🎂Baking/Deserts
Fairy Cakes
A classic fairy cakes with Makes 5 Buns, Icing - optional (see notes 1, lemon juice (see note 2). Perfect for one.
20 min
Prep
40 min
Cook
Medium
Difficulty
12
Ingredients
8
Steps
Ingredients
Servings
- Makes 5 Buns
- Icing - optional (see notes 1, 2 & 3)
- 50 gm self raising flour
- 200 gm icing sugar
- 60 gm caster sugar
- 1 tbspn water
- 50 gm unsalted butter
- 1 tbspn lemon juice (see note 2)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/8 tspn yellow food colouring (see note 2)
- 1 tspn vanilla or ¾ tspn almond extract (or to taste) (see note 4)
- 1 medium egg
Method
- 1
Preheat the oven to 190° C.
- 2
Buns
- 3
Soften the butter.
- 4
Add the flour, sugar, butter, salt, vanilla (or almond) and the egg to a bowl and beat well until the mixture is smooth.
- 5
Put 5 fairy cake paper cases into a bun tin and, using a teaspoon, share the mixture evenly between the cases.
- 6
Icing - optional - (see notes 2 & 3)
- 7
In a bowl add the icing sugar, water, lemon juice and colouring and mix until smooth.
- 8
This produces ample icing to fully cover the 5 buns.
Notes
- Preheat the oven to 190° C.
- Buns
- Soften the butter.
- Add the flour, sugar, butter, salt, vanilla (or almond) and the egg to a bowl and beat well until the mixture is smooth.
- Put 5 fairy cake paper cases into a bun tin and, using a teaspoon, share the mixture evenly between the cases.
- Icing - optional - (see notes 2 & 3)
- In a bowl add the icing sugar, water, lemon juice and colouring and mix until smooth.
- This produces ample icing to fully cover the 5 buns.