Honey Cupcakes

Welcome to our first Boutique Busy Bee page!! Each month we will supply you with the ammo to get creative with the kids, with fun and funky ideas !

In honour of of Boutique Busy Bees we thought this gorgeous recipe was perfect ~ weve even had a go ourselves!! (see second picture!)

Prep time:: 20 min, plus cooling
Cook time:: 20 min
Serves:: Makes 12

Tips and suggestions

Cooks Tips...: Sugar bees and edible glitter are available from baking and sugarcraft shops and online at sites including flossiecrums.com

Ingredients

For the cakes

115 g butter, softened
115 g caster sugar
115 g self-raising flour
2 eggs
1 tbsp honey

For the icing

50 g butter, melted
400 g icing sugar
3 tbsp cold water
2 tbsp vanilla essence

To decorate

4 honeycomb chocolate bars, cut into pieces
1 packets sugar bees sweets, (see Cook's Tips)
edible glitter, (see Cook's Tips)

Method

1. When you’re ready to start, ask a grown-up to turn on the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5.

2. Mix all the ingredients together really well in a bowl.

3. Put 12 cupcake paper cases into a 12-hole fairy cake tin and spoon the mixture evenly between the cases.

4. Bake for 15 minutes.

5. Ask a grown-up to take the cakes out of the oven and place them onto a wire rack to cool.

6. Wait until the cakes are cool, then whisk the ingredients for the icing together and spread onto the cakes.

7. Build up a pile of cut up honeycomb chocolate bars and decorate with sugar bees. You can use a little icing or edible glue to hold the bees in place.

8. Sprinkle with edible fairy glitter to make the cakes magical!

9. Proud of your creation? Send in your photos to

little-miss-boutique@hotmail.co.uk

There will a be prize for the best!!! xx

For funky baking and kitchen accessories see the 'Baking' section of the website!