Easy cheap cake recipe required!

dronid

I like this one http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-cards/t--1922/banana-bread.asp as my partner can't have much in the way of saturated fat.

It uses vegetable oil which I tend to have around. I normally put in sultanas rather than nuts. It lasts for a week for the two of us - though my OH does have some substantial slices. It bakes in an hour in a 2lb loaf tin and if there's any left over when(if it got a chance to!) go stale it can be microwaved and served with custard. It's very moist too.

Best of all it's a basic mix it up recipe. And I've used frozen, thawed bananas in it. Delicious!

billieboy_2

Just found this recipe for a tea loaf which I'm going to try tonight though I'll probably use bu8tter instead of marg. Gets better with keeping apparently:

1 cup of sugar
1 cup of mixed, dried fruit
1 cup of cold tea
1 teaspoon of mixed spice
1oz of margarine
2 cups of self-raising flour
1 egg

1 Put all the ingredients in a pan, bring to boil and then let it stand to cool down.
2 Add the flour and egg and beat the mixture together.
3 Pour into a loaf tin and bake at 180 for 90 minutes or until knife inserted is clear.

laura2481

Wow, so many cakes! I will have to limit myslef to one a week or else I will get fat(ter)! :rotfl:

I like the sound of banana bread...

Does anyone know how hard it is to make carrot cake?

jomo70

Hi ...this is a very easy and delicious carrot cake recipe...it never lasts long in this house

1 cup s/r flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp all spice
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups grated carrots

Sift all dry ingredients
Add oil and stir well (Stiff mix)
Add eggs on at a time..mix well
Add carrots and mix

Bake 350/180 50-60 mins

Icing
1/8 cup Marg
1 cup Icing sugar
2oz cream cheese
1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Mix all together ....

and hey presto and very moist and tasty cake...I cant go wrong:p Honest!

Buzzbox

My partner has discovered coffee cake and was wondering if anyone has a simple, yet delicious recipe for coffee cake I can try?

POSSETTE

see my post above..use the normal mix of flour eggs marge sugar but make a mix of milk and camp coffee liquid and mix that in with it..i love coffee cake

Buzzbox

POSSETTE wrote: »

see my post above..use the normal mix of flour eggs marge sugar but make a mix of milk and camp coffee liquid and mix that in with it..i love coffee cake

Forgive my ignorance but what is camp coffee liquid? :A

Esor

There is also this thread

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1300407

which contains a ginger biscuit cake that I can heartily recomend after making it today and eating some, my OH was impressed to. Really cheap if you can get the value biscuits (which I couldn't but will next time!).

mum2one

Buzzbox wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance but what is camp coffee liquid? :A

Camp coffee liquid, is a liquid coffee, rather than granules, but you can get the same efffect by dissolving coffee granules in some water, about 2 tablespoons water to 2 teaspoons coffee. Add that to cake mixture.

Can make a cake siminlar to Victoria sponge mix

4 oz flour
4 oz sugar
4oz butter or marg
2 eggs
coffee mix

whisk butter and sugar together
add eggs gradually with a bit of flour
finish off flour
add coffee mix
mix well

Either go in sandwich tins, gas 4 20 to 30 mins
and can sandwich with buttercream, or

put in one tin, gas 4, 4o to 45 mins

POSSETTE

as said..Camp is a brand name of a coffee in liquid form, it has a more chicory taste too and its gorgeous made with milk.its in very traditional tall slim bottle,very ols fashioned product but makes great cakes