Butterfly Fairy Cakes Recipe

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Baking and cooking is a great fun activity for kids. Kids love nothing better than getting their sleeves rolled up in the kitchen. We have added our favourite butterfly fairy cake recipe as a printable pdf, so that you can print it off. These cakes are great for kids parties or just as a treat and the kids really enjoy making them.

Always remember to supervise kids in the kitchen and don't forget to get them involved in the washing up!

Butterfly Fairy Cakes

This recipe will make approx delicious cakes and they are best eaten on
the day that they are made!

Ingredients

For the Cakes

1 medium egg
50g (2oz) caster sugar
50g (2 oz) self-raising flour
50g (2oz) soft margarine
¼ teaspoon of baking powder
paper cases
baking tray

For the Butter Icing

40g (1 ½ oz) softened butter
75g (3oz) sifted icing sugar (plus a little extra for dusting)
5 teaspoons seedless raspberry jam
a few drops of vanilla essence

1. Pre-heat your oven to 190°C /375°F/gas mark 5.

2. Break the egg into a cup and place to the side. Sift the flour
along with the baking powder into a big bowl. Add the caster
sugar, egg from the cup and the margarine to the flour.

3. Mix all the ingredients together with a wooden spoon keep
mixing until you have a smooth and creamy mixture.

4. Place the paper cases onto the baking tray. Use a teaspoon to
half fill each of the cases with the cake mixture.

5. Place the baking tray with the cakes on into the oven and bake
for 16-18 minutes. Carefully remove the baking tray with cakes
from the oven and place the cakes (in their cases) on a wire
rack to cool.

6. You can now make the icing. Put the butter into a bowl and
then add the vanilla essence. Stir the butter and vanilla
together until the mixture is really creamy.

7. Add a little of the icing sugar to the butter mixture and mix it in.
Keep adding the icing sugar bit by bit until it is all mixed in.

8. Use a sharp knife to carefully cut a circle from the top of each
cake. Cut each circle in half across the middle.

9. Gently spread some of the butter icing onto the top of each
cake. Then add a little of the raspberry jam in a line down the
centre of the butter icing.

10. Carefully push the two half slices (that you cut from the cake
earlier) into the icing to create the butterfly wings.

11. Sift a little icing over the top to finish.