Making Butterfly Buns | lifewithluce

Hello, hello, hello! I hope you are all very well. It's definately been a heck of a long time since I've been on lifewithluce. However, I've never actually forgotten about my lil' blog :-) It's quite hard when I still have people coming up to me in school asking when my next post will be up, I like that people enjoy reading it that much. So, if you remember a while back, whether you've been with me from the start of lifewithluce or you just happened to stumble across this post of mine, I have done a post like this once before, it was called Making Cookies and I think it was uploaded some time last year? Anyway, what I'm going to be posting today is, you've probably guessed it from the title already but I'll be making butterfly buns today. I absolutely love butterfly buns, infact I love any kind of sweet treats, so this was a must to post today :-) 

This recipe is courtesy of the Be-Ro Home Recipes and I've stuck by this cooking book since I can remember so I didn't have any major worries on the outcome of these today. 

Ingredients-

100g (4oz) margarine 

100g (4oz) caster sugar

2 medium eggs

100g (4oz) self-raising flour

1) You need to pre-heat your oven to 180C, 340F, Gas Mark 4 then either grease your baking tray or add pretty little bun cases in your bun tin.

 2) Then you will need to weigh out 100g of soft margarine and put it into a large mixing bowl.

3) Then, you will need to weigh out 100g of caster sugar and place it in the same large bowl.

 4) Then, mix them both together making it a light creamy colour.

5) After, you will need to weigh out 100g of of self-raising flour, not forgetting to sieve the flour into the bowl.

 6) You will need 2 medium eggs.

 7) You will then need to crack both eggs into a glass and whisk them vigorously using a fork, making sure there is no shell  has fallen in.
                                           
8)  Sieve the flour into the bowl, in small amounts with the egg poured in between.
                                           
9) Pour in the egg

                                         

10) Mix together until creamy.

11) Add an equal amount of mixture into the bun cases and put into the pre-heated oven, using an oven glove.

12) Bake for 20 minutes.

 13) Make sure they're a deep golden brown colour and are not sizzling when you take them out of the oven or they're not fully cooked and need to go back in.

14) Take them out of the tin and place them on a cooling rack.

 15) Whilst they're cooling, weigh out 50g of soft margarine for the butter icing.

 16) Place the margarine into a bowl.

                                     
17) Then weigh out 100g of of icing sugar flour.

  18) Then sieve the icing sugar in the bowl.  
                                     
19) After, use the back of the spoon to combine the margarine and icing sugar.
                                  
20) Until you get a thick consistency.
                             
 21) Then using a knife, cut out a circle at the top of the bun and cut the top into halves.
                                    
 22) Next, fill the bun with icing sugar so it's slightly domed at the top.
                                    
 23) Then, add the halves on top as shown below to create the butterfly wings effect.

 24) To decorate, sprinkle any thing you fancy on top, I used chocolate balls.

 25) Once you have completed all the buns leave them to cool. Once they have cooled, they are best enjoyed with a cup of the finest Yorkshire tea or a splendid cup of rich coffee. ;)

Thankyou for reading or scanning through this post, I hope it's given you inspiration to make some of your own cute little butterfly buns! <3