Pimp up my baking sweet n savoury

Outdoorlass

I'm in a rut with my baking, I tend to only bake fairy cakes or scones after a few disasters with banana loaves:rolleyes:

There are four of us and the home baked stuff, would be used for snax and lunchboxes for the kids and OH. Looking for a mixture of sweeet n savoury stuff.

I have SR four
Sugar
Stork
icing sugar
vanilla essence
strawb jam
apples
bananas
sultanas
sprinkles
eggs
frozen puff pastry
cheese
potatoes
onions
carrotts
Mustard

Think thats it for now until I go shopping on Monday.

All ideas and recipes, methods, welcome x

mummysaver

Have a look at the beginning of the grocery challenge thread, there are absolutely loads of lovely recipes on there!

Ideas that spring to mind from your list are:

apple and sultana/banana muffins
jam tarts
cheese and onion pasties made with the puff pastry
puff pastry whirls - roll out, spread marmite and grated cheese on top, roll up into a sausage (like a swiss roll) and slice in 2cm pieces, pop on baking tray and bake for 10-15mins
frittata (fry small cubes or slices of pots and onions in frying pan, pour over some whisked eggs, season and cook till set then flash under the grill to cook the top) serve in slices as a snack (my kids quite like spanish omlette in their lunch boxes - need to make in a small frying pan so quite deep, else slices will fall apart!)

Before you go shopping on Monday have a look at the thread for twinks hobnobs, they are ALWAYS worth making!

Kiwisaver_2

Cheese and onion pasties for me please and/or apple turnovers.

Cheese scones

or

Jammy muffins - half fill muffin papers or tins with plain muffin mix, put a dob of jam on top (Half teaspoon) and cover the jam over with more muffin mix and bake as usual. Yum!

Patchwork_Quilt

Definitely cheese scones. Quiche?

Outdoorlass

Kiwisaver wrote: »

Jammy muffins - half fill muffin papers or tins with plain muffin mix, put a dob of jam on top (Half teaspoon) and cover the jam over with more muffin mix and bake as usual. Yum!

Thank you, have just made a batch of them, in the oven as we speak! I have never ever made muffins before, had a quick search on here for a recipe and found one and added the jam as you said:D

Had lots of mixture left, so added a bananna and had some choc raisons left that neede to use up, so dumped them in too, will let you know what they are like.

Kiwisaver_2

Cool, hope they turn out yummy. If you like them, I also do similar with lemon curd and like to play about with different flavour muffins and filling - chocolate muffin with cherry jam is good.

Outdoorlass

Kiwisaver wrote: »

Cool, hope they turn out yummy. If you like them, I also do similar with lemon curd and like to play about with different flavour muffins and filling - chocolate muffin with cherry jam is good.

Ok they were a hit! But, dunno what I did wrong, the jam seemed to sink to the bottom? I use silicone muffin tray, I didn't use paper cases, the kids ate theirs hot and said they would be nice witch custard:D

Any ideas why the jam sank and do you think next time I sjust mix the jam in?

BTW the banana and chocolate raison muffins are gorgeous, veryvery yummy!

debtmuncher

try this recipe for jam doughnut style muffins

not sure why your jam sunk down.

in a baking mood myself. going to make scones at some point today.

Outdoorlass

Thank you, they look ace!

blottedcopybook

What kind of things do you like? I have loads and loads of recipes I could give you but a great start is the BBC Good Food site (http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/). For savoury, can I highly recommend a sort of tortilla/frittata hybrid? You can put pretty much anything into it (it's ace for using up wee odds and sods of frozen veg) and if you put sliced boiled potatoes into it, it'll be a fairly hearty lunch which is just as nice cold as it is hot.

debtmuncher wrote: »

try this recipe for jam doughnut style muffins

not sure why your jam sunk down.

in a baking mood myself. going to make scones at some point today.

Thank you for linking to me!

Jam will sink if the batter is too light/liquid to support it, ideally you want a muffin-mix consistency at the least or the jam will just fall through the mix.