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Fairy Cakes Recipe

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Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
125g butter (softened)
125g self-raising flour
125g caster sugar
2 large eggs (room temperature, not cold)
Half a teaspoon of vanilla extract/essence
2-3 tablespoons of milk

Extras: raspberries, jam, icing, lemon juice/icing sugar (see below)
Directions:
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 200C (fan 180C). Put cup cake cases in tin.

Cream butter and sugar until lighter and fluffy.

Add vanilla essence and mix. Then one egg (lightly beaten with a fork to mix the yolk into the white) and mix. Then a spoonful of flour and mix and finally the final egg (lightly beaten).

Add rest of flour.

Then add enough milk to make the mixture smooth and dropping consistency.

Divide between the cases and put in oven for 15-20 min until golden brown.

Take out of tin and leave to cool on wire rack.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
12-ish
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Of course you can then ice the cakes using royal icing or butter icing.

Butter icing: 2:1, icing sugar to butter. So, eg, 280g icing sugar to 140g butter. The butter needs to be soft but not melted - gets too oily. If its too oily, put it in the fridge and try again when its harder.

You can flavour butter icing with some cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate - too sweet), or bit of lemon zest/orange zest (just grate it off). To be fancy buttercream, beat in 1-2 tbsp of milk and 0.25 to 0.5 tsp vanilla extract.

Normal icing:

Other ideas:
- Raspberry surprise: put half the mix in the cake case, then add a raspberry and then cover with more mixture.
- Mini victoria sponges: once the cakes are cooled, take off the case carefully, cut the cake in half and spread with jam before putting back together.
- Chocolate cakes: substitute 2 tbsp of flour for 2 tbsp of cocoa powder.

 

 

 

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