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21:25 Jun 9, 2013 

Coffee morning, nice thought. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we live in the same part of the country.

20:54 Jun 9, 2013 

'ere, not so much of the short-lived, if you don't mind§ I hope I've still got a few years ahead of me yet...

Actually, researching for this made me decide to do some more baking; probably be enough for a WI cake stall... or at least a coffee morning. I'll let you know if anything comes out of the oven alive.

20:51 Jun 9, 2013 

Yes, I've heard them called that too - and after all, the two aren't really that different: short-lived, colourful, winged...

20:36 Jun 9, 2013 

Ah yes... my Mum called those 'butterfly cakes' — though sadly, regardless of whatever she said she was going to make, they almost always turned out like rock-cakes ;-)

And now I have the same problem — whatever I try and bake, it comes out a fairy cake :-))

20:31 Jun 9, 2013 

For me, what made them fairy cakes was slicing off the rounded top, cutting the piece in two and then sticking the two halves back on (preferably with butter icing, yum!) back to back like wings. Infinitely superior to anything of Mr Kipling's!

08:17 Jun 8, 2013 

Exactly! But a British cupcake is something slightly different; here is an image of a typical one:

http://www.englishcakelady.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/EC...

These are of course only one subset of all 'cupcakes', but the kind possibly most familiar to British cake-lovers; this looks like an industrial one, similar to the vile but immensely popular 'Mr Kipling' range.

The key feature of the cupcake is the flat top and thick fondant icing; it is 'cup' because of course they are baked in individual paper 'cups' ('baking cases').

My Mum always used to differentiate 'fairy cakes' (usually with fancier toppings) and flat-topped 'cupcakes'; it could be that was just family usage.

Anecdote: when she'd burnt the tops of the fairy cakes, she'd cut them off and they'd suddenly become cupcakes ;-)

07:58 Jun 8, 2013 

I didn't know there was a difference between American and British cupcakes? For me "cupcake" is just the American term for a British "fairy cake".

07:47 Jun 8, 2013 

j'avais eu l'occasion de relire des fiches cuisine américaines dont les cupcakes et faute d'arguments, je n'avais pas traduit!
pour les British cupcakes, j'irai faire un tour chez Marks & Spencer, ils traduisent les étiquettes!

07:20 Jun 8, 2013 

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07:18 Jun 8, 2013 

It depends! If you mean an American cupcake, then I have seen the EN term also used in FR (and cf. also 'muffin'). However, if you mean a British cupcake, then I have never actually seen one of those over here in France, and I'm not sure if the term would be understood in the same way.

07:13 Jun 8, 2013 

à propos
doit-on traduire cupcake en français et comment?
thanks