Butterfly Cakes

Name: Butterfly Cakes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 125g butter, softened; 1/2 cup caster sugar; 2 eggs; 1 cup self-raising flour; 1/4 cup milk; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 cup thickened cream, whipped; strawberry jam for filling; icing sugar to dust

Miniature vanilla sponge cakes, with the tops sliced off and pressed back in at an angle to look like butterfly wings.

Total time

35 min

Prep

20 min

Cook

15 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Australian

vegetarian

Ingredients

125gbutter, softened

1/2 cupcaster sugar

2eggs

1 cupself-raising flour

1/4 cupmilk

1 tspvanilla extract

1 cupthickened cream, whipped

strawberry jamfor filling

icing sugarto dust

Instructions

Beat butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, then fold in flour, milk and vanilla.

Spoon into 12 paper cases. Bake at 180°C for 12-15 minutes.

Cool. Cut a circle from each top. Halve each cut circle.

Fill cavity with a dot of jam and a spoon of whipped cream.

Place 2 halves back at an angle as wings. Dust with icing sugar.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

683

Protein

8.1g

Fat

49.8g

Carbs

52.1g

Fiber

0.9g

Sodium

250mg

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