The next new craze for cakes is due to hit our shores in the next few months. Savoury cupcakes are currently big in America, where flavours such as pizza and hamburger flavour are popular among cake buyers.

The cupcakes are made as normal but baked with flavourings from different savoury flavours . The buttercream is also enhanced with the flavours of Pizzas, cheeseburgers and even steak and cheese flavour.

It all started by accident in a small town outside Texas, USA when the bakers of a small bakery firm accidentally poured bacon bits into the cake mix. Billy Smith from Billy¹s Bakery in Brushy Creek, Texas says ³We didn¹t want to waste the mixture after the Bacon Bits had been accidentally put into the mixture, so we carried on making the cupcakes and surprisingly they tasted good, and the costumers agreed. After that we started to develop different savoury flavours and they have been selling like hot cakes².

A new batch of cupcake flavours are currently being developed for British tastes, these include roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, with a horseradish butter cream, and fish and chips flavour with tartare sauce buttercream.

Jessica Taylor who owns a thriving Cake Decorating Business in Brighton called Cake Life is not quite so sure the cakes will take off over here. She says she has been busy working on the more traditional flavour for Cupcakes and Wedding Cakes but if an order came in for fish and chips cupcakes she would give it a go.

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