Cooking Series: Edible Flower Recipes, Almond Fairy Cakes with Candied Borage Flowers
- Shidonna Raven
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July 14, 2014
UPDATED September 5, 2018
Source: Love & Olive Oil
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What is the difference between a cupcake and a fairy cake? Or a tea cake for that matter? Actually, I think tea cakes are actually cookies (huh?) so scratch that question. Fairy cakes and cupcakes are actually quite similar (and sometimes used interchangeably), but I’d describe fairy cakes as more refined, and definitely daintier. Cupcakes are most definitely an American invention, while fairy cakes are more European, with a lighter sponge cake and a sugary glaze in place of a heaping pile o’buttercream.
This is one case where the individual elements may fall flat, but together they sing; the whole really is better than the individual parts. The cakes on their own could be described as uninspired, lacking a crucial sweetness that you expect in a dessert. But when topped with a thick layer of sweet, almond-scented fondant, they come into their own, where a sweeter cake would simply be too sugary.
In this case, the fairy cakes are basically just a vehicle for something I’ve been wanting to do since last summer: candied borage flowers. Unfortunately, last year my one borage plant didn’t produce much in the way of flowers (gangly thing could barely support itself), but this summer I’ve got a whole pot full of them. A few weeks ago they started to bloom and haven’t stopped since.
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