Cherry Bakewell Fairy Cakes
Cherry Bakewell Fairy Cakes have all the flavour of traditional cherry bakewell tarts but in a delicious cake form. Perfect for a tea party of buffet spread.
Servings: 8 cakes
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 200 g margarine or unsalted butter at room temperature
- 200 g caster sugar
- 200 g self raising flour
- 1 tsp almond extract
- jam
- 150 g icing sugar
- glace cherries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
- Line a muffin tin with paper cake cases
- Break the eggs into a mixing bowl with the butter, caster sugar and self raising flour and mix well
- Add the almond extract and beat
- Add a spoon of mixture to each of the pastry cases before topping with a teaspoon of jam
- Add another spoon of cake batter in each case to cover the jam
- Bake for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned and leave to cool on a wire rack
- When completely cooled, mix the icing sugar with a little water until you’ve made lovely thick icing
- Add a spoonful to each cake and top with half a glace cherry
- Leave to set and then enjoy!