[Closed] Cup cakes, grr.

Touche!

they're rank, once bitten, twice sick

They're called buns.

When middle_OAB makes them, they rock. As does all cake.

IHN - Member

Over-decorated, over-sweet, overpriced w@nkery.

That is all.

Eating cupcakes will not help your cause on Sunday... ;o)

I can stomach them when home made or free. I'd not pay money for one.

[i]Eating cupcakes will not help your cause on Sunday[/i]

I'm not eating them, on principle.

On Monday I'll be eating anything I can lay my hands on 🙂

[s]Over-decorated, over-sweet, overpriced [/s]

Cake! Yummy yummy cake!

That is all.

The cake is just there as a means of delivering the icing. Whether or not that's your thing is up to you.

I like em' don't like the super soft/soggy ones though.

1/2 icing, 1/2 cake. Good ratio that 😀

I quite like them as long as the icing isn't too thick and too sweet which, unfortunately, is the majority of them.

1/2 icing, 1/2 cake. Good ratio that

More than £1 for a cup cake is a rip-off as far as I am concerned.

Yes, the rental and business rate are so expensive that the cup cakes become so overpriced it's a rip off. We are just feeding the ZMs (those who set the business rate and rental etc) that take a slice out of the price ...

Ring doughnut that is more than 40p is a rip-off ...

As long as they don't have too much icing they are fine. They are surely an Americanism as back in the old day they were Fairy cakes.

They are rubbish, too sweet and too expensive for a tiny bit of cake and an inch of over decorated sugary icing on top. You cant beat a good slab of victoria sponge.

As with many things these days, cup cakes have become a victim of 'all style, no substance'.

They are the Kim Kardashian of the cake world!

Bah!!!

For some reason people look down on you when you dispense with the cake entirely and just make icing. (see also: eating blocks of marzipan)

Northwind - Do you eat the choccy off a kit kat first?

I can't eat the kitkat biscuit as it has wheat flour in. YOU INSENSITIVE SWINE!

Surely the 'Cup Cake' has become the very living embodiment of a certain type of middle class Mumsnetty ****iness.

One of our cutomers bought us a big box of them last Christmas, labelled Yorkshire Cup Cakes. After the initial OH FFS's!!!, we opened the box and were delighted to find a job lot of these...

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fersh from a local butchers. I nearly cried with joy 😀

Cakes & pies = all good in any form, no matter whether they've got pink icing on or not.

I don't understand why my kids can make nicer cupcakes than the overpriced oversugared ones in the shops.

But I encourage them to keep trying to disappoint me.

An alternative to the overdecorated cupcakes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/std-cupcakes_n_2006769.html

Pork pies or pies for me over cup cakes any day any time ...

1/2 icing, 1/2 cake. Good ratio that

No no no, it's a dastardly way of hiding a mediocre cake behind a load of sugar and colouring. 😡

doris5000 - Member

No no no, it's a dastardly way of hiding a mediocre cake behind a load of sugar and colouring.

My grandad in his later years constantly varied the cake/(icing+marzipan) ratio but settled more or less on 50/50, though that was skewed by him loving really rich fruitcake with enough spirits to count as cake multipliers. In younger years he got it all wrong with this amateur effort:

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Nothing like enough icing on that, and too many flowers.

Eating cup cakes turns you gay. Fact.

[i]Over-decorated, over-sweet, overpriced.[/I]

Jeze, it's a slow day at moderator HQ.

Are they burgers or cakes, awe what the fem.. nom, nom, nom,nom

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Or..

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You just have to know where to buy them from don't you. Be careful, some of you are buying the rong'uns'

Nothwind - was your father a member of the Association of Master Bakers?

Mrs_oab has a certificate of merit as a Master Baker from them... 😆

Couldn't agree more with the o.p.

My Mrs falls for this sort of shit constantly.

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Oi Cath Kidston and all your arty farty wannabe cupcake designers. Get in the **** sea.

What a load of bone dry tasteless sugary tripe.

Well obviously they don't appeal to us manly, chest-beating, alpha males round these parts. We prefer cream horns and vanilla slices 🙂

However, you have to doff your cap to them as a) they're really quite pretty things and you're a liar if you said you wouldn't eat one for free, and b) it's cake!

You don't have to eat them, but simply welcome them into the multicultural, inclusive and ingrained-in-cycling world of cake based products.

Can you have a fruit cake based cup cake? Not fussed with icing, but fruit cake - hmmmmmmm!

That's how to sell sugar at high price.

They're not really made from real cups you know.

They're called buns.

Aye. Although I have to confess we had them at our wedding instead of a normal cake, but that's because fruitcake is ****ing rank, not because buns are particularly amazing or anything.

A lass my wife used to work with was able to give up her boring secretarial job after she set up making fancy, customised cupcakes on the side. They cost a bloody fortune. She works full time and is booked up nearly a year in advance, doing very nicely thenks. Fair enough, if you've found a way of parting idiots from their cash you might as well go for it...

Fair enough, if you've found a way of parting idiots from their cash you might as well go for it...

Although I have to confess we had them at our wedding

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Can you have a fruit cake based cup cake? Not fussed with icing, but fruit cake - hmmmmmmm!

I don't see why not. Surely the "cup cake" title refers to the format, rather than the contents, so theoretically you could have any cake type in "cup" form: chocolate cake, lemon drizzle, coffee and walnut, carrot, maybe even mini black forest gateaux (mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) etc etc

Drac - the mother-in-law paid for the food... 😀

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^ oi, cakes go on a ****ing plate!

*not this again*