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Summer Fairies

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

Everyone loves a fairy cake, especially children. You don't have to be a big kid though to enjoy these scrumptious bites,

150 ml	Vegetable Oil
2	Free Range Eggs (Happy Eggs)
1 tsp	strawberry or vanilla extract
75 grams	Golden Caster Sugar (Billington's)
150 grams	Self Raising Flour (Allinson Nature Friendly)

Icing

50 grams	salted butter
100 grams	Icing Sugar (Silver Spoon Homegrown)
	Sprinkle Decorations (Silver Spoon Create)

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Preheat the oven to 170c/fanm 150c/ gasmark 3
Line a muffin tray with 10-12 paper cases
whisk together the oil, eggs and the strawberry or vanilla extract
Add the sugar and flour and mix until well blended
Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake until golden on top
Insert the tip of a knife into the cases and it should pull away clean
Allow to cool on a rack
Once cooled, draw a sharp knife slighttly in at an angle around the top of the cake so that you cut a little section away. Cut it in half to make wings
Icing:
In a bowl, slightly warm the butter to soften and add the icing sugar a little at a time until you get the consistency you want
Spoon the icing on to each cake, making sure to place the wings at angles into the butter icing
Dot the sprinkles over each cake