Chocolate Butterfly Cakes
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Ingredients
- 4 oz margarine
- 4 oz caster sugar
- 3 oz and 1oz respectivly Self-raising flour and cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 2 oz margarine
- 4 oz sieved icing sugar
- 1 oz cocoa powder
- a little icing sugar for dusting
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Description
Ordinary fairy-cakes made to look quite exotic!!
Method
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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.
Lovely, my 4 year old and 2 year old have just made these only made 10 each though guess they were eating more mix than i thought they had!
Mmmmm lovely made these with my 2 year old daughter and they went down a treat!