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For the icing

Nutrition: per cake

  • kcal331
  • fat22g
  • saturates13g
  • carbs39g
  • sugars27g
  • fibre0g
  • protein2g
  • salt0.5g

Method

  • step 1

    Ask a grown-up helper to turn the oven on to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put a paper case in hole of a 12-hole bun tin.

  • step 2

    Put the sugar and butter (it must be soft or you won’t be able to mix it properly) in a bowl and mix it together. Sift in the flour.

  • step 3

    Break the eggs into a separate bowl (spoon out any bits of shell that fall in) and add them to the bowl with the vanilla. Mix everything together.

  • step 4

    Divide between the cases using a spoon, scraping it off with a knife. Ask a grown-up helper to put the tray in the oven for 20 minutes.

  • step 5

    Mix the butter and icing sugar to make a creamy icing. Add colouring, if you like. Push an icing nozzle into an icing bag, then scoop in the icing.

  • step 6

    Let the cakes cool completely in the tray. Pipe icing onto each cake and decorate with marshmallows or sprinkles, or whatever you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2010

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liz_mckenzie63961

I think the quantities for butter icing may be incorrect! Usually it would be twice as much icing sugar as butter, ie; 100gm butter and 200gm icing sugar ?

markcasey311254533

I asked my mum and dad to turn the oven for me, but they said that i was 40 now and put the phone down on me.

hed20parkerb38126

question

where oh where can my baby be the lord took her away from me

hed20parkerb38126

i folllowed this recipe and im VERY VERY VERY VERY disappointed. do better bbc good food. for crying out loud

ardmore82Jsunqd4

This is a basic recipe I was taught it 60 years ago and still use it. The secret is spending time making sure that the butter is soft and the sugar and butter are very well beaten. Make sure the flour is sieved and be a little more gentle and a lot quicker adding the egg and flour. Great exercise…

marionlawson126956

question

Oops! There’s no mention of SR flour in your easy fairy cakes recipe.

lisalisa7852356

Self raising flour is definitely there in the recipe

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