Recipe

Vanilla patty cakes with glacé icing

Oct 31, 2010 1:00pm
  • 40 mins cooking
  • Makes 24 Item
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Ingredients

Vanilla patty cakes with glacé icing
  • 125 gram butter, softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2/3 cup (150g) caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1又1/2杯(225g) self-raising flour
  • 1/4 cup (60ml) milk
Glacé icing
  • 1又1/2杯(240g) icing sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon butter
  • 2 tablespoon milk, approximately

Method

Vanilla patty cakes with glacé icing
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Line two deep 12-hole patty pans with paper cases.
  • 2
    Beat butter, extract, sugar, eggs, flour and milk in medium bowl with electric mixer on low speed until ingredients are combined. Increase speed to medium; beat about 3 minutes or until mixture is smooth and paler in colour. Drop slightly rounded tablespoons of mixture into paper cases.
  • 3
    Bake about 20 minutes. Turn patty cakes, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
  • 4
    To make glacé icing; sift icing sugar into small heatproof bowl; stir in butter and enough milk to give a firm paste. Stir icing over small saucepan of simmering water until spreadable. Top patty cakes with icing.

Notes

You can make glacé icing without butter (or oil) but, a tiny amount of butter will add gloss to the icing and make it easy to cut neatly without butter, glacé icing tends to shatter when you cut it.

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