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Butterfly Buns

Ingredients

• Caster sugar
• Butter
• Eggs
• Self-Raising Flour

Method

• Wash hand/ dry well with paper towel. Apron on
• Set oven to 170 or gas mark 5
• Utensil used weighing scale, spoons and bun tins.
• Weigh 4oz sugar and 6oz butter/margarine
• 2 eggs crack into a bowl and slight whisk
•  Cream together butter and sugar
•  Weigh out 4oz Self raising flour
•  Adds eggs to creamed sugar and butter
• Adds flour to mixture, beat together well.
• Place 12 cupcake cases in large hole tins
•  Get 2 spoons and share mixture between bun cases.
• Place buns in the oven for 20 minutes.
•  Whilst waiting for them to cook place a cooling tray on the table.
• Whilst buns are cooling prepare butter icing
•  Mix together 4oz butter and 8oz icing sugar
•  Once buns has cooled – cut top off and cut into 2. Place in a spoonful of butter icing and place the 2 pieces back on to form the butterfly bun.
•  Place on a tray or plate and shake icing on them.