How to make moist and fluffy Fairy Cakes : Cake Recipe

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil provides a dairy-free option while margarine is often less expensive.

icing sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: granulated sugar

Honey offers natural sweetness, while granulated sugar can be blended to make icing.

Heat the oven to 160°C.

Line a cupcake tin with muffin liners.

In a mixing bowl, combine together the cake flour, baking powder and salt.

Sift the dry ingredients together twice and set aside.

In another mixing bowl, beat the unsalted butter until smooth.

Beat in sugar little by little until all the sugar is gone.

Continue beating the ingredients for 6 minutes on medium speed.

Beat in eggs one at a time and beat each egg for 30 seconds at high speed.

Beat in 1/2 of the flour, milk, yogurt, 1/2 of the remaining flour mixture and the ground almonds at low speed. Do not over mix.

Divide the batter into the muffin liners.

Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes on 160°C.

Let the cakes cool completely.

For the lemon icing, mix together the icing sugar, zest of lemon and juice of lemon.

Drop a teaspoon of icing on each fairy cake.

Decorate the fairy cakes with colourful sprinkles and enjoy.

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