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Am about to put the oven on for a mammoth baking session - one for tea with SIL tomorrow, some brownie for tuck for DS & his friends at school (so a huge amount then :roll: ), and a cake for M&D when they come over to let the houndlets & chookles out for a comfort break whilst we are out....not sure I could be doing with cup - sorry FAIRY cakes to cover that amount of necessities!! And certainly couldn't afford to buy the blooming things!!

 

Sha x

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very nice Egluntine, can I come too?

 

:? need we take out a loan with the amount of cakies we'll get through.

 

Cupcakes is the Amercian term for our fairy cakes - very similar, except that as with most things stateside, theirs are larger and have more icing on. The trend for pretty icing is French though.

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Yup, you can get them almost anywhere. I've even foudn them at Te$co when I used to shop there.

 

Let me know if you can't find any and I can always send you a few.

 

There's a wonderful cookshop near me, which stocks vintage style fairy cak cases and silver/gold ones too. I used the latter when I baked the 'cupcakes' for Rosie's birthday.

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I insist on fairy cakes in our house as I always make the traditional sized yorkshire pudd sized ones........... and I can have two of them without feeling nearly so guilty as I would with two huge great muffin sized cup cakes - or the wrappers at least :oops: - sitting in front of me!!!

 

Most of the cupcakes on these sites and in the very expensive cake shops are works of art, unlike mine, which if they are lucky, get a splodge of chocolate spread or vanilla butter icing smeared over the top or a drizzling of melted chocolate or lemon/orange glace icing due to the fact that I am invariably running late or simply too lazy to pipe anything :oops::oops: ! Of course there's always the reason that they don't last long enough to get decorated anyway, which is often the case!

 

Sha x

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Cor I am in the wrong job! :wink:

 

I make a lot of fairy cakes (cup cakes, whatever!) as they are so easy (my recipe is a chuck it all in one that I have found works best).

 

I make them both in muffin tin in muffin cases (like american cupcases) and also in normal patty tin in cake cases and find the 'normal' ones better as you can eat two and get lots of nice icing and also my son tends to only eat the top and leave the cake!!! :lol:

 

I like making them like the butterfly cakes (cutting out a circle out the top and filling with buttercream and placing the cut-out bit back in) as reminds me of when I was little and my mum made them.

 

Michelle

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