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Its National Cupcake week!! I dont get it- Now fairy cakes I can accept- just!!, but a Cupcake- please retain our britishism!! :-)

Cupcakes always remind me of my childhood...........a Cad****s Chocolate Cupcake on my return home from school, the Chocolate on the top was really thick in those days, bet it isn`t nowadays.....


Never quite sure about buns....... are they more of a Northern England thing?

But National Cupcake week???!!!!!



Nicky

Perhaps 'bun' is a northern thing then, but cupcakes are American as they measure quantitys in cups therefore they are known as cupcakes.

and yes national cupcake week!! 13th to 19th sept- so get baking :-)

Well if cupcakes are American...then why is it cupcake week here?? I can only presume there are a lot consumed in this country?

No offence to any Americans...I used to love your cupcakes.........didn`t realise they originated in the US.....


nicky

Thats what I cant figure out Nicky- I dont know when it changed in the UK to cupcake!!

These words just slip into the language and we dont notice until its too late!! lol

As a country we are becoming very Americanised Lancslass


At this rate Obama will be running for Office in the next election LOL...




Nicky

It may be an improvement on the current selection! lol

I used to get confused over buns and rolls.
Mum would send me out for 6 buns and I'd come back with 6 icing covered cakey concoctions! No good for the cheese roll my dad wanted!! LOL

Now I've finally managed to work out the difference they now call them cupcakes???

That's not a cup they're in - it's a cake case - they're buns!
Mind you - Chelsea buns/iced buns are totally different. Not in a cake case at all - and no good for a cheese roll. Now I know how/why I got confused.

...and the added confusion of a muffin in the north of england being a bread roll and not a giant bun!!

And what are Barm/Balm Bam??? cakes that they order from the cafe in Coronation Street??


nicky

A Barm cake is a bread roll- also known as a muffin, tea cake , oven bottom- we have them all up here!! lol

Hmmm - could be why sweet cakes are now called cupcakes!!
I'm sorry, Lancashire Lass - but a muffin and tea cake are sweet - not bread rolls - which are savoury. I know you can add sugar to bread dough to make it sweet, but once the sugar is added they are no longer bread rolls.
Perhaps I wasn't the only one to be confused! LOL

Cos of the EEC rules we are no longer able to call them fairy cakes................ cos no fairies were used to make them!!!!! So instead we go to the american version Cup cakes!!!!

So its actually National Fairy Cake week then???



Nicky

I just know they are bread- definitely ask for a chip muffin from the Chippy and I used to have to go to buy teacakes from the bakers for sandwiches as a child

I can still buy Lancsashire oven bottoms from A*da too. (they're big and flat and a bit floury)

Barm cakes, I think had an extra ingredient to change the taste, but still know them as bread.

Oh and I forgot to mention Baps!

Oh captain you made me laugh on that one- no fairies!! pmsl!!

Do they use Cups though haha

Im still going to call them buns!

Fairy Cakes are Sponge Cakes?... Yes? with Icing on sometimes ?? Yes?

So same as Cupcakes then??? lol



Pretty sure you can`t buy Oven bottoms in As*a down here, so presumably they are just made for the Northern shops?



Nicky

because im sad!!

http://www.ovenbottommuffins.co.uk/

That is one of the EEC rules, the description has to fit the item ie also no butterfly cakes, again no butterflies were used in them. Rules gone bonkers methinks....................