Chocolate Fairy Cakes

This is my little boys favourite cake…

Ingredients for cupcakes

dairy free butter (I find Vitalite the best)
caster sugar
vanilla essence
eggs (you choose the quantity)
gluten free self- raising flour (I find Doves Farm the best, because you do not need to add xantham gum)
cocoa powder (ensure no milk in powder)

Weigh your eggs.
Weigh the rest of your ingredients to match the weight of the eggs except the vanilla essence flour and cocoa. For the flour use 3 quarters of the weight of the eggs and for the cocoa use 1 quarter of the weight of the eggs.
Cream the butter and sugar together. Then add a dash of vanilla essence.
Add one egg with a large spoonful of flour / cocoa sieved (with the dairy free butter it seems really easy for the mix to curdle, which is why I add 1 spoonful of flour). Continue until all eggs are incorporated and then add in the rest of the flour/ cocoa through a sieve.
Split between cake cases. I use 1 large teaspoonful in each case and this rises to just below the rim of the cake case.
Then out it in the oven on 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
Take out of the oven, put on a cooling rack and allow to cool.

dairy free butter
icing sugar
Cocoa powder
sugar strands or decorations (however make sure your sugar strands do not contain gluten, milk or soya).

I do not weigh out these ingredients because with the dairy free butter most conventional recipes do not work and the mixture is too runny.

Choose an amount of butter and put it in a bowl. Then add some cocoa and icing sugar and combine it. Keep going with adding the icing sugar and the cocoa powder (with the cocoa powder, I look at the colour of the icing to judge this).
Keep going the butter icing needs to be thicker than what you are used to for the mixture not to split, when it is holding its shape in the bowl and is fairly thick, it is ready. Unfortunately I found this a bit trial and error, but better it be too thick than not set.
Use a piping bag (| know this is bad for the environment, but I find the disposable plasticky ones the best, because the butter seems to come out the side of the cloth ones leaving the icing sugar inside).
Sprinkle on the decorations.
Eat and enjoy!