Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale.
Fairy cakes made with splenda.
They also are traditionally made with a lighter sponge cake as opposed to the thicker butter cakes used in cupcakes.
Preheat the oven to 180c 350f gas 4 and line 2 x 12 hole fairy cake tins with paper cases.
4oz organic wholemeal self raising flour.
8 tablespoons of splenda which is the equivalent to 4oz.
Method cream the margarine and splenda together until light and fluffy.
Conversely fairy cakes use a lighter glace icing.
Splenda is suitable for people with such a condition as it contains only a fraction of the calories and carbohydrates of sugar.
Alternatively a fairy cake is a type of cupcake with its top cut off and replaced in two pieces like wings.
Beat in the eggs a little at a time and stir.
2 medium eggs organic from my own chickens makes 6 muffin sized fairy cakes i use a muffin tray and muffin paper cases.