Spotty Dotty Fairy Cakes

Easy-peasy and extremely scrumptious fairy cakes decorated with vanilla buttercream, smarties and chocolate buttons.

Ingredients:

6oz self-raising flour 

6oz softened butter

6oz caster sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

For the topping:

Vanilla buttercream = 75g butter + 175g icing sugar + 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Sweets of your choice to decorate

Makes 12 fairy cakes

Prep Time: 20 mins

Baking Time: 10-12 mins

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12 hole fairy cake tin with paper cases.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in your eggs, one at a time, and stir in the vanilla extract.
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3. Fold in your flour till the mixture is well combined, but don't over mix. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are roughly half full.
4. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Leave to cool.
5. To make your Buttercream, beat the butter until smooth and creamy, then gradually beat in your icing sugar. Beat in a few drops of vanilla extract and food colouring if you're using it too.
6. Spread this on top of your cakes and add decorations of your choice.