Fairy cakes recipes

Fairy cakes or cupcakes - here's our simple but delicious recipe for making these pretty little sponge cakes. Fairy cakes are perfect for any treat including birthday parties. For some great fairy cakes recipes and ideas on how to decorate your cake take a look through our inspiring fairy cake decorating and topping photos for ideas.

This recipe makes 12 fairy cakes or 9 cupcakes.
Ingredients (serves 8+)

    100g butter, softened
    100g self raising flour
    100g caster sugar
    2 eggs

You will need:

Muffin tray with muffin cases
Method
Handy tip

If you would like to make your own icing!

    Preheat oven gas mark 4/180'C/170'C fan
    Whisk all the ingredients until creamy and spoon into a bun tin or bun cases - this recipe should make 12
    Cook for about 10-15 minutes - to check they are cooked just press gently and they should spring back
    Once cooled, the cakes can be decorated with all different types of icing including glace icing or delicious buttercream icing

Why not try...

    Replacing some of the flour with cocoa to make chocolate cakes

    Add choc chips to make choc chip cakes

    Add raisins to make raisin cakes

    Add lemon zest to make lemon cakes and so on

    Once your fairy cakes have cooled and been iced you can decorate them with anything you like - sprinkles, sweets and cherries!