Chocolate Butterfly Cakes Recipe at MyDish

Chocolate Butterfly Cakes

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Method

  • Cream margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Beat in eggs one at a time. If mixture begins to curdle add a little of the flour.
  • Gently fold in rest of flour.
  • Half fill paper bun cases with the mixture.
  • Bake in oven for about 20 mins. at 190ºC/370ºF/gas mark 5.
  • Make butter icing as follows:
  • cream margarine and icing sugar together add cocoa powder, mix well.
  • When the fairy-cakes are cold dust with a little icing suger. With a sharp pointed knife cut a round out of the top of each fairy cake, fill with butter icing. Cut the slice of cake you've cut off in two and arrange as "wings" on the icing. (see photo)
  • Done.

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    • Mmmmm lovely made these with my 2 year old daughter and they went down a treat!

      by peetie on Sat Mar 20 2010   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    • FOR FAIRY CAKES
    • 4 oz margarine
    • 4 oz caster sugar
    • 3 oz and 1oz respectivly Self-raising flour and cocoa powder
    • 2 eggs
    • FOR CHOCOLATE BUTTER ICING
    • 2 oz margarine
    • 4 oz sieved icing sugar
    • 1 oz cocoa powder
    •  a little icing sugar for dusting

    By Views 11012  Added Wed Feb 11 2009


    Ordinary fairy-cakes made to look quite exotic!!

     

    This is another of mum's recipes. She always made them for my birthday as a special treat. I must have been about 10 when I realised they where ordinary buns with the tops cut off!! Hope you enjoy this recipe. Read More

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