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  • makeup
    makeup Posts: 1,633 Forumite
    Do you have a microwave?

    You can do sponges and things in micro - obv not as good as oven but still ok and edible!
    I've got my own flat :j:j

    Now I have to pay the bills :eek:

    And feed my interiors addiction ;)
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,743 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Coconut ice? or do you have a microwave?
    Mortgage OP 2026 £860/2000
    Mortgage balance: £31,763

    Make £50 a month Jan £20, Feb £0, March £31, Apr £20, May £20
    Boiler fund £2085/3000

  • moo2moo
    moo2moo Posts: 4,694 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Have a microwave but am clueless about cake making in it. Didn't even know you could.
    Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.50
  • Double_Trouble
    Double_Trouble Posts: 4,375 Forumite
    edited 10 January 2010 at 9:43PM
    mars bar cake - slice mars bars into saucepan use the same oz amount of butter as you have used mars ie 3 mars 3oz butter melt gently stirring all the time add same oz amount of rice krispies press in tin top with melted choc set in fridge - better than cereal cakes but very moreish on the eat front - sorry

    DTxx
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,743 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    moo2moo wrote: »
    Have a microwave but am clueless about cake making in it. Didn't even know you could.

    I think you need to eat them quite soon after but takes hardly any time at all...apparently! get thee searching on OS under microwave sponges or similar...
    Mortgage OP 2026 £860/2000
    Mortgage balance: £31,763

    Make £50 a month Jan £20, Feb £0, March £31, Apr £20, May £20
    Boiler fund £2085/3000

  • Intergalactic_Floozie
    Intergalactic_Floozie Posts: 1,600 Forumite
    Or fridge cake. Digestives, maltesers, golden syrup etc..
    Start Date: 27/11/2010
    Padding: Day 42
    Target £8000
    Amount: £562.23
  • Tesco_points_addict
    Tesco_points_addict Posts: 3,242 Forumite
    Hi moo

    Serial lurker occassional poster here! Hubby has had an invite in the post today for 'consumer pulse'. Is it worth him joining up?

    TPAx
    MFW - We've only gone and blooming done it!
    May 2013:j
  • Intergalactic_Floozie
    Intergalactic_Floozie Posts: 1,600 Forumite
    OH MY GOD WHERE IS SHE?

    I wonder if her typing fingers have frozen solid?
    Start Date: 27/11/2010
    Padding: Day 42
    Target £8000
    Amount: £562.23
  • honeybear_2
    honeybear_2 Posts: 3,914 Forumite
    I think we lost her to a vat of Mars Bar cake :rotfl:

    Hope you're ok, Moo :)
    @ LBM = £15,872.65, now £10,819.82
    AF Jan = 7/? Feb = 5/14 Mar = 14/20 Apr = 6/14 May = 2/14 June 2/14 July 0/TF Aug 1/TFv Sept 6/TF Oct 4/7
    "NEVER DOUBT YOUR OWN QUALITY"
  • Double_Trouble
    Double_Trouble Posts: 4,375 Forumite
    Hope we didn't poison you!

    DTxx
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