Fairy cakes

Sponge fairy cakes (and some with chocolate chips!) (in the US they are known as cupcakes)

Ingredients:
6 oz margarine (stork)
7 oz caster sugar
6 oz self raising flour
4 eggs
chocolate chips - optional
Icing - optional (Betty Crocker chocolate buttercream)

You will need:
weighing scales
sieve
wooden spoon
table spoon
teaspoon
whisk
2 mixing bowls
fairy cake cases
fairy cake tray
oven + oven gloves

In a large bowl, weigh out 6 oz of margarine

Melt the margarine in the microwave for 30 seconds (this will make it easier to mix all the ingredients)

 

Weigh out 7 oz of caster sugar

Mix in the sugar a metal spoon can be used.

Weigh out 6 oz of self raising flour

Sift a small amount of the flour in to the melted butter and sugar mixture.

mix well a wooden spoon is better

 then add in the rest of the flour and continue to mix until the consistency is creamy.

Get 4 eggs (these are large free range class A)

separate the egg whites from the yolk

Add the yolk to the mixture

Whisk the egg whites

it should end up foamy.

but not to firm, add the egg whites to the mixture.

Fold the egg whites (a wooden spoon is good here)

keep folding until the egg whites have disappeared

the mixture should be thick but a little bit runny

add in chocolate chips to the mix (optional)


in a fairy cake tray, place in the fairy cake cases (they hold their shape better in a tray)

Using a Table spoon take a spoon full of the mixture and place in the cases (using the teaspoon to scrape off the mixture from the table spoon) the cases should be half full.

 

 

 

Set the oven to gas mark 2 ( 300 Fahrenheit = 150 Celsius / Centigrade = 2 Gas Mark = Very Slow)

Place in the centre of the oven for 35 minutes, but check on them after 25 minutes.


They should be a light tan colour (they may come out a bit paler but they will have more flavour)

You can check if it is cooked by inserting a knite in the middle, there should not be any mixture on the blade,

 

or you can unwrap it ! It should be fluffy and bounce back (not sticky)

you can decorate with icing, I used Dr. Oetker ready made icing chocolate flavour

This mixture will make about 30 fairy cakes (4 are missing from below!!)