Dear GNHQ

I agree with bags. If it's individual size we called it a bun, (if the top was cut off, halved and put back on butter cream as 'wings' it was a butterfly bun). If it needed cutting up it was a cake. 'Cup cake' is, I think, an Americanism.

They were called Fairy Cakes in my day...(well, my childhood! )

jings you're on the wrong thread. The "buns" thread "Love the message" is closer to the bottom of the threads list.

After all the tosh correspondence on politics/newspapers/weighty issues it is a huge relief to get back to serious threads about cake, cupcakes, buns and (maybe pretty please?) chocolate hobnobs baked goods.
Happy!!

Not sure how that holds up after you've added butter though!

Iced buns are the lowest calorie buns you can buy.

#studieditcarefully

I call a cake a bun too. Not always, but you can't rule it out. A cake is sweeter and prettier than a bun, though it doesn't have to be iced. a bun is probably plainer, but not necessarily.

Then again, you can get iced buns, which are made of yeast dough and very nice split and spread with butter.

bags you can't call a cake a bun!

ie:

Chelsea bun
Iced bun
Currant bun

Madeira cake
Lemon drizzle cake
Cut-and-come-again cake

Oh. And is it LucyGNHQ's birthday today please?

I think that's all for now.

Or even 'bun', which is what we always called them. A cake is like this (not always with candles).

And can you make the blueing of links show up better, please. (Save doing another request )