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...cupcakes all of a sudden?
Everywhere you go or everything you watch there are cupcakes, and over priced ones at that.
Why the sudden explosion of this fancy eat?
SoulKiss
01-04-11, 11:12 AM
...cupcakes all of a sudden?
Everywhere you go or everything you watch there are cupcakes, and over priced ones at that.
Why the sudden explosion of this fancy eat?
They got big in the US - a bunch of cooking shows etc, so found their way across the pond.
Basic recipe
50g Self Raising Flour
50g Caster Sugar
1 Egg
1tsp Vanilla Essence
Then basic butter icing to top
That makes half a dozen, costs < £1 each, sell them for £2-£3 each in Central London = Massive Profit from the Fad.
Simples
Look at you, the Galloping Gourmet!
The price of them is amazing. Theres a place in Bluewater that they are about £3 each, for a frigging cake!
Sid Squid
01-04-11, 11:25 AM
Faddish stupidity, if this can slavishly follow a Yank lead so much the better.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
carelesschucca
01-04-11, 11:28 AM
Big Windows!!!
Big windows:confused::confused::confused:
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Depends if you're stupid enough to pay such ridiculous prices.
Sophie likes making them, to get as many clashing colours on them as she can.
SoulKiss
01-04-11, 01:21 PM
Look at you, the Galloping Gourmet!
The price of them is amazing. Theres a place in Bluewater that they are about £3 each, for a frigging cake!
That should be Vanilla Extract, not essence and I like to think of them as iCakes :p
If I'm bored on a Sunday while waiting for the dough for bread/rolls/pizza to prove, I throw 2 dozen in the oven and T takes most of them into work - no icing of course cos all the other girls are on diets...
Heresiarch
01-04-11, 01:32 PM
3 quid?! WHERE ARE MY OVEN MITTS
Big windows:confused::confused::confused:
If you paid £3 for a cupcake the shop must have big windows, cause they saw you coming. :)
andrewsmith
01-04-11, 03:11 PM
Big Windows!!!
Very Big Windows!!!
3 quid?! WHERE ARE MY OVEN MITTS
Agreed, fad end of!
Seen them the (un)cultured capital of the North for about that!!
You can get 6 ring doughnuts in Greggs for £2...
SoulKiss
01-04-11, 04:12 PM
You can get 6 ring doughnuts in Greggs for £2...
I have a recipe for those too....
Check the Megathread from a month or so ago
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