Name: Easy fairy cakes
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100g caster sugar; 100g very soft butter; 100g self-raising flour; 2 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 200g very soft butter; 200g icing sugar; food colouring sprinkles, marshmallows etc

Ingredients

100g caster sugar

100g very soft butter

100g self-raising flour

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

200g very soft butter

200g icing sugar

food colouring sprinkles, marshmallows etc

Instructions

1 Ask a grown-up helper to turn the oven on to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put a paper case in hole of a 12-hole bun tin.

2 Put the sugar and butter (it must be soft or you won’t be able to mix it properly) in a bowl and mix it together. Sift in the flour.

3 Break the eggs into a separate bowl (spoon out any bits of shell that fall in) and add them to the bowl with the vanilla. Mix everything together.

4 Divide between the cases using a spoon, scraping it off with a knife. Ask a grown-up helper to put the tray in the oven for 20 minutes.

5 Mix the butter and icing sugar to make a creamy icing. Add colouring, if you like. Push an icing nozzle into an icing bag, then scoop in the icing.

6 Let the cakes cool completely in the tray. Pipe icing onto each cake and decorate with marshmallows or sprinkles, or whatever you like.