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Basic butterfly cakes

  • Time to make: 1 hr, including cooling
  • Serving: 10 people (makes 10)
Ratings: 4.5
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 100g reduced-fat spread
  • 100g (about ½ cup) castor sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • few drops vanilla essence
  • 100g (about ¾ cup) self-raising flour
  • Icing
  • 75g reduced-fat spread or reduced-fat cream cheese
  • 175g (about 1 ¼ cup) icing sugar, sifted
  • few drops vanilla essence
  • 1 tablespoon skim milk
  • about 2 teaspoons icing sugar, sifted
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Heat oven to 180°C. Place paper cases in 10 muffin tin holes.

    2 With an electric mixer or a wooden or plastic flat spoon, cream spread and sugar together until light and fluffy.

    3 Add eggs to the mixture, one at a time. Mix well after each addition.

    4 Sift flour. Add to cake mixture with vanilla essence. Use a large spoon to gently fold in flour. Use a figure of eight movement to do this. Do not overmix.

    5 Half fill each paper case with cake mixture. Bake in oven for about 15-20 minutes, or until well-risen and golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Prepare icing.

    6 With a sharp knife, cut a round from the top of each cake. Cut this top in half. Pipe or spoon a little icing in each cake centre.

    7 Arrange wings on top of icing. Dust with icing sugar.

    Icing

    1 Place reduced-fat spread in a bowl and beat until light and fluffy.

    2 Gradually stir in icing sugar, vanilla essence and milk. Beat well until light and smooth. Use to ice cakes.

    Variations

    Icing

    • The reduced-fat spread can be replaced with a reduced-fat cream cheese and used in the same way.
    • Replace vanilla essence with a little orange, lime or lemon zest for a citrus flavour.
    • Replace vanilla essence with 2 teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon boiling water. Cool before adding to icing.
    • Replace vanilla essence with 1 tablespoon cocoa mixed with 2 tablespoons boiling water. Cool before adding to icing.

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