Fairy Cakes

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 7 tablespoons sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup self-rising cake flour
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 -3 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 -4 drops lemon juice
• food coloring

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees f.
• 2 line a 12 cup muffin tin with baking cups.
• 3 put all the ingredients except for the milk into a food processor and blend until smooth. pulse while adding the milk down the funnel to make for a soft consistency.
• 4 it doesn't seem like enough, but you can get enough into each baking cup, just scrape it all out and try to fill each one equally.
• 5 bake for 15-20 minutes or until they are golden on top.
• 6 cool on a wire rack, but remove from the tin as soon as possible.
• 7 before you decorate, slice off any mounded tops so you have a flat surface to decorate. icing: mix the sugar, egg and lemon juice in a small bowl until smooth and creamy, it should have the consistency of heavy cream i always break the batch into smaller batches so i can have different colors when my girlfriend made these for my shower, she frosted them with a bright pink icing, sprinkled them with iridescent edible glitter and topped it with an edible (gum paste) rosebud.
• 8 very very cute!
• 9 in the cookbook they show them topped with rosebuds and little sugared daisies and fresh berries and they even made a spiderweb with black and icing.
• 10 use your imagination, the flat tops give lots of room to be creative!