When did the word cupcake take over?

Overheal · 02-06-2011 07:26AM

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 · 02-06-2011 07:36AM

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 · 02-06-2011 07:49AM

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 · 02-06-2011 07:53AM

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 · 02-06-2011 10:34AM

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 · 02-06-2011 10:51AM

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 · 02-06-2011 10:56AM

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 · 02-06-2011 10:57AM

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 · 02-06-2011 10:59AM

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

Frank Black · 02-06-2011 10:59AM

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 · 02-06-2011 11:00AM

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 · 02-06-2011 11:01AM

KeithM89 wrote: »

Who doesnt love Cupcakes??

The irony :P

LeeHoffmann · 02-06-2011 11:06AM

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 · 02-06-2011 11:17AM

I love Baps.

Phnaar phnaar.

Micky Dolenz · 02-06-2011 11:25AM

I like creaming up some buns.

hondasam · 02-06-2011 11:26AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I like creaming up some buns.

you good in the kitchen

Fratton Fred · 02-06-2011 11:28AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I like creaming up some buns.

Queen or Fairy

hondasam · 02-06-2011 11:31AM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Queen or Fairy

variety is the spice of life.

Frank Black · 02-06-2011 11:36AM

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 · 02-06-2011 11:46AM

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.

borderlinemeath · 02-06-2011 11:47AM

I don't like cupcakes, or fairy cakes, or queen cakes.
If pushed I'd have a muffin. But not banana or blueberry. Apple cinnamon or toffee.
For a sweet treat I love a bit of tart.

The Scientician · 02-06-2011 02:05PM

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?

That's better than the Snackbox analogy I heard before but this is meant to be a family thread!!

smokedeels · 02-06-2011 02:06PM

People like to pretend they live in America

Vicxas · 02-06-2011 02:09PM

Fairy cakes are for grannys, cupcakes are for.... eh non grannys?

Cupcake_Crisis · 02-06-2011 02:22PM

I like this thread. I like this thread a lot :cool:

OutlawPete wrote: »

Today, when Cupcake Crisis became mod.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat??

FTGFOP wrote: »

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

In fairness....I am very charming!

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

The irony :P

HazDanz · 02-06-2011 02:31PM

It's a bun in my opinion. Don't want to go off on a tangent in this thread but just wondering isn't the term "biscuit" something different in America too?

RichieC · 02-06-2011 02:43PM

I've always called them Fairy cakes... if you want to blame anyone for the rise of "cupcake" blame Nickelodeon.

Darkginger · 02-06-2011 03:36PM

Back in the 70s, you used to get 'cupcakes' (can't remember who made them), in packs of 6 - in either chocolate, or orange and lemon flavours. They weren't like the modern cupcakes, nor like fairy cakes, they were flat on top - but the icing was thick - about 1/4" maybe. I'm thinking it's the thickness of the icing or frosting that defines the cupcake and makes it different from a fairy cake.