Butterflies, Ladybird And Dragonfly Cupcakes/fairycakes

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 225 g self-raising flour
• 175 g caster sugar
• 175 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons milk
• 250 g butter, softened
• 500 g icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon hot water
• 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
• food coloring, 3 colours (i used red, yellow and blue liquid)
• 1 (40 g) package writing icing
• 1 (40 g) package black writing icing
• 1 (40 g) package any colour writing icing (butterfly wings)
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 20 chocolate sticks (i used matchmakers)
• 1/2 cup chocolate-covered raisins
• 1/4 cup hundreds and thousands

Recipe

• 1 for the cupcakes:.
• 2 preheat oven to 150 deg celcius.
• 3 sieve flour then add the rest of the ingredients.
• 4 bind the mixture on slow speed, then faster for 1 minute(until it looks creamy).
• 5 spoon into cupcake papers in fairycake sized trays.
• 6 bake for about 15 minutes.
• 7 for the icing:.
• 8 mix the ingredients - except the colouring - in a bowl on low speed, then increase speed until light and fluffy.
• 9 divide mix approximately into 3 bowls.
• 10 add a few drops of colouring to each bowl, one bowl for each colour, and mix each bowl of icing well with a spoon.
• 11 for the butterflies:.
• 12 ice each fairycake with the yellow icing.
• 13 break a chocolate stick into the right length for it's body and place.
• 14 pipe the outline of the wings.
• 15 fill wings with hundreds and thousands.
• 16 add a chocolate-covered raisin for each head.
• 17 pipe on eyes with black pupils.
• 18 for the ladybirds:.
• 19 ice each fairycake with the red icing.
• 20 place a chocolate-covered raisin for each head.
• 21 pipe on eyes with black pupils.
• 22 pipe wing shape with black icing.
• 23 place chocolate chips for the spots.
• 24 for the dragonflies:.
• 25 ice each cake with the blue icing.
• 26 place a long piece of chocolate stick for the body.
• 27 place a chocolate-covered raisin for the head.
• 28 pipe on eyes with black pupils.
• 29 pipe on wings.