Strawberry Fairy Cakes

Ingredients list for Strawberry Fairy Cakes

• a few Strawberries fresh
• 1¼ cups Refined flour (maida)
• 1¼ teaspoons Baking powder
• 100 grams Butter
• ½ cup Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 3 Eggs
• 3 drops Strawberry essence
• 50 grams Butter
• 1 cup Powdered sugar
• a few drops Edible colours pink (optional)
• Strawberry jam
• Silver balls

Method

1. Preheat oven to 190C.
2. Break the eggs into a bowl, add strawberry essence and beat with an electric hand blender till fluffy.
3. Take butter and castor sugar in a large mixing bowl and beat with the same hand blender till the mixture is fluffy.
4. Sift flour and baking powder together over the butter-sugar mixture. Add the egg mixture and mix using cut and fold method. Add a little milk and mix well.
5. Put the batter into a piping bag, Snip of the pointed edge and pipe the batter into the muffin moulds.
6. Keep them on a baking tray. Place the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 25 minutes.
7. When they have cooled a little, remove from the moulds and place them on a cooling tray and let them cool for atleast ½ hour
8. Slice strawberries thinly for garnishing.
9. To make the frosting take butter in another mixing bowl, add powdered sugar (break lumps if any) and beat with a electric hand blender. Add strawberry jam and a few drops of pink colour and continue to blend.
10. When soft and well mixed, spoon into a piping bag with a star nozzle.
11. Pipe strawberry icing on top of each cup cake making any design that you choose to.
12. Further garnish them with strawberry slices or chop the strawberries and sprinkle them over the icing. Sprinkle silver balls on top.
13. Serve.