Easter Fairy Cakes
In a follow-up to the Free From Pancakes collaboration last month, I am joining in with the Free From Gang again this month. This time the theme is Free from Baking with Kids for Easter. This was lovely, I actually found I let the kids do most of the work. I was left with the cleanup though, I must work on that one! Here’s our Easter Fairy Cakes which are dairy free and gluten-free if you use Gluten Free Flour.
Easter Fairy Cakes
Ingredients:
140g coconut oil, melted
110g caster sugar
100g self-raising flour (Use Free From Fairy Gluten Free Self Raising Flour if you need it to be gluten free)
25g cocoa
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
100g dairy free chocolate
For Icing:
70g margarine
1 tbsp water
Steps:
1. Preheat the oven to 190C / 375F / Gas5 (180C fan oven). Line a bun tray with paper or silicon cases.
2. Put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix until smooth. We used a hand blender for this. Children can help with all of this, my 8 year old did most of this himself, with brief breaks where I let the 5 year old do some.
3. Using two forks, put the mixture into the bun cases, filling each to about 2/3.
4. Bake for 18-20 minutes until lightly golden. You should yield 12-15 buns.
6. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt over a saucepan of boiling water. Pour into chocolate egg mould and leave to set in the fridge or freezer.
To Make Icing:
- Beat the margarine until soft. Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
- Add the rest of the icing sugar and half the water and beat the mixture until creamy and smooth.
- Add more water if necessary.*
- Swirl icing over top of buns, or if you make runny icing spoon it. Place a chocolate egg on top of each.
- Allow to set and enjoy!
*As you can see from the photos we put in too much water and it turned out more like glace icing. This worked fine anyway but I would have liked to have lovely icing swirls on the buns and place the chocolate eggs on top.
The rest of the Free From Gang have come up with some amazing Easter treats, something for everyone! I have starred the ones below that are dairy free.
*Chocolate Marshmallow Crispie Squares – Nathalie at The Intolerant Gourmand
*Berry Breakfast Easter Nests – Emma at Free From Farmhouse
*Vegan Apple, Date & Walnut Hot Cross Buns – Midge at The Peachicks Bakery
Quick Chocolate Cream Nests – Rebecca at Glutarama
Easter Rocky Road – Nova at Cherished By Me
*Hot Cross Bun Chocolate Rolls – Vicki at The Free From Fairy
Easter Cupcakes – Kirsty at Hijacked By Twins
No Bake Creme Egg Biscuit Cake – Kate at Gluten Free Alchemist
Mini Eggs White Chocolate Fudge – Grace at Eats Amazing
*Vegan Easter Fruit And Nut Chocolates – Mandy at Sneaky Veg
*Mini Simnel Cakes from Eb at Easy Peasy Foodie
More #FreeFromEaster treats coming soon from:
Mel at Le Coin De Mel
Love this recipe Laura, and you did a video too, super organised. Lewis will love giving these a go, or Beth for that matter of fact xxx
Funny you should say I’m super organised, I’m two weeks late with this post! :) Oh hope they like them!
These look totally delicious and lots of fun to make with the kids! Thanks so much for recommending my flour…so glad you like it :)
Thanks a million! They were lots of fun! :)
Arrrr love the video of your little helpers! So cute! These fairy cakes look so good x
Thanks so much! :)
Ah cute video. J loves making icing and eating it all without the cake!
Oooh yum! These look lovely!! And your video is too cute :-D Eb x
Thanks Emma! Had to get rid of excess icing or that is what would’ve happened here! :)
They look great! It’s so nice to see your little ones getting involved. Look at those concentrated little faces :)
You can’t beat getting brownie points when handing over a bowl of icing to the children and saying there you go can you! They love it, I think fairy cakes are my absolute favourite cakes and they always have to have a generous layer of icing on them too so yours will go down a treat! :)
Yeah, it’s all about the icing :-)