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Gorgeous Little Butterfly Cakes or Fairy Cakes! Recipe

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Ingredients
16
Count
Nutrition
149
Calories
Total time
45
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 190° C or 375°F.
  2. Have ready between 12 -18 paper cases depending on size. Small pie or cake tins will take standard paper cases. These cakes SHOULD be small and dainty and NOT standard muffin size. (However, you can make them bigger and adjust the cooking time by 5 minutes.).
  3. Cream butter or margarine with sugar until light, fluffy and pale in colour. By hand is best but a hand whisk is fine too!
  4. Beat the eggs and add them bit by bit with spoons of sifted flour. Bit by bit ensures the mixture does not curdle.
  5. Gently fold in an any flour left over when the egg is used up.
  6. Add the vanilla or any other flavourings desired - lemon and orange is good too! If the mixture is a little too stiff add a little milk or juice of orange/lemon.
  7. Half fill the paper cases with the mixture and bake for about 15 minutes until risen and firm but NOT too dark.
  8. Cool cakes and then cut a slice from the top of each cake and cut this in half.
  9. Place a little butter icing of your choice on the top of each cake and arrange the wings around the icing - round edge facing the outside and the cut edge to the inside and angled towards the bottom - like BUTTERFLY or FAIRY wings! Dust with extra icing sugar and watch them fly away!
  10. If you want to add colouring to the vanilla cakes, pink is really good with pink icing too! I once sprinkled on crystallised rose petals for a Christening Party & I also used rose essence in the butter icing, very sophisticated!
  11. N.B. You can multiply this recipe very easily, e.g: 6 ozs of butter, flour & sugar to 3 eggs; 8 ozs of butter, flour and sugar to 4 eggs & so on! It also makes VERY good big Victoria Sponge cakes - just slice and fill with a filling of your choice - lemon curd, butter icing, fresh whipped cream & jam - the list is endless!
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 149.07 Kcal (624 kJ)
Calories from fat 83.53 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9.28g 14%
Cholesterol 24.91mg 8%
Sodium 34.02mg 1%
Potassium 2.87mg 0%
Total Carbs 16.45g 5%
Sugars 7.6g 30%
Dietary Fiber 0.15g 1%
Protein 0.3g 1%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 4%
Calcium 5.9mg 1%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 553.72 Kcal (2318 kJ)
Calories from fat 310.27 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 34.47g 14%
Cholesterol 92.51mg 8%
Sodium 126.37mg 1%
Potassium 10.67mg 0%
Total Carbs 61.12g 5%
Sugars 28.24g 30%
Dietary Fiber 0.57g 1%
Protein 1.1g 1%
Vitamin A 0.4mg 4%
Calcium 22mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 3.7
    Points
  • 4
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

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