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Fairy cakes

Impress your friends with this simple, effective cake decoration on top of my fairy cake

  • Makes14
  • 40 mins
  • 200°C/fan 180°C/gas mark 6

Emily's option

For a chocolate buttercream you can change the vanilla extract in the buttercream for some cooca powder

Ingredients

  • Cupcake
  • 175g margarine or butter
  • 175g caster sugar
  • 3 medium eggs
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 175g gluten-free self-raising flour
  • 5 tbsp milk
  • Buttercream icing
  • 70g butter
  • 140g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1-2 tbsp
  • Flower decoration
  • mini marshmallows
  • sugar glitter

Method

1 Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas mark 6 and line your tins with paper cases.

2 Cream the butter or margarine with your caster sugar (by electric whisk) until light, fluffy and pale in colour. Add the vanilla extract into the mix.

3 Beat in the eggs one at a time (then it won’t curdle the mix). Add the gluten-free flour and milk and give a final mix with the electric whisk.

4 Spoon the mixture into the cake cases. Bake them in the oven for 15 minutes or until they’re golden and light to touch. Leave the cakes to cool on a wire rack.

5 Now make let's make the buttercream. This is made by beating the butter until soft and then gradually sifting in the icing sugar, beating continuously. Add a few drops of vanilla extract along with the milk and give a final beat. On the top of the cakes spread a layer of butter cream.

6 To make the flower decorations: cut the mini marshmallows in half with a diagonal cut. Dip the cut sides of the marshmallows into the glitter sugar. Then arrange into a flower shape starting at the centre of the cake and working outwards. You could have as many petals as you wish – just a few in the centre or cover the whole of the top of the cake.