Simple butterfly cakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Makes Cakes
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Ingredients
For the cake
- 2 eggs
- 110g (4oz) self-raising flour
- 110g (4oz) butter/margarine
- 110g (4oz) Caster sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
For the icing
- 220g (8oz) icing sugar
- 110g (4oz) butter
- Milk
Method
- STEP 1Preheat the oven to 180C (fan)/200C (electric)/Gas mark 6
- STEP 2Lay out 12 cake cases in a bun tin
- STEP 3Mix the sugar, flour and baking powder together
- STEP 4Add the butter/margarine and eggs
- STEP 5Whisk all of it together
- STEP 6Using a teaspoon, fill the cake cases with the mixture (be sure to give them a fair amount)
- STEP 7Put the tray in the oven for around 15 mins or until they are golden brown
- STEP 8Take them out of the oven and place on a cooling rack
- STEP 9Make the icing by whisking the butter and half the sugar together, once they are mixed add the rest of the sugar and a dash of milk, continue whisking
- STEP 10Use a sharp knife to cut a upside-down, shallow cone shape out the top of the cake, cut this in half. Fill the hole in the cake with icing and then place the cut out cake on top (like wings.) Sprinkle some icing sugar on top of your cakes