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Cup cakes / Fairy cakes
What's the difference between a cup cake and a fairy cake ?
Is a cupcake just a fairy cake with the ingredients doubled up ? |
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There never used to be a difference, cup cakes was the American term, but now all shops brand them as cup cakes and pile the buttercream higher so they can charge £2.50 for them!
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Fairy cakes are smaller more delicate, simply decorated English cakes.
Cup cakes are bigger drowned in toppings flashy American cakes. |
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Cupcakes are definitely bigger, not twice the volume but I would say around a third to fifty per cent bigger.
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They have a different texture. Fairy cakes are made with a very light sponge. Cupcakes are denser and heavier. Fairy cakes are iced in the traditional way (icing sugar plus water), cupcakes are generally topped with frosting (much thicker and creamier, made with butter or cream cheese). They are not the same thing at all.
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