'Cupcake' instead of fairy cake or bun

I always name them "fairy cakes". The same way as my mum used to. I like baking them for my three-year-old princess. I usually put them to my cupcake carrier (like the last one from this article: www.justinscafe.com/cupcake-carriers/) and organize some kind of a fancy tea party. It's our sweet tradition.

*lester that should read

Should have said, my post about pikelets refer to kitty letters post!

Wow, that brought back memories! The stall owners seemed to be the same people for years and years, I used to buy some on my way back from shopping in town when I was a teenager in Derby in the 70's. I have never seen them for sale down south where I live now.
On the cup cake debate, I have just made up a quantity of buttercream to ice 24 little cakes ( previously known as fairy cakes) and realised that shop bought expensive cup cakes use the same quantity just to ice one cake - 150g butter and 150g of icing sugar!

Right enough, Anagram - in the 50's,if a child was plump (bonny), it was a nice thing to be, after all the rationing etc. However, knowing my grandma, she did mean 'fat'....!

Yes, it definitely was a compliment. My Yorkshire grandma would always say of plump babies 'Isn't he/she bonny?' with a big beam - it was considered a good thing to have a well-rounded baby.

When my late MiL who came from Yorkshire asked 'is he bonny', about our son, she meant chubby and it was meant to be a good thing. I suppose it was a compliment for her generation who had known hunger and deprivation.

A friend of my mother who was born in Gibraltar and had Spanish as her first language was deeply offended when she first moved to Britain and a neighbour took one look at her beautiful blonde baby daughter and said "Oh how fair she is!". To her "fer" meant ugly.

OK. Here goes.....What's a stottie?

Do you realise there are 242calories in a stottie?

I think I have confused things with stottie cake get them packed jingle and no tears.

Don't worry, jeni, we knew what you meant!

By the other meaning I meant fat not lesbian!

Agree with grrrranny ' Horrible things cupcakes- garishly-coloured, thickly-iced with butter icing . Just the look of them makes me feel queasy' The texture of the cake -as with American muffins is revolting.- nothing like the crispy sponge of freshly-baked 'butterfly cakes' I used to make with my DDs.
I do like cake but prefer a solid chunky fruit cake,flapjack or maybe a lemon drizzle cake.
I certainly won't be putting on weight eating cup cakes.

and stop having a conversation with myslelf.

Deep and meaningful as it is.

That went wrong. Too many "I was born on a Sunday"

Must get these grandkids fed and packed up to go home.

I was born on a Sunday.

I'm definitely all those things. But not gay. I was born on a Sunday.

Sometimes I'm a bit good.

I know a song about pease pudding. I used to play it on my recorder.

A long time ago.

It's another world.

I love a stottie cake. Especially with ham, pease pudding and mustard.

Unfortunately I think the other meaning is more me!

Well, there you are then - bonny and blithe, and good and gay. I'm sure it means pretty in the rhyme!

Definitely hetero, I think. Never felt a sexual desire for a woman so I presume not gay in that sense!
In the old fashioned meaning , I can be!

Are you gay, too?

So what of the child that is born on the sabbath day? As I was