Easy cheap cake recipe required!

laura2481

Hi, thought this might be the place to ask...
Looking for a cake receipe. Nice and inexpensive ingredients. Nice and tasty, lasts awhile (doesn't go dry over night!) and here's the tricky bit:
IDIOT PROOF. Becuase i'm an idiot in the kitchen... :rotfl:

mum2one

I've got a recipie for boiled fruit cake its a dodle, will look for it and pop it on 2mor, also got cherry and almond loaf (thats out of dds easy cook book for age 6+), so hopefully foolproof!!

powershopper

here's an easy starter....

1cup flour (SR) cup-any size, as long as you just use the same cup, obviously a big cup makes a bigger cake...
1 cup sugar
1 cup marg - soft is better, but NOT low fat spread
1 cup eggs - in a teacup about 2 eggs-make up the volume with milk if you need to
some flavouring of your choice
pou into a lined/greased cake tin
bake gas reg 5 for about 20-30 mins

powershopper

sorry Laura, missed the vital bit

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mix together in a bowl until smooth, try not to beat the mix

laura2481

powershopper wrote: »

here's an easy starter....

1cup flour (SR) cup-any size, as long as you just use the same cup, obviously a big cup makes a bigger cake...
1 cup sugar
1 cup marg - soft is better, but NOT low fat spread
1 cup eggs - in a teacup about 2 eggs-make up the volume with milk if you need to
some flavouring of your choice
pou into a lined/greased cake tin
bake gas reg 5 for about 20-30 mins

I think I have most of that in the cupboard/fridge except flavoring :j
Can you use butter instead of marg?

What flavorings would be good? Vanilla is all i can think of... not very imaginative!

laura2481

mum2one wrote: »

I've got a recipie for boiled fruit cake its a dodle, will look for it and pop it on 2mor, also got cherry and almond loaf (thats out of dds easy cook book for age 6+), so hopefully foolproof!!

Yay, cakes for kids! I should be able to handle that!

powershopper

You can use butter, as long as it is SOFT, (thats why I use soft marg)

powershopper

Vanilla is good

POSSETTE

you could substitute half cup of flour for drinking choc powder,or make a small amount of camp coffee up with hot water to make a coffee cake..you can get lemon flavouring too...use soft butter and icing sugar to make butter cream to put in the middle..cant recall measurments but just keep adding icing sugar until it tastes sweet and creamy.!

skintc

The basic recipe above is a great starter - here are some suggestions for "flavouring":

Chocolate chips
Raisins/sultanas etc
Replace some of the flour with cocoa powder (I reckon a tablespoon? Anyone feel free to correct me!)
Food colouring (doesn't add flavour, but you could make some funky looking cakes!)

ginvzt

Something I tried the other night and I was worried it will be complicated - amaretti biscuits. But it was very easy!!!!!

4 egg whites (no yolk)
340g ground almonds
340g caster sugar
30ml amaretto (may be possible to omit or change for another flavour? Haven't tried)

Whisk the egg whites until they are soft peaks and the air bubbles are all the same size(one trick - if the egg whites don't move or barely move when you tip the bowl, they are ready. They say the egg whites should stay in bowl if you turn it upside down to know that they are well whisked, but I am not that brave!). Promise, that is the trickiest bit - but if you have a hand mixer, that will be easy.

Slowly add almonds and sugar and mix carefully (well, I did...). Add amaretto and mix into smooth paste (sort of).

Lay the trays with baking paper or kitchen foil and grease it. Put 1 teaspoon heaps of mixture on the trays, about 2cm apart, as they expand, and bake for about 12 min at 190C oven, until they are golden.

They are really delicious!!!!!