Fairy Cakes in 7 Simple Steps

A few days ago I came across a fairy cake recipe in a magazine that claimed the cakes only had 98 calories in them. So yesterday I tried out the recipe and tweaked a few of the steps so it then suited me and my methods of baking.

Recipe:

Makes 12

110g caster sugar

2 eggs, whisked

110g self-raising flour

1 tbsp vanilla extract

For the icing:

3 tbsp 'lighter' butter 

2 tbsp icing sugar

1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 5 (190℃) and line a fairy-cake tin with 12 paper cases.

2. Beat the caster sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla extract together and then divide the batter equally into the paper cases.

3. Bake for 18-20 minutes until they spring back up when touched.

4. Remove the cakes from the tin and leave to cool.

5. Mix together the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Add more icing sugar if nessaccary.

6. Pipe onto the cakes when cooled and decorate them how you want to.

7. Enjoy!  

When I baked these cakes, they had less colour than a normal fairy cake would. The cakes include no fat hence why there was less colour (and why the calorie count is so low). Also the texture was different; they were less spongy but the top was slightly more crunchy and they tasted more sugary - they were delicious (even if I do say so myself!).

If you are looking for new things to try out or are trying to cut down on fattening foods; I recommend this recipe. Although you can tell by taste, colour and texture that they include no butter or source of fat, I really liked these fairy cakes and I think this recipe is a fantastic alternative as they are still really sweet and really tasty.

As you can see from my decoration the calorie count probably went up a lot on these cakes from what the magazine stated! The original recipe said to use 3tbsp of cream cheese for the icing, so if you want to keep the calorie count low then I would suggest using that as opposed to butter or glacé icing. 

Instead of using chocolate and sprinkles to decorate like I did (yum!), perhaps try topping the cakes with fresh fruit. 

I hope this post inspired you to try out some new recipes of your own; if you want any more details about what I did please don't hesitate to leave a comment below or on my Instagram page which is linked above. 

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Rachel x