Fairy cake

Method

• step 1

  Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and prepare two 12-hole tartlet tins with fairy cake cases.

• step 2

  Whisk together the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy

• step 3

  Gradually add the flour and the butter, folding the mixture together gently.

• step 4

  Pour the mixture carefully into the fairy cake cases.

• step 5

  Bake the cakes for 10-15 minutes, until golden on top and a skewer carefully inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Allow to cool for ten minutes on a wire rack before removing from the tin.

• step 6

  To make the icing, whip together the icing sugar, butter and cocoa powder

• step 7

  Once the cakes are cool, ice them liberally

• step 8

  Decorate the cakes with chocolate buttons, sticking them on at a 90 degree angle in layers all the way around so each cake resembles a chrysanthemum flower.