Fairy Cakes

11 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 7 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup self-rising cake flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 -3 tablespoons milk
  • Icing
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 egg white
  • 3 -4 drops lemon juice
  • food coloring

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. 2
    Line a 12 cup muffin tin with baking cups.
  3. 3
    Put all the ingredients except for the milk into a food processor and blend until smooth. Pulse while adding the milk down the funnel to make for a soft consistency.
  4. 4
    It doesn't seem like enough, but you can get enough into each baking cup, just scrape it all out and try to fill each one equally.
  5. 5
    Bake for 15-20 minutes or until they are golden on top.
  6. 6
    Cool on a wire rack, but remove from the tin as soon as possible.
  7. 7
    Before you decorate, slice off any mounded tops so you have a flat surface to decorate. Icing: Mix the sugar, egg white and lemon juice in a small bowl until smooth and creamy, it should have the consistency of heavy cream I always break the batch into smaller batches so I can have different colors When my girlfriend made these for my shower, she frosted them with a bright pink icing, sprinkled them with iridescent edible glitter and topped it with an edible (gum paste) rosebud.
  8. 8
    Very very cute!
  9. 9
    In the cookbook they show them topped with rosebuds and little sugared daisies and fresh berries and they even made a spiderweb with black and white icing.
  10. 10
    Use your imagination, the flat tops give lots of room to be creative!

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