Six different frostings for one fairy cake!

Last night at about 10pm, my brother informed me he needed baked goods as a lure for his ultimate frisbee stall at his Sixth Form activities fair...today. We examined the baking cupboard and decided on 24 very simple, very quick fairy cakes with different flavours of mascarpone butter cream for frosting: orange, lemon, cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.

This is the laughably easy fairy cake recipe used. The base for the frosting was:

100g butter, softened

200g mascarpone or cream cheese (we happened to have mascarpone)

600g icing sugar

Then we divided it up. As you can see it is a little runny. There was no butter left after the cakes, only margarine, which doesn't really provide an ideal consistency. Also...600g is an outrageous amount of icing sugar and we didn't have enough to properly thicken up the frosting.

And added these:

Zest of one lemon; zest of one orange; tablespoon of strawberry jam; teaspoon ground cinnamon; chocolate; the seeds of one vanilla pod.

Greg came home from the fair a few hours ago with 50 new members for the Ultimate Frisbee club. And no leftover fairy cakes.

Overall, a fun little encounter with late-night, last-minute cake-baking.