Blueberry & Banana Fairy cakes with a buttery frosting

Makes 12 fairy cakes

100g butter

100g sugar

1 egg

150g brown rice flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

¼ teaspoon ground cardamom

100ml whole milk

1 ½ bananas

50g blueberries

25ml maple syrup

50g butter

150g icing sugar

40ml single cream

3 drops banana flavouring

a dash pink food colouring

sugar paste

a few coloured sugar pearls

Preheat the oven to 170^oC.

Whisk the butter and sugar until smooth and airy. Add the egg and whisk some more until the egg is completely mixed in with the butter and sugar. Mix the baking powder and cardamom in with the flour, and add this to the mixture. Stir well, and add the milk. Mash the bananas and add. Finally add the blueberries and maple syrup and mix well. You’ll now have a fairly runny dough, which you can scoop into muffin forms.

Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer come out clean when doing the skewer test. Leave the cakes to rest on a cooling rack until cold.

To make the frosting, whisk the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Then add the cream, flavouring and colour and stir well. The more you whisk the mixture the fluffier and lighter the frosting will be.

Use a piping bag to apply the frosting to the fairy cakes.

Make the sugar paste into flowers or other shapes, and decorate with these and the sugar pearls.