Butterfly Cakes

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups self raising flour
• 2/3 cup caster sugar
• 125 g butter, softened
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1/2 cup jam or 1/2 cup lemon butter, approximately
• 300 ml thickened cream

Recipe

• 1 line a 2 x 12 hole deep patty pans with paper cases.
• 2 sift dry ingredients into a small bowl of electric mixer.
• 3 add butter, eggs, milk and essence.
• 4 beat on medium speed about 3 minutes or until mixture is smooth and slightly lighter in colour.
• 5 drop 1 1/2 tbsp of mixture into prepared paper cases.
• 6 bake in a moderate oven about 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
• 7 cool in pans.
• 8 using a fine pointed knife, cut circles from tops of cakes about 1 cm from the edge and about 1 1/2cm down into patty cakes.
• 9 cut these in half as they will be your butterfly wings, and put aside.
• 10 place about 1/2 tsp of jam or lemon butter into cavities of cakes.
• 11 top with whipped cream.
• 12 place tops into butterfly wings position.
• 13 dust with icing sugar.