to think that world DOES NOT need more cupcakes..

[StuckInTheMiddleWithYou]

I went to my local market the other day.

It has been infested with stalls selling silly little pink cakes for a £1 each.

Well "selling" is a misnomer here, it was more a case of a bored women standing behind a table with cakes on. Not much selling happening.

There were at least four stalls doing this.

Look, I'm all for women starting businesses etc but this is getting silly.

My world always needs more cake of any variety

Yummy, I always need more cupcakes! Mind you, I prefer my own homemade ones. was shocked to see individual cupcakes (nothing fancy) on sale in sefridges for £1.99 EACH! Bloody hell - who would pay that except Princess Beatrice or some rich airhead?

They must be selling some though otherwise their business would have packed up already? doesn't really bother me

I'm with Katy, saw the thread title and thought my house could do with more cupcakes. But I shall make them myself. In a bit. When I can be bothered.

I most be the only cake lover in the world who doesn't see the appeal of cupcakes.

There is too much icing on the top. Too much! It isn't nice.

Give me a chocolate muffin any day.

Cupcakes are nice enough but I'd never, ever choose one over a Victoria sponge.

YANBU

There are too many people hawking cupcakes whose time could be better spent making Victoria sponges.

But if you can't be arsed to make them waitrose do swirly sparkley cupcakes for £0.59 or 2 for £1, and you can pick up a bottle of Pinot while you are there.

Hmmn Mumsnet business venture perhaps, cake and wine take away service?

YANBU. They are a fad at the moment, and far too expensive.

YANBU

So last week!
This week: Cakepops!

YANBU. I hate cupcakes.
Fairy cakes are a different matter altogether, mind and I could eat them in disgraceful quantities.

fairy cakes are for wimps
cupcakes rule and the more icing the better

They are naf.

What you need is whoopie pies
They are fab, though I fill with plain whipped cream, and top with melted chocolate

Cupcakes are over. It's all about macaroons dontcha know

And apparently pronounced macarON if one is in the know. The diff between macaroons and cupcakes, sadly, is that any fule can have a bash at a cupcake whereas macaroons look HARD (to me anyway). Also, sadly I am egg and dairy free so can still make a decent cupcake whereas macaroons would be crap without egg.

• Goes back to reading domestic goddess cookery book -

Mugggs, are whoopie pies biscuity or cake? They look divinely sick-making and easily converted into dairy free so I may have a bash at those.

Wimps?!!

I foresee another trip to the car park. Not that you'll be a challenge, stuffed to the lardy gills with cupcakes!!

Pshaw!

Riven, I disagree. Fairy cakes are smaller, English and have glace icing. Cupcakes are larger, American and have butter icing.

Why don't we start an English fashion for sweet treats (nb I am not English by birth but live here now). Why don't the girls from SITC start a trend for Eccles cakes or something WHOLESOME!??

I agree with Riven.....

and also with the OP...I am sick to the back teeth of hearing about cupcakes. (don't get me wrong, I like stuffing my gob with any form of cake as much as the next lardarse, but I don't really understand this new craze of cupcaking as a topic of conversation....) (eeek, look, even I'm talking about the fecking things)

As a reminder....

these are fairy cakes

unlike these:

which are cupcakes

Well, the Americans have led the way in the trend towards obesity, so draw your own conclusions...

No one with me on sitting with one's elegant chums sipping a cocktail and dining on an Eccles cake/ bara brith/ slice of barmbrack then?