Recipe Butterfly Cakes

[Morning Glory]

Another recipe in my quest for easy cakes - nearly as easy as muffins. And they look pretty. This recipe makes about 10 cup-cake sized cakes.

Ingredients:
For the cake mix
3 medium eggs
Their weight in butter (approx 175 g)
Their weight in caster sugar
Their weight in self raising flour
Grated zest of a lemon

For the buttercream
80g butter
160g icing sugar
Zest of half an orange (or orange flavouring)

Method

• Heat the oven to 180C.
• Beat the sugar into the softened butter.
• Gradually add beaten eggs.
• Add flour and lemon zest.
• Spoon the mixture into the paper cases.
• Bake for 20 minutes until the tops have risen and are golden brown. Allow to cool.
• Beat together the butter, icing sugar and orange zest to make the buttercream.
• Cut the tops off of the cakes and split the tops in two to make 'wings'.
• Pipe or spoon buttercream on top of he cake and arrange the 'wings'.
• Sprinkle with sieved icing sugar.

 

[sidevalve]

Ahh my mother used to bake these - happy days.

 

[Morning Glory]

Ahh my mother used to bake these - happy days.

They are retro. But I prefer them to the ubiquitous Cupcake (which is really, as we all know, a Fairy Cake with sickly toppings). But hey! Perhaps I'm old enough to be your Mum!

 

[sidevalve]

Probably not [well not unless you are reaching three figures anyway] but I must try to get some of these made [ok I admit it - my wife is the baker]

 

[Morning Glory]

Probably not [well not unless you are reaching three figures anyway] but I must try to get some of these made [ok I admit it - my wife is the baker]

Not three figures yet, but well into OAP territory! They are really quite easy to make. You can always buy ready made buttercream.

 

[sidevalve]

Mum passed on 20 years ago [at 85] but the buns bring back soo many memories

 

[Sandra]

Another recipe in my quest for easy cakes - nearly as easy as muffins. And they look pretty. This recipe makes about 10 cup-cake sized cakes.

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Photographed today in natural light.

Ingredients:
For the cake mix
3 medium eggs
Their weight in butter (approx 175 g)
Their weight in caster sugar
Their weight in self raising flour
Grated zest of a lemon

For the buttercream
80g butter
160g icing sugar
Zest of half an orange (or orange flavouring)

Method

• Heat the oven to 180C.
• Beat the sugar into the softened butter.
• Gradually add beaten eggs.
• Add flour and lemon zest.
• Spoon the mixture into the paper cases.
• Bake for 20 minutes until the tops have risen and are golden brown. Allow to cool.
• Beat together the butter, icing sugar and orange zest to make the buttercream.
• Cut the tops off of the cakes and split the tops in two to make 'wings'.
• Pipe or spoon buttercream on top of he cake and arrange the 'wings'.
• Sprinkle with sieved icing sugar.

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They look appetizing @morning glory! Is caster sugar unrefined sugar?

 

[Morning Glory]

They look appetizing @morning glory! Is caster sugar unrefined sugar?

It is just super-fine sugar. Finer granules, that's all.

 

[Elawin]

I usually use soft brown sugar for baking and just buy normal granulated sugar if I need any white sugar. It's a lot finer than it used to be, although still not quite as fine as caster sugar, and I grind it myself if I need icing sugar.