Showing posts with label butterfly cakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly cakes. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Baking Attempt 2

I went out and re-stocked my ingredients, including caster sugar as I was using granulated and didn't notice, whoops! I also checked out a different recipe and method for my cakes.

  • CAKES
  • 113g butter or margarine, softened
  • 113g caster sugar
  • 113g self raising flour
  • 2 medium free range eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • BUTTER ICING
  • 56g butter, softened
  • 113g sieved icing sugar
My ingredients

My mix all cosied up in their cases

Close up
                           

Me enjoying the rest of the cake mix<3

My 12 babies all cooked up!

Nice and golden NOT brown!

This was my first taste test, and it was goooooood!

A butterfly with a sliver of jam!

My army of 10 butterflies ready to be eaten!
My outcome this time was A LOT more successful! I only put a tiny bit of vanilla essence in the cake mix, and left them in the just a little bit over 15 minutes, It might've been a bit too long as they deflated a bit, but became nice and crunchy on the top, and soft on the inside<3 Much better than batch 1, as they were too crunchy and were a tad crumbly...AH  the butter icing was such an improvement! It actually tastes nice! And I got the knack of cutting out the wings, and this time placed them on the other side. And I saw a recipe that put jam in the middle of the wings, and oh my gosh it's super yummy! 


Friday, 8 June 2012

Baking Attempt 1

Over this summer I intend to learn how to cook and bake by myself and do other house stuff. Here i am posting the results of baking Butterfly Cakes, my favourite cakes!

Recipe
For the cakes
2 medium eggs
110g / 4oz self-raising flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
110g / 4oz butter (soft)
110g / 4oz sugar

Butter Icing
170g / 6oz icing sugar
85g / 3oz butter (soft)
3 drops of vanilla extract
1 tablespoon of milk



About to put in the oven for 30 mins
 By the look my cakes came out lovely, a bit too dark, but when I tried them they tasted horrible (to me) as the shop only had almond extract and not vanilla, but I might've put a bit much in....however the boyfriend liked them as he likes marzipan (that's what it tasted like) and my mother liked them too. But stay tuned for my second attempt using a slightly different recipe so that  they wont be so brown, and so that I can get the butter icing just right!

A close up of a butterfly
My finished pretty's