REALLY quick cakes

brokenwings

I have a full day of chores and errands to do tomorrow and now find i need to bake either small cakes ( ie in paper cases ) or a large cake/sponge - but i have NO time

i have a full cupboard of baking items ( and the reason i have to do this is that the weetabix brownies i thought would last a few days lasted ---- 12 hours!!! LOL)

any suggestions for fast cakey stuff please??

twink

queen cakes

100g soft marg
100g sugar
100g s r flour
2 eggs
1 level tsp baking powder 400oc gas 6
mix all, beat two mins, put in paper cases bake about 15 mins

can add 25g currants to mix

traffic lights

175g milk choc
75g broken biscs rough crush
196g tin condensed milk
red, yellow, green glace cherries

melt choc, stir in biscs and milk, put into greased 7 inch tin and smooth flat
leave in fridge till set cut into eight bars and dec with cherries in pattern of lights, you could leave out cherries

comping_cat

The recipe i use for basic cakes is
4oz s/r flour
4oz caster sugar
4oz marg
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder.
Just combine ingredients, and either spoon into individual cake cases, or share between 2 7inch tins.
Cook 180C for about 15 - 20 mins.

Another easy one, although ive seen similar by Delia and Nigella, although they mix their ingredients up seperatly and take more time, but i just bung everything in together, mix and cook, and they always turn out perfectly are chocolate pots,
100g dark chocolate (ive also used white chocolate)
100g butter
55g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
30g plain flour
tsp vanilla extract.

Melt butter and chocolate in microwave. Add all other ingredients and mix. Pour into ramikins and cook for 12 minutes at 200C. if made before ready to use, keep chilled in the fridge and cook for about 14 minutes, again at 200C.

If you eat them immediatly, they will be cake on the outside, runny on the inside, if you leave them 5 - 10 minutes, they will be 'fudgy' on the inside!!!! lovely with clotted cream!!!!

brokenwings

i can feel myself gaining pounds already

thanks both

i think i just managed to find a 45 min area of free time in my day tomorrow

if you see me on here please shoo me off !

twink

sponge traybake

175g soft marg
225g s r flour
11/2 level tsps baking powder
175g sugar
3 eggs
3 tbsps milk

180oc gas 4

grease and line a roasting tin or 12x9 inch tin
mix all beat two mins, put in tin smooth top, bake 35-40 mins until cake begins to shrink from sides of tin
cool in the tin, ice as required, cuts into 21 pieces

choc cake, blend 3 level tbsps cocoa with 3 tbsps hot water and cool, add to mix , milk prob not nec but if mix is too stiff add 1tbsp milk

pol

Probably a bit late now, but......

Quick Chocolate Pudding - it takes 10 minutes from getting the bowls out to eating it!

1/4 cup cocoa
2/3 cup hot water
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup SR flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup sunflower oil
1 egg, beaten
2 tsp vanilla essence

Mix cocoa and water till smooth. Put all dry ingredients in a bowl, add all the wet ones and beat together. Pour into a bowl lined with clingfilm and microwave for 5 minutes. Leave to cool a little in the bowl and that's it!

pol

lynzpower

Flapjacks are pretty quick to make,

Melt butter
add golden syrup, then melt the sugar in
then stir in oats, sesame seeds, chocolate chips, glace cherries, or whatever youve got ( have a look in earwigs thread the recipes in there)

then i did mine in yorkshire pudding trays
bang in the oven for 25 mins ( enough time to stardrops the kitchen floor and finish washing up & make yourslef a nice cup of tea. eat one warm with your brew and admire your work. they keep really well too if they last that long lol

snoozer

Mocha squares - delicious

5oz porridge oats
8oz sr flour
2oz cocoa
8oz granulated sugar
8oz marg

Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl, melt marg and mix in thoroughly press into a 12 X 8 or similar baking tray put in oven heated to 160 c for 15 minutes. Will be soft when taken out but harden as it cools.

Top with icing made with 8oz icing sugar, 2oz of melted marg and tbsp of camp coffee or v. strong instant coffee mix. Should be spreadable texture, not pouring.

Tastes even better the following day.

brokenwings

thanks all

i made queen cakes and a chocolate tray bake this morning and they have already been judged a success

so thanks v much to you all
x

twink

glad you liked the choc traybake, brokenwings, this is the icing for it

melt 75g marg in a pan, add 50g sieved cocoa, cook on gentle heat for 1 min
remove from heat stir in 225g sieved icing sugar and 2 tbsps milk
beat well till icing has thickened, spread over cake and leave to set

fruit traybake
as sponge traybake above, mix in 175-225g currants then sprinkle 1 level tbsp demerara sugar over cake halfway through cooking time

lemon cake

add the rind of 11/2 lemons to mix and bake
when cake comes out of oven, mix the juice of 11/2 lemons with 175g
sugar and spoon over hot cake
depending on the amount of juice in lemons mix might be runny or if like a sugary paste spread over cake with back of a spoon