These little lemon fairy cakes are the perfect afternoon treat!
My neighbour recently gave me a bag of fat, juicy lemons fresh from the farm and ever since I’ve been making Lemon Butter like it’s going out of fashion. Although I would be happy enough to eat the lemon butter straight from the jar, I’ve had to be a little inventive and tried to think outside of the box, or in this case, the jar! I contemplated making my Luscious Lemon Baked Cheesecake but I wanted a recipe that was so easy even the kids could make it.
You see, the other week we had back to back child house guests, first with our niece and the next night with our godchildren. All the kids are keen bakers so I wanted something simple but delicious they could make themselves and these little fairy cakes ticked all the boxes. Growing up in the 70’s fairy cakes were all the rage and it’s only as an adult I’ve realised that they were called fairy cakes because they were so small, I thought they were called fairy cakes because they were like all your cake dreams come true! These days cupcakes are all the rage, but not only are cupcakes bigger, they’re usually more elaborately decorated where as fairy cakes have just a drizzle of icing, if at all. As I’m not an avid or talented cake decorator, a fairy cake is much more my style!
These fairy cakes are great for kids (or time poor) adults to make because they’re so quick, simple, use a handful of pan...