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How does a fairy cake transform into a cupcake?

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SquiffyHock · 10/06/2008 18:59

Because there is a difference

Comeoveneer makes such beautiful cupcakes and has posted a recipe for frosting, any others? Where do you get your supplies? Do you use a bigger buncase?

Please can you post recipes and links to fabulousness - I am determined to perfect the perfect cupcake!

(If Cod drops in; I know you hate cupcakes but don't look in on the thread if it's going to annoy you )

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Califrau · 10/06/2008 21:12

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SquiffyHock · 10/06/2008 21:39

C'mon - I know there's lots of talented bakers out there

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BlueDragonfly · 10/06/2008 21:40

is a cupcake not a different name for a muffin?(i don't bake )

wasabipeanut · 10/06/2008 21:42

I think cupcakes are deeper with a thick frosting. Fairy cakes are teeny with a little drizzle of thinner icing.

Personally I feel both are very valid.

dizzydixies · 10/06/2008 21:44

I thought fairycakes had a scoop out the top, then filled with cream and the scoop halved and placed back in the top as the wings?

ivyJkaty44 · 10/06/2008 21:44

Fairy's make fairy cakes and cups make cup cakes? Or is it because cup cakes are Australian and American where you use equal quantaties of cups in the recipe and Uk make fairy cakes because they are small for fairy's to eat? My cup cakes or fary cakes are not dry they are moist and delectable

cinderallaLovescherries · 10/06/2008 21:44

I thought it was a cupcake

till it got its wings and

turned into a fairy cake

same size though

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dizzydixies · 10/06/2008 21:44

receipes on this thread

Confederate · 10/06/2008 21:45

Generally speaking I think a fairy cake has wings, and a cup cake has not got wings.

They are not real, actual wings of course, but small discs of sponge cut in half and arranged in a way to represent a fairy's wings.

I hope that helps.

hana · 10/06/2008 21:45

fairycakes are just cupcakes , but made in the UK aren't they?

I make yummy cupcakes - fairycakes have never crossed my oven!

choccypig · 10/06/2008 21:45

Cupcakes and Fairy cakes are little sponge cakes. Cupcake has a flat top and lots of "frosting" aka icing. Fairy cake has a more rounded top and not such thick icing.
A muffin is not sponge, because it is made with oil rather than butter.

That said, it's really a lot of marketing speak, and 1984 language. Muffins are just an excuse to eat cakes for breakfast.
Fairy cakes are just to make it sound smaller. Cupcakes are to make it sound posh and American.

hana · 10/06/2008 21:45

fairycake just sounds so wet

dizzydixies · 10/06/2008 21:45

lol - so it is mmj
am removing myself from the thread before I show myself up some more

Confederate · 10/06/2008 21:46

Oh, so it has nothing to do with the wings then? Perhaps there is some cultural confusion here.

ivyJkaty44 · 10/06/2008 21:46

Fairy cakes come from the bottom of the garden when you lose a tooth

ivyJkaty44 · 10/06/2008 21:47

But muffins have a totaly different texture to fairy cakes and are not the same

Confederate · 10/06/2008 21:47

Oh my goodness. I am so sorry I have just read down the thread, and seen that someone else has already talked about wings, and that they were wrong.

I am so sorry.

I will make sure I always read the thread first instead of posting without having read the thread.

dizzydixies · 10/06/2008 21:50

yes, was me with the wrongness

I also thought muffins had to kind of puff out over the top of the case

a la muffin top?!?!?

am probably wrong though lol

Confederate · 10/06/2008 21:52

Oh yes, i think they do, but i'm not sure that the extra puff is considered to be the defining characteristic of a muffin necessarily.

dizzydixies · 10/06/2008 21:54

I never manage to get mine to puff but still call them muffins

ivyJkaty44 · 10/06/2008 21:57

habeasbrulee.com/2006/02/28/marxipan-muffins/

www.recipezaar.com/sitenews/post.php?pid=637

MARGOsBeenPlayingWithMyNooNoo · 10/06/2008 22:00

dizzy - I am drooling over your linked thread.

dizzydixies · 10/06/2008 22:03

the yogurt ones are fab and sooooooooo easy!

SquiffyHock · 10/06/2008 22:08

Confused Wow! Butterfly cakes are definately the ones that you cut the top off and then half it. Muffins, I agree, have a muffin top - Choccypig, excellent description. How does one achieve the 'flat top' and how would you make the frosting?

Give me your cupcake recipes then, and where you buy your supplies from

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