Scottish recipes - Fairy Cakes

Last week my neighbour had a fairy ring in her front lawn, in case you don't know what a fairy ring is, it's a ring of mushrooms forming a circle, it's very special

Being the creative person that she is, she immediately dressed her 18 month old in a fairy costume and took pictures of her in the fairy ring, the cuteness levels were off the chart

So I got to thinking about Fairy Cakes

Fairy Cakes

Fairy Cakes are actually British cupcakes and as a child my mum would make these ALL the time, basically Fairy Cakes are a light sponge cake with icing piped on top and maybe a bit sprinkle or decoration here and there

If you want to get creative you can make little fairy wings on top, and as a child I loved these ones
This is the type I am making today

Scottish Fairy Cakes

The winged variety also go by the name of Angel Cakes and Butterfly Cakes

So here is my super easy, go to recipe

Makes 12

You will need

4oz/100g Self Raising Flour
4oz/100g Butter
4oz/100g Sugar
2 Eggs
1tsp Baking Powder
1tsp Vanilla Extract
2 tbsp Milk

For the icing
4oz/100g Powdered Icing Sugar
3oz/75g Butter

• Pre-heat oven to 200C/400F

• In a large bowl, break up the butter into small pieces then add in all other ingredients (except the milk) 

Ingredients

• Using a hand mixer (or you can use a food processor) beat together until smooth

Mix well

• Add in the milk and mix again until a thinner mixture is made

Add milk

Cake mixture

• Lay out cake cases onto a muffin tray (I double them up to help with shape and to keep the cases clean) Spoon the mixture evenly between the 12 cases

Mixture in cases

• Bake in oven for 10 minutes until golden and risen

Fairy Cakes

• To make the icing, in a large bowl, sift the powdered icing sugar

Powdered icing sugar

• Break up the butter and add it into the sugar

add butter

• Cream the butter and sugar together to form a paste

Butter Icing

• Once cakes cool, cut the tops off, leaving a rim on the edge

Fairy cake top off

• Cut the "lid" in two to make two wings

Fairy cake wings

• Pipe the butter icing onto the cake (I just used a food bag with the corner snipped off) and add the wings on top

• Dust lightly with powdered icing sugar or sprinkles

Fairy Cake

Fairy Cakes

• Enjoy

So I am floating back to my childhood again with these delicious little Fairy Cakes, and they taste exactly as I remember them

These are heavenly

I hope you make time to enjoy cupcakes Fairy Cakes today

Angela

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