If you can, use honey produced by local bee keepers who only keep a few bees. Honey has been used as an ingredient in foods, medicines and cosmetics throughout history because of its nutritional and healing qualities - so you can really enjoy making and tucking into these little cakes.
Ingredients per pair of children
6 tablespoons (100g) of self raising flour
Tip of a teaspoon of baking powder
2 pinches of salt
100g of butter
4 tablespoons (50g) of golden castor sugar
2 tablespoons (50g) of honey
2 eggs
For the honey butter icing
6 tablespoons (60g) of icing sugar
30grms of butter
2 teaspoons of honey
01Preheat oven to 180°C/250°F.
02Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
03Put the butter, sugar and honey in another bowl and mix until smooth and creamy (this will make your arm ache!) and then beat in the egg.
04A spoon at a time, spoon the flour into the ‘eggy’, buttery sugar and mix gently.
05Put dollops into a well greased (or non stick) cup cake or muffin tin – these
cakes will rise so don’t overfill) and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
06While the cakes are cooling on a wire rack, make the butter icing.
07Beat all the ingredients together until creamy. Use to ice the cupcakes when they are cool.
