When did the word cupcake take over?

The Scientician

For most of my life it was a fairycake, or just a bleedin' bun!
What's up with that?
Get off my lawn young uns!

OutlawPete

Today, when Cupcake Crisis became mod.

KeithM89_old

Who doesnt love Cupcakes??

Fago!

I always thought it was an American term that we started using. Nothing wrong with the name cupcake. Sounds less gay than "fairy cake"

hondasam

Fago! wrote: »

I always thought it was an American term that we started using. Nothing wrong with the name cupcake. Sounds less gay than "fairy cake"

AH is very gay tonight.

Fago!

hondasam wrote: »

AH is very gay tonight.

Oh behave

Saila

hondasam wrote: »

AH is very gay tonight.

expand..

hondasam

Fago! wrote: »

Oh behave

I couldn't resist

I feel left out.

Kojak

I thought they were called buns.

df1985

Reminds me of little posh girls and even women who go on about them and who think theyre "fab"



Theyre buns.

Saila

Kojak wrote: »

I thought they were called buns.

no bike racks

phasers

they're two different things actually.

The Scientician

phasers wrote: »

they're two different things actually.

Explain please.

Senna

Kojak wrote: »

I thought they were called buns.

So did i.
"She's got a cupcake in the oven" just doesn't sound right:D

phasers

The Scientician wrote: »

Explain please.

Fairy cakes are just little sponge cakes, cupcakes have fancy swirly icing and are a heavier consistency

Ruu_Old

It'll always be a bun! :mad: I'm blaming them bastards in Brussels.

The Scientician

phasers wrote: »

Fairy cakes are just little sponge cakes, cupcakes have fancy swirly icing and are a heavier consistency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupcake

markievicz

had this argument with my mam earlier! They're all buns...regardless of how thye're made they all end up in my belly anyway!Hence the term bun in the oven/belly

Kojak

markievicz wrote: »

had this argument with my mam earlier! They're all buns...regardless of how thye're made they all end up in my belly anyway!

I'm not trying to give an anatomy lesson here, but I think they have further to go that your "belly" to end up where they are going....

cryano

This is the most pointless thing ever discussed on the internet! Ever!

moonflower

I don't think there's a difference between a cupcake and a fairy cake, but I would think of a bun as being more of a swirly number that's more bread-like. Something like this

KnifeWRENCH

Aww man, why the hell did I open a thread with the word cupcake in the title? I'm hungry now. And there's no cake in the house....

moonflower

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Aww man, why the hell did I open a thread with the word cupcake in the title? I'm hungry now. And there's no cake in the house....

Make microwave cake.

OutlawPete

It's a muffin.

Fago!

cryano wrote: »

This is the most pointless thing ever discussed on the internet! Ever!

Wtf are you talking about? This shhit is historic :pac:

AgileMyth

Its a bun. I'll fight to the death with anyone who proposes otherwise.

sunflower27

When I grew up (admittedly not in Ireland) they were called cupcakes because you put the cake mixture into little little cupcake patties and then put the icing on them.

It is totally different to a bun or muffin.

Joe10000

I think they are two different things, one is a bun (nice buns) and one is a cup cake (nice cup cakes).

Hope that helps.

Azureus

I call fairy cakes the ones without fancy icing on em.

Been using cupcakes for fancy ones since these guys;
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1YImy6oyges/SsTfL2AaW3I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/9egxd7L9AoI/s400/e3_2.jpg

Ludo

Never heard the term fairy cake. They were always queen cakes when I was young.

efb

Queen cakes have currants. Fairy cakes do not

Overheal

A bun is something i put a burger into. a cupcake is a cake baked in a recepticle similar in size and shape to a cup. imagine that. wherever the fairy cup thing happened, i dont know, and in all my years living on your rock i never heard it once. if i had i would have laughed at you.

Busi_Girl08

Fairy cakes - Never heard of em.
Queen cakes the little plain/iced cakes. My mum calls them buns as well, but she calls eclairs buns too so...
Cupcake - The small-medium sized cake with heavy frosting. The cake itself is generally less sweet than a queen cake's.
Muffin - Those big feckers that, if made properly, should be the size of your head.

RachaelVO

Ludo wrote: »

Never heard the term fairy cake. They were always queen cakes when I was young.

Now you're just sh1t stirring, and opening up a whole other can of worms!

Overheal

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Fairy cakes - Never heard of em.
Queen cakes the little plain/iced cakes. My mum calls them buns as well, but she calls eclairs buns too so...
Cupcake - The small-medium sized cake with heavy frosting. The cake itself is generally less sweet than a queen cake's.
Muffin - Those big feckers that, if made properly, should be the size of your head.

Muffins are kinda like cupcakes but are typically more doughy/made thicker, and they have a top that takes the shape of a mushroom cap. cupcakes are lighter (like a cake) and dont have any such top.

FTGFOP

KeithM89 wrote: »

Who doesnt love Cupcakes??

It would have to be one charming motherfucking cupcake for me to want it over any other sweet treat option.

Now lets all go get cannolis!

dxhound2005

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Fairy cakes - Never heard of em.
Queen cakes the little plain/iced cakes. My mum calls them buns as well, but she calls eclairs buns too so...
Cupcake - The small-medium sized cake with heavy frosting. The cake itself is generally less sweet than a queen cake's.
Muffin - Those big feckers that, if made properly, should be the size of your head.

Frosting? I think you mean icing.

harney

Ruu wrote: »

It'll always be a bun! :mad: I'm blaming them bastards in Brussels.

Wrong direction, you need to blame those dickheads in the USA

Buns, ftw!

phasers

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Frosting? I think you mean icing.

Those are also two different things. Frosting is thicker.

My muffins never work, they always come out flat.

The King of Moo

In the sixties, when businessmen calling their secretaries "bun" just didn't take off.

Frank Black

Surely the real question is* why these various cake options (muffins, buns, fairy cakes, cup cakes) all lend themselves to fairly suggestive double entendres?


* May not in fact be 'the real question'.

Plazaman

Ludo wrote: »

Never heard the term fairy cake. They were always queen cakes when I was young.

He was a Fairy, his name was Nuff.
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Fair enough.




*gets coat*

Micky Dolenz

KeithM89 wrote: »

Who doesnt love Cupcakes??

The irony :P

LeeHoffmann

Fairy cakes are little sponge buns with plain icing on top. They have sentimental value but don't taste nice.
Queen cakes are fairy cakes without the icing.
Cupcakes are upgraded fairy cakes. They have fancy, heavy, pretty and most importantly delicious icing. They're also a little bigger than fairy cakes and look much nicer.
Muffins are oversized super-crumbly queencakes. They come in two flavours - double chocolate or blueberry, have chunks, are heavy and messy.

All of these treats are subcategories of the genus 'bun'.

Fratton Fred

I love Baps.

Phnaar phnaar.

Micky Dolenz

I like creaming up some buns.

hondasam

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I like creaming up some buns.

you good in the kitchen

Fratton Fred

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I like creaming up some buns.

Queen or Fairy

hondasam

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Queen or Fairy

variety is the spice of life.

Frank Black

So what do you prefer - a nice firm set of buns, a couple of soft baps or getting your face stuck into a delicious muffin?

Fratton Fred

black francis wrote: »

So what do you prefer - a nice firm set of buns, a couple of soft baps or getting your face stuck into a delicious muffin?

Muffins are my favourite, as long as they are well presented, moist but not soggy and of a proportionate size.