Ingredients For the cake. Place a little butter icing of your choice on the top of each cake and arrange the wings around the icing - round edge facing the outside and the cut edge to the inside and angled towards the bottom - like BUTTERFLY or FAIRY wings.

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If you want to add colouring to the vanilla cakes pink is really good with pink icing too.

Fairy cakes with butter icing. 225 g 8 oz sifted icing sugar 2-3tbsp warm water handful of sweets to decorate. The butter in the sponge can be replaced with vegan baking block. The butter in the buttercream can be replaced with mixture of baking block and vegan margarine.

225g8oz butter melted For the icing 170g6oz icing sugar 110g4oz butter 55g2oz cocoa powder sifted To decorate white chocolate buttons milk chocolate buttons. In terms of icing a simple glace one which can be coloured or decorated as you see fit works best with a fairy cake in my opinion buttercream should be saved for inferior versions which. Add in the flour and baking powder and mix until.

Preheat the oven to 180C350FGas 4 and prepare two 12-hole tartlet tins with fairy cake. Place 12 cake cases into a muffin tin. Ice the fairy cakes Measure out the icing sugar then add a few spoons of water.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius. 100 g 4 oz softened butter 100 g 4 oz caster sugar 2 large eggs 100 g 4 oz self-raising flour 1 level tsp baking powder For the icing. You dont want the icing.

Leave to cool on a wire rack. Divide the mixture between the fairy cake cases and bake for 15 minutes or until the fairy cakes are golden brown and spring back when touched in the middle. Alternatively a fairy cake is a type of cupcake with its top cut off and replaced in two pieces like wings.

Dust with extra icing sugar and watch them fly away. Conversely fairy cakes use a lighter glace icing. When ready to decorate cut out the center of each cupcake angling the knife at a 45º angle.

Mix it together until its smooth. These are also called butterfly cupcakes. Then cover your fairy cakes to take a walk on the wild side.

I once sprinkled on crystallised rose petals for a Christening Party I also used rose essence in the butter icing. Using a teaspoon spread some icing over the top of each fairy cake. They also are traditionally made with a lighter sponge cake as opposed to the thicker butter cakes used in cupcakes.

Remove cupcakes from the tin place on cooling rack and allow to cool completely. Cream the sugar and the butter together then mix in the flour. Use bold yellow and orange icing and mix in stripes and spots in browns and blacks as you roll out your icing to make animal prints.