If cupcakes are your cup of tea, Fancie this?
CUPCAKE Queen Amanda Perry has opened her first shop, Fancie, selling the little cakes to take away or sit down and enjoy with a cuppa.
The shop, on Sharrow Vale Road, Hunters Bar, is the same name as the business she started from her own kitchen in March last year.
"It will be just cupcakes to start off with and a couple of tables before we can extend the cafe after we have got planning permission for change of use," says Amanda.
The premises used to be a private house before the conversion.
"Sheffield needs a really good cake shop and we won't be competing with more traditional ones."
There will be a couple of other cakes on offer, perhaps tray bakes or a layer cake, but she will be concentrating on the cupcakes she has become renowned for.
"Cupcakes, they're just lovely. It's a nostalgia, tea time thing and they're so versatile. You can use them for weddings and parties," she says.
"They can get away with so much more than an ordinary cake!"
Cupcakes have had a boost in recent years since featuring heavily in the TV series Sex and the City and their sweetness appeals to the female palate.
In Britain we used to know them as fairy cakes, mainly aimed at children, but in America they became known as cupcakes. There are two explanations for the name. The first is they were originally baked in cups as the right-sized tins were not then available.
The second is that they reflected the American use of cups as a measuring device, so recipes would call for one cup of butter, two cups of sugar and so on.
The icing which is a principal feature of modern cupcakes followed later.
Top flavour is the Snickerlicious, a mixture of chocolate, caramel and peanut butter and carrot as well as the '99' which looks like a chocolate flake.
Prices aren't cheap. A cake costs 1.95.
Fancie has now moved out of Amanda's kitchen and has a bakery on Carlisle Street. It's her aim to open a second shop in Sheffield or Leeds.
n Visit www.fancie.co.uk
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