Cake # 23 Fairy Flyaway Cupcakes

So the Meringue-Topped Coffee Liqueur Cake will have to wait until next weekend. With a particularly tough week, filled with disappointments, I wanted easy, and so I had the urge to make cupcakes instead of a traditional cake. Therefore, my twenty-third cake is called Fairy Flyaway Cupcakes. They are perhaps the simplest cake recipe I have had so far. The cake is just flour, baking powder, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and milk. The butter cream icing is powder sugar, vanilla, and of course butter.The cakes themselves only took 15 minutes to bake- and they came out perfectly golden brown on the top and fluffy in the center.

The cute thing about these cupcakes is that by cutting off a round section from the top of the cake, filling the hole with the icing, and then cutting the top in half and placing them back on the cup-cake, facing upwards, you have just created butterfly or fairy wings on the cupcake. Add some sprinkles, and my childhood fantasies of tea time and cupcakes reappear.

And that is a good thing, as I watch Evie discover her feet one day, her ears the next, and tomorrow ice-cream sandwiches, I can't help but to long for my childhood, when everything was easier. Friendships were made of snowballs and summers, where broken heart necklaces of "best" and "friend" encircled our necks, and sleep-overs consisted of painting our nails with glitter and listening to Debbie Gibson. But, as I look down at my blistered knuckled, I am reminded that growing up is as painful as burning your finger in an oven, or as Debbie changing her name to "Deborah". In time my blister will heal, and I will get burned again and again, and though some scars will never go away, they like my childhood memories will fade.

But for now, it is fun to play make-believe with cupcakes, and I can't think of a better occasion to make them for, then for "wine party" with a group of great girls, which really is our adult version of a "tea-party".

Here are my "Fairy Flyaways":

Here is the book's:

Next time FINALLY on to the Meringue-Topped Coffee Liqueur Cake- will you be joining me?