Irish Lemon Fairy Cakes Recipes

IRISH LEMON FAIRY CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease and flour 24 muffin cups.
• Beat egg yolks till thick. Gradually add 1/3 cup sugar, beating continually.
• Stir in lemon peel and juice.
• Beat egg whites till soft peaks form then gradually add remaining 1/3 cup sugar and beat till stiff peaks form.
• Gently fold yolks into whites.
• Sift together flour and salt and fold into egg mixture.
• Fill muffin cups half full. Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes.
• Remove cakes from tins and cool completely on a wire rack.
• Using a sharp narrow bladed knife, cut into the top center of each cake, removing cone shape and set aside.
• Fill each cavity with about 1 teaspoon of lemon curd.
• Replace the "cones" into the filling on each cake and dust with confectioner's sugar.
• Yield: 24 cakes.

LEMON FAIRY CAKES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 170°c Fan. Line two trays (12 holes each) with fairy paper cups. Set aside. In a stand mixer, beat sugar & margarine or butter until light & fluffy. Scrape down the sides a few times.
• Break one egg at a time into a little bowl, add the egg to the sugar mix, beating well after each addition.
• Fold in the flour that has been sifted with bicarbonate of soda, mix in the lemon juice & lemon zest. Then fold in the soured cream a tablespoon at a time, gently mix until smooth. U might not need all the sour cream. Mixture should slowly drop off the back of the spoon.
• I use a small ice cream scoop to fill the cake cases, do not overfill, should be about 2/3s full.
• Tap tray gently on counter a couple of times- this helps to expel excess air & helps to level the cakes.
• Bake on the oven- shelf just above centre.
• Bake one tray at a time, unless your oven is big enough to take two trays side by side.
• Bake for 18-20mins, check after 18mins using the skewer test. When baked, cool in tin 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack & cool completely.
• Ice to your preference.
• Will keep for 2-3days I an airtight container.

LEMON TOP FAIRY CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 195°C.
• Mix all the cake ingredients in a food processor (with or without chocolate chips) and place 3 heaped tsp in each cake case. Bake in the centre of the oven for 15-20 minutes and leave on a wiring rack to cool for a good 30 minutes (if you can resist 'em!). Only ice when cold.
• For the icing, mix together the 3 ingredients with a fork. If the consistency is too runny, add more icing sugar. Check how lemony the icing is before adding just a tad of food colouring if you prefer them to have that lemon touch! The icing should be almost like a paste, in order for it to stiffen on each fairy cake.