Cup Cakes Make Me Vom

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I think people (women) who have issues with chocolate need a good hard slap. Sorry! Grow up.
 
I'd prefer to have some nice cheese rather than cake or chocolate.:blush:
 
I like the occasional cupcake but I hate the connotations that now go with them ie that they're somehow a posher version of the humble fairy cake. It's such an American thing and it annoys me that the world and their mother now has a cupcake business, they're bloody everywhere! There are at least three cupcake shops within a three minute walk of our office and if someone braks wind we're expected to go get cupcakes to celebrate....
 
BurlyBeaR said:
I think people (women) who have issues with chocolate need a good hard slap. Sorry! Grow up.
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LilacTree said:
And I think that grown men who use teddy bears as avatars need a good hard slap too. I'm not sorry, grow up.
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Helmets!

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It's yet another thing inherited from the yanks. They're just iced fairy cakes so why can't we call them that? Bad for your teeth, your waistline and full of E numbers. Yum yum.
 
LilacTree said:
Please, no more! Just had to have another Creme Egg! (buying a box of 6 today seemed like a good idea, I could have 1 a day you see...)

I'll just miss my Tuesday egg to make up for it. As long as nobody starts another foodporn thread of course :confused:
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I daren't buy those boxes of creme eggs, I've never yet been able to ration myself to just the one:)
 
Well the link to the cake making stuff shows three items. None of which appear to be anything to do with cupcakes. They can't do a whole hour on just three items surely?
 
I have a pic someone sent me of a whole tray of cupcakes. I was tempted to put it on here, but I think it would have been censored. I think there was a brief spot on TV recently about a woman who makes those particular shaped cup cakes, they were very realistic.

Did anyone see this, and know what I'm talking about?
 
stratobuddy said:
I have a pic someone sent me of a whole tray of cupcakes. I was tempted to put it on here, but I think it would have been censored. I think there was a brief spot on TV recently about a woman who makes those particular shaped cup cakes, they were very realistic.

Did anyone see this, and know what I'm talking about?
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I know the one's you mean Stratobuddy. Quite anatomically correct as I recall. Not the sort to hand out at a vicars tea party.
 
LilacTree said:
Just had to have another Creme Egg! (buying a box of 6 today seemed like a good idea, I could have 1 a day you see...
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I can see you're new this Lilac, hands up everyone who has done this and succeeded? - NEVER buy more than one at a time!

LilacTree said:
I'll just miss my Tuesday egg to make up for it.
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Yeah right! - says reformed chocoholic :angel:
 
As Tinkerbelle said, the website is now only showing 5 items, so its hardly going to be a 'must watch' show.

(BurlyBear is getting very rattled lately over everything !)
 
brissles said:
As Tinkerbelle said, the website is now only showing 5 items, so its hardly going to be a 'must watch' show.

(BurlyBear is getting very rattled lately over everything !)
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Maybe I should dose up on chocolate and chill out
 
I'd rather have a cup/fairy cake than a creme egg any day!!

What I can't get over is the prices that are attached to these things. I could make them at home for a year for the cost of one box of six from our local market!!
 
There is a bakery in a town not so far from here which specialises in all this cupcake faff, and it is called "Fudgie Wudgy Cupcakey" - inconsistent "quirky" spelling and all! ..... :puke::puke::puke::puke:
 
I was seriously contemplating setting up a small home cupcake business but decided against it in the end. To make a proper profit I'd need to sell them for £2.50 each at least. I did the food hygiene course (£60), bought public liability insurance (£60. You have to have this), got my kitchen inspected by the local council (you have to do this when opening a food business), bought a KitchenAid (factory second for £310), spent over £100 on cases, ingredients, special food colouring, piping bags and nozzles, storage containers. I wanted to make quality cupcakes (not that cr&p you get in supermarkets or stuff some people try to sell) and that means quality ingredients. With each cupcake costing around 75p just to make, I just couldn't see it being a viable business on a small scale. Also, if you don't sell everything, you're stuck with stock you have to chuck. There are too many cupcake sellers too and I decided in the end that it was a fad which probably wouldn't last more than a year or 2 before the public got sick of them. So I decided against it in the end. Its hard work for small margins and unless you have an industrial size oven so you can bake a hundred at a time, it's very time consuming. I'm not sure people are prepared, where I live, to pay that much for a small cake. Maybe in London, but not round my way. Glad I didn't pursue it further in the end.
 
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I think you decided wisely flamenco. Its a fad that'll be over with by next year and everyone has moved on to something else.

I have a friend that orders cupcakes for the most silly reasons, I showed her 11 year old daughter how to make fairy cakes and she was so impressed at the taste of them. Really such a basic thing to bake and I think that my friend now realises her local cupcake business is charging 3 or 4 times what she could make them herself for. (obviously they have the expenses that you came up against too)

I understand that to have a business making them then you'd need to charge a lot but I just don't understand why people will pay the same for one cupcake as for a whole cake!
 

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