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Although we make Banana and Blueberry Fairy Cakes often, we can only make them when we have bananas going past their best. In between, we like to make simple blueberry cakes as a delicious treat whenever we feel like it.

What do you need for these little blueberry cupcakes?

For these blueberry fairy cakes you just need typical cake ingredients plus fresh blueberries although you could try using frozen blueberries instead. We also have these cakes straight from the oven without decorating them but you could dust them with icing sugar to make them a little bit more fancy. You could also top them with a simple cream cheese frosting too but we just love them plain.

A lot of people like lemon blueberry cakes and if you wanted to have a lemon flavour simply switch the vanille extract for lemon juice or a little lemon zest.

This easy blueberry cake recipe is so great for busy family life. They can be enjoyed for breakfast, as an afternoon tea treat or as part of a buffet spread if you’re looking for party ideas where food is concerned. They are a really simple bake for whenever you feel like it and the kids love them.

If you’re looking for other simple bakes to make, here’s our Oaty Fruity Banana Muffins, Chocolate Chip Fairy Cakes and Madeira Cake recipes. You can see all our recipes to date here.

What equipment do you need to make these mini blueberry cakes?

You will no doubt have most of the equipment you need for this mini cakes recipe at home already but, in case it helps, here are the things we use to bake these cakes at home:

These are pretty much staples for baking in any home kitchen and once you have them you won’t need to replace them often.

Here’s our Blueberry Fairy Cakes Recipe:

Baking ingredients

eggs
unsalted butter at room temperature
caster sugar
self raising flour
1tsp vanilla extract
blueberries

Recipe

Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
Line a muffin tin with paper cake cases
Break the eggs into a mixing bowl and weigh them
Add the same weight of butter, caster sugar and self raising flour and mix well
Add the same weight of blueberries to the cake mix
Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract – I use 1tsp of vanilla for every 3 eggs
Beat well and spoon the cake batter into the paper cases
Bake for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned and leave to cool on a wire rack

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