Fairy Cake Recipe

11^th February 2011

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Thank you for helping to bake cakes for the cake sale:


The ingredients enclosed should make about x24 cup cakes or two 7" sponge cakes.
Ingredients
300g/12oz Self Raising Flour
300g/12oz Soft Margarine
300g/12oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs
4 tbsp milk
How to make Fairy Cakes:
Preheat the oven to 190C/35F/Gas mark 5.

• Place the paper cases in the holes of your cake tins
• In a mixing bowl beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. You can use an electric whisk or a wooden spoon.
• Beat the eggs together and add then to the butter/sugar mixture, a little at a time.
• You can add lemon juice, vanilla essence, cocoa powder, etc etc etc at this point if you want to:
• Sift in half of the flour and fold into the mixture.
• Add the milk and the rest of the flour and fold until well combined.
• Spoon into the tin and bake for 12 minutes or until risen and golden on top.
• Allow to cool for ten minutes on a rack before removing from the tin.
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Decorate in your own way, could be butter icing, coloured icing, sprinkles,,,, anything you like.