Valentine’s Day Fairy Cake


This is a simple but effective Valentine’s Day themed fairy cake. It is worth buying some nice paper cases to bake your cakes in, I used some red and white polka dot cakes.

  • I started off by baking a batch of my plain fairy cakes.
  • Once cooled I decorated them with some buttercream (recipe below)
  • Add the jelly heart sweets and a sprinkle of edible glitter. Of course you could use other sweets such as Love Hearts or fizzy jelly hearts.


Buttercream Recipe


5 oz butter
10 oz icing sugar
drop of milk
edible glitter (optional)
food colouring (optional)

  • Whisk the butter until soft. 
  • Add half of the icing sugar and carefully on a low speed and whisk. Add the remaining icing sugar and whisk until smooth.
  • Add the optional food colouring and combine.
  • If you feel the buttercream is too thick had a teaspoon or two of milk.

Tip – if you want a different flavour buttercream you could add a little lemon or lime juice.