Just made & decorated 50 fairy cakes....I wonder how many people will call them cupcakes?

[KatyMac]

They are for DH to take to dancing tomorrow am

It was his birthday

I hate them being called cupcakes ?

I am so sad

Blimey Katy you are the cupcake queen

No just choc icing badly smeared

Do you think I should find some sweeties?

Could be difficult before 9am tomorrow

I do have some white mini snowflakes I could spinkle

Fairy Cakes all the way Unless of course you are in America?

Did you make butterfly wings on any? Mine never rise enough to do that - I loved them when I was little

And runny water icing is a must.

Badly smeared is how it should be Katymac.

No

No butterfly cakes, which imo require butter cream (& a light dusting of icing sugar) & I couldn't be arsed - didn't start until just before 9

I think cup cake might be an American term.

He must refuse to let them have one if they say cupcakes
DD iced bright pink ones with glitter and sprinkles today, in honour of her friend's new baby sister

Cupcakes are bigger than fairy cakes and have more icing, like buttercream rather than just icing sugar and water icing.

CUPCAKES - I really hate that term
for me cupcakes are a really small sponge with a thick layer of chocolate icing.

I make fairy cakes or buns alot

Per-xackerly (as DD used to say)

I make fairy cakes and fairy cakes only

I dislike Americanisms particularly when they are used to refer to something typically English

I'm with you on this katy, but I have to ask...

Your DH is going to dancing tomorrow morning with 50 cupcakes? We need more on this!

Ummm..what sort of more do you need?

It seems perfectly self explanatory to me

He is a dance teacher, he does a Saturday morning class, it was his birthday, he has to take cakes

Honest

Except they are fairy cakes

Oh I get you. I immediately thought he was attending the class.

Sounds fairy-nough

Nah - there isn't much about dancing DH needs to learn - his hips move independently from the rest of his body......& he has loads of rhythm

Oh yes - buns I remember when very small we lived in Yorkshire for a while and they were "buns". I can practically smell them now

DD and I will definately be making them tomorrow as it is her Grandads Birthday and he will loce them - especially if he knows she made them for him

I am from yorkshire never thought of it as a yorkshire thing..

Well they were fairy cakes in Liverpool 30 odd years ago

& they are fairy cakes in Norfolk now

Kaytmac - yes Fairycakes everywhere else but Yorkshire was a bun place. That is so odd greyskull

However either is preferable to "cupcake".

Snowflake sprinkles sound fun btw. can you damp the icing down and sprinkle them now? The more the merrier with fairy cakes imo.

Too knackered
Too down

They will have to do

I was never aware of the discrimination against cupcakes. And I thought the difference was just size. So traditionally, it has been fairy cakes till the 'American-invasion' .. is that it?

Oh Kuck - DH is now researching the origins of cupcakes/fairycakes on t'interweb

bring on the heated discussion!