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Wed 08 Aug 2009Getting totally baked in Belfast at the cupcake festival
Cupcakes are catching on and now they have their own camp, with tickets a sell-out thanks to Twitter
LAVISHLY ICED with inch-thick pastel-coloured frosting, the cupcake is the undisputed queen of buns. Fairy-tale cute and shamelessly girly, they have names such as red velvet, diva and mojito – cupcakes are more like fetishised fashion statements than bakery items. Celebrities exchange them as chi-chi gifts (apparently Heidi Klum gave Victoria Beckham a year’s supply for her birthday last year), while an upsurge in boutique cupcake bakeries – as well as the cannier supermarkets – satisfy the popular appetite for these super-sweet American confections.
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