How to Bake Fairy Cakes

Yields: 24

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 1o mins

Ingredients needed to make Fairy Cakes:

• 4 oz self-raising flour
• 4 oz butter, softened
• 2 tbsp milk
• 4 oz caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten

For the icing:

• 10 ½ oz icing sugar
• 3 drops food colouring
• 3 tbsp water
• Chocolate vermicelli

Cooking instructions for Fairy Cakes:

• Warm up your oven to 350 degrees F and place paper liners into cups of two 12-well fairy pans.
• Place the butter in a bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle sugar into it.
• Beat them together until they are mixed thoroughly into a pale yellow, fluffy mixture.
• Drizzle the beaten eggs into it in a thin, continuous stream while whisking them into the mixture until full incorporated.
• Add a splash of vanilla extract into it and stir it into the mixture until mixed well.
• Dust flour into it, in batches, while folding it into the mixture with the help of large metal spoon, until all of it are used up to form a thick batter.
• Add a splash of milk and stir it in to thin out the batter slightly and divide it among the prepared pans, so that half of each paper-lined well remains filled.
• Bake them in the hot oven for 10 minutes or until their surface turns golden brown and they are baked through.
• Remove from the oven and set aside for 10 minutes to cool slightly.
• Remove them from the pans and arrange them on a wire rack to cool completely.
• While the cakes bake, prepare the icing my sifting the icing sugar in a large bowl and add a splash of water into it.
• Stir them together into a smooth blend and whisk in the food colouring until the colour is distributed evenly.
• Spoon the icing on top of the cooled cakes and allow it trickle down the sides.
• Sprinkle the chocolate vermicelli on top and set aside until the icing is set.
• Serve at room temperature.

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Last Updated on May 28, 2013 by