Orange curd butterfly cakes

This weeks theme anything Citrus and Fairy cake

Because the house smells great with fresh baking and its always nice to lick the spoon of your creation and share a slice of cake.

Its nice to have some home baking in the house for the week, to feed hungry mouths when they come home from school, having tea and cake with fellow mummies over a play date, or 4 o'clock snacks between lunch and dinner wouldn't be the same without a cookie or two.  

What ever the reason its good to get into the kitchen especially with little ones to give them the practical skills in measuring, mixing and taste as well as satisfaction that they have created and cooked something themselves.

Every 1-2 weeks we will be sharing a cake recipe because we cant share a slice of cake with you and we encourage you to share a slice of your home baking with us and anyone else that links up to this post.  Please show some love to others that put post up,  as linkies only work if you share and i cant think of anything nicer to share that a good slice of cake. 

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To kick off this week lets share all bakes about Citrus and Fairy cake:  If you have any new bakes or want to recycle an old post go to the link up at the bottom of the post. 

Right Sophie here is an Orange and a lemon you have 30 mins and i am watching you!!

That right this week Ella was awake long enough to guest visit the kitchen and join in sniffing orange zest and watch what was going on as Sophie mixed up a flurry of butterflies. 

Start by making the curd: 

Ingredients

Zest and juice of an orange

Juice of half a lemon

40g golden caster sugar

2 large eggs

50g butter

put all the ingredients in a bowl apart from the butter and whisk then place the bowl over a saucepan and add the butter and whisk for 10 mins until the mixture thickens and leave to cool. 

Next make the cake:

Ingredients

175g self raising flour

110g soft butter

110g golden caster sugar

2 eggs

zest of an orange and half the juice

We always whisk our sugar and butter together until light and fluffy then fold in the rest of the ingredients, starting by pour small amounts of egg followed by the flour. 

Once the cake mix is made flavouring the mix with orange zest and juice, prepare the cases and place the mixture in the cases and bake for 20 mins at 190c

Once cooled cut out the wings from the fairy add a good blob of curd and place the wings then dust with icing sugar.