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.........

These are butter creamed. With a gold smartie on the top. In gold (Lakeland) cases. They are very, very blingy. I know my five year old market well. DD2's will have gold candles on, obviously.

I have been using Royal Icing Sugar and edible glitter for my fete offerings - looks beautiful.

slubber iirc the pistachio ones were nice- although i may have made them with almonds (fuddle brain), I know I made hers and they were yum, as were her riccareli (sp)

I love macaroons, never heard of pastel ones never want to again neither

at gold smarties

i didnt know you could get gold smarties
dss used to react to them (smarties) like they were crack so ive kind of avoided them ever since.
am LOVING the sound of MI's bling cupcakes. booyakashah !

are maccarrooooons coconutty?

I know. They are, I have to admit, from Fortnum's, because I work just near Fortnum's (at an office where the word 'on-trend' is frequently used, I must also admit).

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I think you can get plain macaroons (not coconutty) and coconut macaroons (coconutty, obviously). I like both, tbh.

my word, chocolate cake with gold adornments. They sound very sophisticate., Your dds sound very sophisticated too. We are still trapped in the pink zone here.

In fact today I spent £21 in an on line icing shop ordering vast quantities of white and 'shell pink' royal icing for dd2's party a week on thursday. have been instructed to re-create Pinky Pie (my little pony) in cake format.

Next year I'm laying down some rules, a pile of beautiful fairy cakes sounds the way to go.

Gold smarties sound fab. Expensive though?

'roons are usualy, not always oconut- bpumd together with incing sugary yumminess

i do have the non-coconut nigella recipe if anyone wants it

I am not looking forward to piling them up, though. Something Will Go Wrong. I may force inveigle some of the parents who appear to wish to stay for a drink instead of bogging off to freedom into doing the piling up for me.

Bribe them with extra drinks, MI.

oh and muffins are well, cakes.

Yep, a fiver for a bag, although the bag contains about a million. I couldn't resist, though.

Do they have real gold leaf on? I know you can get edible gold leaf.

MI you'll be needing a cup cake tree next time round.

Look you can fit 300 on them.

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ooh, i want gold smarties now.
LOL'd at office near fortums where ontrend is oft said.

I would also like to put it on record that the rest of the party food contains absolutely nothing of any nutritional value whatsoever, bar a few cherry tomatoes they will probably use as missiles. Crisps a go-go, it is.

muffin a bit odd as theres diff sorts, no? blueberry/choc muffin type things... but arent those those bready things you put in the toaster muffins too?

good to hear it MI

i did kids party the other day. did ds1's first, 3 weeks earlier. was smaller and ultimately a practice run for ds2's, to which the whole nursery class were invited

it went swimmingly, i must say! (whatever swimmingly means, i assmue good but who knows really?)
i prob have a pic somewhere of the little tables all decorated and with heluim balloons tied to each chair in the cleared out and cleanedup barn - complete with BUNTING!!
you wanna see?

I suspect the old blueberry muffin is a bit past it these days. Although the individual muffin top (served sans muffin stalk) is a cake trend waiting in the wings.

I know Elaine tried it on Seinfeld, I think she was onto a winner.

No, I shall vanish in a puff of inferiority: I am bunging Charlie and Lola tablecoverings on rather institutional tables and looking vaguely for fold-up chairs