Any ideas what I can bake?

mathsus

Be warned! the page in my notebook is so stained I am having to guess at some of this!

Sift 3 1/2oz plain flour and 1/2 oz custard powder into a bowl. Add 1oz caster sugar and 3oz soft marge. Beat very well until soft & creamy. Use to pipe rounds, fingers, whirls & stars onto a greased baking tray. Bake at Gas 4 for about 15 mins. Transfer to a rack to cool as these will stick.

Variations: lemon: add 1tsp finely grated lemon rind
orange: add 1tsp finely grated orange rind & a drop of orange colouring
chocolate: Substitute 1/2 oz cocoa for 1/2 oz flour

decorate with icing or melted chocolate or sandwich with icing if you want.

You can also cook 5 or 6 of these on parchment on the turntable in the microwave. They took 1 1/2 mins in mine

I'm sure you can just splodge rather than piping.

MadDogWoman_2

You have the bit for a shortbread recipe I use for DD and I when we're baking.

It's out of Cooking for Toddlers.

5oz Plain Flour
1oz Cornflour
2oz sugar
4oz butter/margarine

Put all the ingredients in food processor or a mini-food processor, until starts to come together, tip out knead together, roll out to 5mm and cut out with shaped cutters or just normal round ones. Sprinkle with sugar and bake at 200C for about 10 minutes or golden brown. Cool. Delicious with hot cup of tea.

MDW

amanda40

You could make the marbled easter cake ( without the mini eggs) that was in this months somerfield mag - delish I am going to make another for a birthday cake as so easy to make and turned out great ( If I say so myself!!)

Here is the link to it

http://www.somerfield.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/recipesearch/recipe.asp?recipe=Marbled+Chocolate+Easter+Cake

carlamagee

MadDogWoman wrote: »

You have the bit for a shortbread recipe I use for DD and I when we're baking.

It's out of Cooking for Toddlers.

5oz Plain Flour
1oz Cornflour
2oz sugar
4oz butter/margarine

Put all the ingredients in food processor or a mini-food processor, until starts to come together, tip out knead together, roll out to 5mm and cut out with shaped cutters or just normal round ones. Sprinkle with sugar and bake at 200C for about 10 minutes or golden brown. Cool. Delicious with hot cup of tea.

MDW

im always lurking about this thread to see if there is ever anything easy enough for me to bake/cook and then i spotted your post. i thought, its for cooking with toddlers, how hard could it be!!??
so went ahead just there and tried to make it, but with the measurements it was really sticky!! i couldnt knead it, or cut it, so i added more flour and sugar.....do u think that this will make them horrible!?? :S
theyre cooking at the minute....only time will tell im sure!!!
fingers crossed for me. if this hasnt worked, im just gonna give up altogether!!! lol