Cupcakes, overdressed, over iced, over here.
There are many types of stalls at our farmers’ markets; cup cakes stalls aren’t amongst them. I banned them a few years ago and we’ve never relented. Some of our home made cake makers have them on their stalls, along with a range of other cakes. I’ll turn a blind eye to a bit of what I regard as bad taste. But it’s in context along with a range of other cakes.
When I was a child cup cakes were made by Lyons and came in boxes of six. Indifferent sponge topped with a layer of thick over sweet solid chocolate icing that crept into the crevices of the foil container. That was the best bit, extracting every nodule of sweetness from the foil. The cake itself was always disappointingly dry & uninteresting.
