Fairy cakes
Fairy cakes

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, fairy cakes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fairy cakes is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Fairy cakes is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook fairy cakes using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fairy cakes:
  1. Take cakes
  2. Prepare 4 oz margarine
  3. Get 4 oz caster sugar
  4. Take 2 medium eggs
  5. Take 6 oz self raising flour
  6. Prepare icing sugar
  7. Prepare 9 oz icing sugar
  8. Take 3 tbsp cold water
  9. Take 1 tbsp sugar strands

These are also called butterfly cupcakes. Fairy cakes are one of the first things I learnt to bake and now they are my quick and easy go-to bake with the kids. One thing I love about them though is not only are they easy, you can also adapt the recipe to change the flavours up. Fairy cakes are a must for any kids party or celebration, and you can't go far wrong with Frances Atkins' cupcake recipe, as she provides three different frosting flavours to choose from; blackcurrant, vanilla cream cheese or maple syrup.

Steps to make Fairy cakes:
  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C
  2. Place 20 small baking cases onto two flat baking trays and put to one side for later
  3. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and margarine with a wooden spoon until light and fluffy
  4. Crack the two eggs into a separate bowl and whisk together. Slowly beat this into the sugar/margarine mixture a little at a time
  5. Fold in the flour
  6. Place a heaped teaspoon of mixture into every baking case
  7. Bake in the oven for 15-20 mins then leave to cool
  8. To make the icing, sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and slowly add the water a little at a time until it becomes a smooth paste
  9. Once the cakes are cool put a little icing on the middle of each cake and sprinkle with sugar strands

One thing I love about them though is not only are they easy, you can also adapt the recipe to change the flavours up. Fairy cakes are a must for any kids party or celebration, and you can't go far wrong with Frances Atkins' cupcake recipe, as she provides three different frosting flavours to choose from; blackcurrant, vanilla cream cheese or maple syrup. Get creative with your decorations and you can easily adapt these to fit any occasion. Cupcakes Pies Macarons Cake Pops + More Weddings Parties Events Contact. Hi Louise, after some research and polls to ask about butterfly cakes vs. fairy cakes from Scots and people from the rest of the UK, it seems that a minority of people call these "fairy cakes." Fairy cakes are the flat topped cupcakes with pastel colored icing.

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