objective C: Buttons created from subclass of UIButton class not working

I am creating a subclass of UIButton in order to create my own customized buttons. My code as follows:

//interface file (subclass of uIButton
@interface UICustomButton : UIButton 
{
    Answer *answer;
    NSString *btnType;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) Answer *answer;
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSString *btnType;

- (id)initWithAnswer:(Answer *)ans andButtonType:(NSString *)type andFrame:(CGRect)frame; 
- (void)buttonPressed;

@end


//Implementation file (.m)
@implementation UICustomButton
@synthesize answer,btnType;

- (id)initWithAnswer:(Answer *)ans andButtonType:(NSString *)type andFrame:(CGRect)frame; 
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) 
    {
        self = [[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, frame.size.width, frame.size.height)];
        self.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithHexString:@"#E2E4E7"];

    }

    [self addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonPressed) forControlEvents:UIControlStateNormal];

    self.answer = ans;
    self.btnType = type;

    return self;
}

I am facing some issues in getting the above code to work. I have 2 problems

1) The buttons are not responding to the selector method "buttonPressed"

2) I am hitting a runtime error for the lines 'self.answer = ans' and 'self.btnType = type' Stack trace as follows:

-[UIButton setAnswer:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x614ebc0
2011-06-23 00:55:27.038 onethingaday[97355:207] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UIButton setAnswer:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x614ebc0'

What am I doing wrong here?