CUPCAKES-the world has gone Cupcake mad............

[jenk1]

why are people so obsessed with cupcakes?
Every magazine i seem to open has a reference to them, from heidi kulm buying posh and her family a years supply and then the Sex and the city film and now last week in my local rag, a school friend of my sister who trained as a chef is now just making cupcakes.

But cupcakes have been round for years, so why the sudden interest?

ive always made them.........

I read an article a while back - apparently sex and the city had a shop that made these fancy cupcakes, and people got all trend followy, so all these other cupcake people started popping up.

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fairycakes

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yes but if you consider the whole issue from an alternative angle ie what is there NOT to like about cupcakes? And obviously the answer is nothing.

Therefore I am all in favour of this new trend.

Well of course you'd like them Slubber - they're ickly tiny baby sponges, aren't they. But you're right - it's just the name that's annoying, not the actual cakes.

The cupcake (to my mind) is the oversized and slightly more sophisticated fairy cake.

The Kiri te Kanawa to the Charlotte Church.

Ha, ha!
I came on to the thread to shout fairy cakes too

it's not a new trend. Cupcake-fancying has been around for ages - Nigella's HTBADG features them heavily and that must be at least 5 years old now?

Actually cupcakes are really passe now. These days it's all about macaroons dontcha know

And let's face it, they are buns (or fairy cakes at a push)

I think of cupcakes as bigger than fairy cakes too

Just in a taller case, though, I think. Same mixture.

Oh G&T I like a macaroon too. A standard large british coconut macaroon with an oozy middle.

Oh yes

I don't think of macaroons as trendy, more as a Thora Hird/Alan Bennet thing 'I was having a macaroon with Thora Hird the other day...' (as in Dead Ringers on the radio).

is the macaroon just 10 mins out of the oven and the middle squidgy bit still warm?

I think so.

I have come onto this thread as respite after icing a pile of chocolate cupcakes which are taking the place of One Big Cake for DD2's fifth birthday party this afternoon.

I like cupcakes. And every attempt I make at a huuuuuuuuuuuuge cake ends up like a breadboard. AND it means each charming little guest () gets a cake, no slicing, any whimpers of "ooh can't I take it home not eat it now" can be simply and firmly replied with "frankly, my dear, you can do whatever you like with it"...and the grownups get one too.

I mean, as the Slubber says, it's cake. And therefore a Good Thing.

Jackie, oh no they are very on trend for the afternoon high tea.

I have never done Nigellas pistashio ones, but I would like to. Any one done them here?

isnt the name cupcake just american for fairycake? therefore the fact theyre bigger is no surprise, everything american is bigger and lardier than everyoine elses, no?

yes to cocumut macaroon, no to poncey miniature oddly flavoured pastel ones

why are you despatching marsupials?

I should probably make it clear I am not expecting anyone to say "Darling! How on-trend!" as they splodge chocolate icing over their faces.

i dont think i know what a macaroon is. it sounds coconutty and therefore horrid to me

if somebody said 'how on trend' to anything in rl id probably snort. at them rather than with them

I am so over cupcakes (They are fairy cakes. I am not American).

It's baklava muffins all the way chez Peachy...

oh yes should have said Fairy Cakes which is what they are lol

MI, but you can think it in your head as you and your guests eat them, and that is the metaphorical icing on the domestic goddess cake surely?

Do you ganache, butter cream or just straight forward icing sugar ice them?

Chippy I killed one once, a long time ago, in a car.