Help urgent!!!!Recipe for fairy cakes

[emkana]

Hi,
I want to make fairy cakes with dd1 who has chicken pox and is miserable. I had just found a recipe on here, but then I went to another page, and when I went back the title of the thread was still there, but not the messages!
Can anybody help me?
Thank you in advance!!!

am in middle of making macaroni cheese so no time to find recipe but just put fairy cake recipe into google

4oz SR flour
4oz butter
4oz sugar (caster is best)
2 eggs

Mix all together and put into cases (generously). Cook for 25 minutes at 190c

From this thread, a post by WWW

Nigella's fairy cakes:
125g self raising flour
125g castor sugar
125g butter
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
whizz all the ingredients together and then when it's smooth add 2 tbsps milk and whizz again. Put into fairy cake cases/tin and bake for 15 mins ish. This really is time saving I reckon.

Nigella: preheat oven to 200 degrees
125g unsalted butter
125g caster sugar
2 large eggs
125g self-raising flour
half teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 tablesp milk
Put all except milk in food processor, whiz til smooth, pulse while adding milk down funnel until soft dropping consistency.
Put into 12 cake cases, bake for 15-20 minutes. And voila, as dd says.

If you don't have a food processor you can just cream the butter and stuff like making sponge cake. Hope your dd gets better soon!

Oh bum, that took too long, evidently

I don't like fariy cakes - they're SO dull!

Dull? DULL?? Stick loads of icing and chocolate on them...

I made 6 dozen Nigella fairy cakes for my daughter's cake decorating lesson the other day. I let the kids do what they wanted on them. I showed them how to feather-ice them and they did that in all garish colours and on some they stuck on run-outs they made the week before. They had a ball. Now we have too many so they have one or two after lunch and dinner

Your basic fairy cake is, you have to admit, dull. They need tarting up to make it interesting. Now, a bourbon type biscuit casing hiding a blob of marzipan... THAT's not dull at all. I felt really sick after those, I can tell you.

Thank you everyone for your help.
Dd enjoyed herself very much this afternoon, and it took her mind of the nasty itchy chicken pox, poor thing.
Dh asked where I got the recipe from - he should really know by now that Mumsnet is the source of all information!

Ooh, saw the title of this thread, thought ah she needs Nigella, wonder if I'm too late to help though? And hey, everyone had already got there, simultaneously, no less! Ks, you are truly becoming a rural domestic goddess...

No - she's becoming a pod person.......

my fairy cakes come out of the oven with an almost hard craust on them - underneath are fine. Any ideas where I go wrong - too hot an oven ? , not mixed enough???

that should have been crust. Must remember to preview my messages

If you only have one egg or two medium or whatever, the easiest fairy cake/sponge cake recipe in the world is:
Weigh your egg(s)
add an equal weight each of sugar, butter, self-raising flour, plus vanilla essence (optional) and beat together with hand beater or in processor.
Put in cake cases and bake.
I think they are best as butterfly cakes with jam and buttercream icing. YUM!

Crust might be too much sugar?