Orange fairy cakes with fairy butter

Name: Orange fairy cakes with fairy butter
Yield: Makes 18
Ingredients: icing sugar; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup self-raising flour, sifted; fairy butter; 2 large eggs, beaten with; 2 tablespoons orange flower water; grated zest of 1 mandarin or orange; grated zest of 1 mandarin or orange; 115 g/4 oz / ½ cup caster sugar; 115 g/4 oz/1 stick unsalted butter, melted

Preparation info

Makes
18

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Floral Baker

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

About

Fairy cakes are a version of the cup cake and these used to be made for tea parties when I was a child. So-called because the top of the cake would be neatly hollowed out in a round, this would be cut in half, the hollow filled with butter cream and the two pieces of sponge neatly perched on top to represent wings.

Ingredients

2 large eggs, beaten with
2 tablespoons orange flower water
115 g/

Dessert
Vegetarian
Cake
Baking

Method

Fairy cakes can be smaller and more delicate than cup cakes, so the same amount as the cup cake recipe will make about 18 fairy cakes. Rose, violet and lavender can be used to vary the recipe, with the appropriate flower water or culinary essence.

Place eighteen paper cases on a baking sheet or in eighteen 6