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

[Waltzywotzy]

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I found this rather nice blog discussing the issue

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

I agree ml that cupcakes have lots of icing all over the top. I think it is in the quantity of icing that defines a cupcake from a fairy cake to me.

yes wotz and alo cupcakes have a wrapper that goes right to the top of the cake whereas a fairy cake only has wrapper half way up !!!!

i know all the technical terms you see

this big advert is getting on my nerves !!!!

So cupcakes are better dressed? More covering all round.

Yes the big add is annoying especially as they are holiday ads.

FAIRY cakes have wings

cupcakesto me are a very different animal to a fairy cake. There seem to be traditiona cucake styles like Red velvet and double chocolate which would be recogniosable to American nibblers.
Here in the uk we have fairy cakes or queen cakes as they are known in ireland. They are altogether a lighter air filled delight and are ususally topped with a tint dollop of water icingand afew hundreds and thousands.( Also known as 'buns')

we used to call the cakes with wings angel cakes!! isnt this getting confusing I thought fairy cakes were so called because of the lightness of the cake ??

fairy cakes with wings are butterfly cakes

It all depends on which part of the country your from I think.

For example, when I lived in South Yorkshire and my mum used to visit, she would go into a local bakers and ask for a teacake, really meaning breadbun. But a teacake in S Yorks is like a bread bun but it has raisins and sultanas in.

Buns IMO are little sponge cakes.
Cupcakes is an American word for buns and Fairy cakes are mini muffins.

Now I decalre this discussion over because I am right and your just fooling yourselves with your fairy cupcakes and Cupcake fairies

thos are Butterfly buns.they are fairy cakes topped with fresh cream and a cherry or strawberry jam \link{http://www.exclusivelyfood.com.au/uploaded_images/butterflycupcake-728254.JPG\here)

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I have a real fancy for a Lardy cake now, haven't had one in years.

Lardy cake, also known as Lardy bread, Lardy Johns, Dough cake or Fourses cake!

cremolafoam - they're so pretty

noo! a muffin is a different recipe altogether.It is mde from a sloppy batter and is not a cake.
An English Muffin is a savoury thing that looks like this

ooh i like that too wotz,especially when its lovely and sticky !!!whatever the cakes are called,they are all delicious.

gawd i'm hungry

i like crumpets too !!!!

fairy cake

I have a recpe for lardycake somewhere, I love it- west country thing I think

buns- cakes made of yeasted dough

fairy cakes- small cakes in a case with icing popular at parties

cupcakes- American abomination of a term for over styled boden crunching variant of the above or kiling style thing popular in sevewnties reminiscent of chocolate or lemon iced playdough

I only want to eat cakes today

te oes with mallow are indeed commercially abelled teacakes btw but they're not real teackes, just mallow biscuits

wotz you shouldnt of started this thread ,now we are all salivating over our keyboards

i dont like mallow tea cakes ,horrible squashy stuff in your mouth ugh !!! off to find something to eat now !

I agree with Peachy and MAS on their definations of cakes/buns.

Of course, if you all would like an impartial view, just parcel up samples and send them to me.

Oh, it has to be fairy cakes, certainly.

These are what I remember as cupcakes. About an inch of sickly sweet chocolate fudgy icing atop a thin piece of light sponge. Sainsbury's made them in orange and lemon flavour too:

cupcakes from my 70's childhood