Ok from the Cath Kidson thread lets have a Cupcake vs Fairy Cake debate

[Waltzywotzy]

cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com

I found this rather nice blog discussing the issue

I prefer the term Cupcakes myself. Fairy cakes are for fairies surely?

I can't debate on my own, i'm off.

I fear I am a fairy.

Although, I am sure I may have called them Cupcakes also, or how else do I know that word.

They are very nice whatever they may be called.

those are fairy cakes in my book

cupcakes are fairy cakes with posh icing on

Definitely fairy cakes

a cupcake has thick icing across the whole of the top of the cake...

Buns ffs.

BUNS!

BUNS?

cupcakes IMO have a deep layer of icing at the top.
Fairy cakes/butterfly cakes have a disc taken out and reinserted into buttercream like pretend wings.
Buns are sponge mixture in small cases.

no, buns are sticky things with currants in !

bythepowerofgreyskull
I tend to go along with that reasoning FWIW your cakes are lovely.......

they are teacakes surely?

Someone explains it nicely on the link. I still don't get it tbh. Fairy Fairy Fairy!!!!!!!

Cupcakes have chocolate on top. Well my ones do anyway.

BUNS have to be sticky or else they are ROLLS

Teacakes have mallow in the middle.

and chocolate layered across them.

Buns are sticky with or without cream.

I must visit the bakers today.

No you can toast TEACAKES
they don't have white mallow, but I know the ones you mean. If you toasted those they'd make a mess of the toaster.

thanks WW

Biggestfirework - how do you toast them if they have mallow in the middle?

I'm getting rather hungry now

teacakes aren't shiny like buns,though iced buns are a different plate of cake

Malt loaf, now is that cake or a loaf? I love it all the same with butter.

MAS so are buns bread or sponge?

buns are bread I think...bythepowerofgreyskull -there's a little thread named for you if you take a look ...

wotz they look like fairy cakes to me !malt loaf to me is just that,and tea cakes as someone else has said are for toasting and having with loads of butter.Cupcakes have all the icing over the top !

I'm with greyskull. Cupcakes are hideously sweet american things with too much icing (or frosting as they would say). What you are talking about is a bun.