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An easy fairy cake recipe

A fairy cake recipe that produces a quick, easy and pretty-as-a-picture version of this childhood favourite. This can easily be made dairy- and gluten-free
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Baking recipes are a wonderful activity for long days – all that mixing and folding can be really rather meditative, and a big bake started mid-morning can easily take you all the way through to a late lunch. Cakes, buns, biscuits, brownies and the like also tend to make good recipes for children when you need some entertainment, as an afternoon messing around in the kitchen naturally culminates in the promised treat of a cake! 

Feel free to mess around with the latter part of this extremely simple fairy cake recipe as you wish, adding natural food colouring to the icing or subbing out the strawberries for raspberries or blueberries. And who knows – perhaps sprinkles get involved somehow? We’ve also got an easy recipe for chocolate fairy cakes – good luck trying to resist.