People the world over have found breast cakes entertaining (not to mention titillating) for a long time. I seem to remember that there’s a story of Marie Antoinette outraging her tea party guests with them (“let them eat boobie cakes!”), and there’s even a festival in Sicily where they eat little breast-shaped cupcakes called ‘Saint Agatha’ cakes.f

Anyway, I digress. Here’s my recipe for them. The whole boobie-amusement aside, these are great little cakes which you can whip up in a few minutes (plus cooking time) and flavour them with all sorts of things: Chocolate (just add a tablespoon of cocoa powder), vanilla (a few drops of vanilla essence), coconut (a tablespoon of desiccated coconut), raisins (2 tablespoons of raisins) etc.

Ingredients

  • 4oz sugar
  • 4oz butter
  • 8oz self-raising flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1 pinch of salt

Cream the sugar and soft butter together, then mix in the egg, flour and salt. Divide between paper cupcake cases (approx 1 teaspoon per case) and bake in the oven for 180 degrees C for 12 minutes. This mixture will make between 18 and 24 cakes, depending on how full you fill your cases.

When cool, ice with pink icing and top with a cherry on top! Then chuckle to yourself while you scoff the lot!

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