How does a fairy cake transform into a cupcake?

[SquiffyHock]

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 )

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

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

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.

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?

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

I thought it was a cupcake

till it got its wings and

turned into a fairy cake

same size though

receipes on this thread

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.

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

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

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.

fairycake just sounds so wet

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

dizzy - I am drooling over your linked thread.

the yogurt ones are fab and sooooooooo easy!

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