Baking Fairy Cakes

Fairy cakes

Baking fairy cakes with your children is an exciting experience for them. Not only do they spend quality time with you they also learn how to put together ingredient to make a yummy treat.

Here is a simple guide how to make fairy cakes and how you can involve your children.

Resources Needed

During this stage encourage the children to hunt the kitchen with you to find all the items. You can make a little check list for them to tick off once they have found them.

  • A bun tin
  • Paper cake cases
  • Table spoon
  • Mixing bowl
  • weighing scales
  • Wooden Spoon
  • Sieve
Cake Ingredient Needed

Allow the children to help with weighing the ingredients this will keep them engaged and feel they are important in the process.

  • 100g  (4oz) butter (soft)
  • 100g  (4oz) Caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
  • 100g (4oz) self-raising flour
Buttercream Icing (optional)
  • 75g Butter
  • 75g Icing sugar
  • 1 table spoon of milk
  • Food colouring (optional)
Method

Children to take part in most of these steps. Remember to encourage this throughout these steps.

  1. Preheat the oven 190c/375f/gas mark 5
  2. Place the paper cases into the bun tin.
  3. Place the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl.
  4. Using a wooden spoon mix them together until its pale and fluffy.
  5. Beat in the eggs one at a time. (have the children break the egg into a cup so you can remove any pieces of the shell before they tip it into the mixture)
  6. Add the vanilla extracts
  7. Slowly add the flour and mix it in as you go along.
  8. Support children in placing equal amounts of mixture into the paper cases.
  9. Place them in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until they are well risen and golden brown.
  10. Leave them to cool on a wire rack.
Making The Wings

  1. Once the cake has cooled cut out the top of the cake, these will be the wings. I like to cut down into the cake to add more buttercream.
  2. Mix the butter until soft.
  3. Sift half of the icing sugar into the butter then mix until mixture is smooth
  4. Sift the rest of the icing sugar into the bowl and add the milk.
  5. Beat the mixture until it is smooth and creamy.
  6. Add food colouring (optional)
  7. Add a little more milk if the mixture is to thick or add more icing sugar if its to runny.
  8. Place a little buttercream icing on the top of each cake and push in two halved slices into the icing at an angle to make the wings.