About our simple fa
Fairy cakes are a great recipe to introduce your children to baking and are a fun activity for the whole family to enjoy together. In just 25 minutes you'll have made a batch of 12 delicious fairy cakes.
Decorate with a little drizzly icing and plenty of sprinkles, or go for the full butterfly effect.
Take your cupcakes to the next level with our delicious vanilla cupcake recipe.
Method
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 170°C (fan 150°C, gas mark 3). Line a muffin tray with 10-12 paper cases.
Step 2:
Beat together the butter and sugar, then add in the eggs one at a time mixing between each addition. Add the vanilla extract.
Step 3:
Carefully fold in the flour until just incorporated.
Step 4:
Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden on top. Insert the tip of a knife into the cases to check that they are baked throughout. If they are ready the knife should be clean when removed from the sponge.
Step 5:
Allow to cool on a rack.
Step 6:
To make the icing, add a few drops of water to the icing sugar until the consistency becomes smooth and glossy. Add more water if needed, or if the icing becomes too runny add a touch more icing sugar to thicken.
Step 7:
Spoon the icing on to each cake and decorate with a handful of coloured sprinkles.
Ingredients
For the Cakes
- 100g Butter
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
- 100g Silver Spoon Caster Sugar
- 100g Allinson's Self Raising White Flour
For the Icing
- 150g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
- Handful Sprinkle decorations
- 150g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
Utensils
- Cupcake case
- Mixing bowl
Recipe Reviews
Fan 150 really DOES NOT WORK. I tried it and served to my family but on the inside they werre all gooey. Everyone was so dissapointed
Add the sugar befor the egg all over 5 star
This did not work
I’m 9 years old and made them by my self they puffed up nicely we put a bit of lemon icing on it and it tasted amazing !!! 😘From Lucy 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋
Yum
Just delicious!! We doubled the mixture to make 24, left at 185C rather than 150C and after 20 minutes, a quick knife check showed they were ready. We left them to cool in their cake trays and they turned out perfectly. Iced like the picture above but topped with dinosaur wafers instead as a treat for our little boy. Will definitely be making these cakes again!
Ingredients
For the Cakes
- 100g Butter
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
- 100g Silver Spoon Caster Sugar
- 100g Allinson's Self Raising White Flour
For the Icing
- 150g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
- Handful Sprinkle decorations
- 150g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
Utensils
- Cupcake case
- Mixing bowl