I'm making fairy cakes for the kids at school. One bright spark asked the question! Can anyone help me please? Child friendly answers please!
2006-11-14 04:10:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
According to 'A Dictionary of fairies,' The small, homely Fairies, as in the Worcestershire story of the BROKEN PED and its variants, bake small, delicious cakes which they give to their benefactors.
The little cakes called fairy cakes, are small like the ones the fairies made, made for, and often by children, who like fairy stories, and are often made to resemble fairies, by cutting the top off, and making wings with it, as previously explained to you.
2006-11-14 04:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by FairyBlessed 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fairy cakes are cupcakes. Fairies are generally very small creatures so a cupcake to them would be the same size as a regular cake to us humans.
2006-11-14 12:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Now days, its the sparking frosting on the small cakes.
I suppose the origin is from "tea time" and tea with cakes outside in the sitting tables. A clever way to get the children to eat the cakes, at that point were only sweetened with dried fruit. It was a "magical" item.
Best wishes
2006-11-14 12:17:17 · answer #3 · answered by Denise W 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
actually, lore has it you are supposed to leave out cakes and other sweet items so the Fairys don't get upset with you and cause you grief.
2006-11-14 12:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by oppsupsideurhead 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
random guess here...
is it because they look like tthe silhouettes of fairies?
the ones with the tops cut off are called butterfly cakes
2006-11-14 12:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by ♫ ♥green heather butterfly♥ ♫ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Asheypoo is right - that's how fairy cakes get their name !
2006-11-14 12:18:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
the fairys make them
2006-11-14 18:30:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cut the top off to put icing on, then cut the piece in half, put it in the icing, and it makes the fairy wings!
2006-11-14 12:12:12 · answer #8 · answered by ashypoo 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
hmmm I dont know but you could tell them that the inventor of the recipe was mr.Fairy, or if they are young enough you could say that the fairies came up with the receipe and so named them after themselves.
2006-11-14 12:12:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
It was because whoever wrote the recipe was always stoned
2006-11-14 12:14:06 · answer #10 · answered by Miki P 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋