Chocolate Fairy Cakes

Submitted By:
SallyHazel


Background Info:
If you need a hit of cake and sugar this is easy. Great for kids to help and eat.
Easy to divide recipe if you want less No. of Servings:
24 cakes Preparation time:
30min(s) Course:
Snack Cooking time:
30min(s) Cooking Instructions:
Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and lin 2 x 12 hole fairy cake tins with paper cases.
- Whisk eggs and sugar together in bowl until light and fluffy
- Carefully fold in flour and butter and vanilla if you have it
- Pour mixture carefully into paper cases, 2/3 full
- Bake cakes for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside and cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack before removing from tin
- Make buttercream, beat butter until soft, add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth, be careful to start with
- Add remaining icing sugar, cocoa powder and 1 table spoon of milk and beat until creamy. Beat in more milk if needed to loosen slightly.
- Once cakes are cool take a small sharp knife and cut a small well out to put the icing into, or just put icing on top.
- Decorate cakes if you want, with icing sugar, chocolate buttons, coloured sprinkles etc