddess type stuff represents a lot of my childhood (we used to eat homemade bread made from homebloodyground wheat with homemade jam on top) that, as a working mother I just can't do and sometimes feel guilty about.

DH was a latchkey kid of divorced parents, so for him the domestic-goddessy stuff is everything his childhood wasn't iyswim.

I think the Cath-Kidson-and-co stuff is more aspirational than anything else, sort of wanting the extreme of BOTH sides (a perfect, high flying career AND perfectly coiffed meringue pies!).

I guess the cupcake representation doesn't make sense to me because cupcakes are dead-easy, much easier than a full cake. So I always see cupcakes as the lazy route and nothing impressive/goddessy about them

I also like to make and eat cakes, but I like to feed them to other people more . I worked in a bakery through school and have had enough cake to last a lifetime!

I blame sodding Nigella too.