School cake stall - your chance to make me look good!

msb5262

This recipe is dead quick and easy, cheap and makes a really delicious cake. You can also cook the same mixture in a flat tin as a traybake (ice and cut into squares).

You can use any size of cup from a teacup to a mug, but use the same size to measure the flour and the milk!

Chocolate Manitou

Grease and line an 8” tin.
Preheat oven to 180º C.

Heat gently together in a saucepan:
3oz butter or margarine
1 cup milk
1 ½ oz cocoa powder
(or replace cocoa with 3oz plain chocolate & reduce the sugar you're about to add to 2oz)

Stir until melted. Remove from heat and allow to cool a little.
Add 3oz granulated sugar, 1 beaten egg and ½ teaspoon vanilla extract.

Sift together
1 ½ cups self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder.

Stir the hot chocolate mixture into this and whisk until smooth.
Pour into prepared tin and bake for about 25 minutes.

Hope you like it - I love it!

MsB

Counting_Pennies_2

I made some crispy cakes and some jam tarts. Went so quickly we didn't get a chance to buy any ourselves.

I also have a banana muffin recipe that is very quick and easy

Banana muffins
Mash 4 medium sized bananas.

Mix or blend together 4 oz soft marg, 4 oz light brown caster sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 6 oz SR flour, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda and a pinch of salt.

Add the bananas and mix well.

Pour into muffin cases bake at 160 for 30 mins

jexygirl

Msb and counting, both fab recipes I am going to try tomorrow! All written down thank you!
Jex

susieb

Its sports day tomorrow and I have to cook something for the PTA to sell.
Help can you tell me something thats easy and cheap to make that I wont be ashamed of.

McKneff

Rock buns

8 oz flour
4 oz sugar
4 oz marg
1 egg
3 handfuls of mixed fruit

Mix it all together, put a little milk in if its too dry

pile on to baking trays as rocks.
190 degrees till they look cooked.
Rock buns are ridicullously easy.

susieb

super, will cook them now

Pink.

Hi susieb,

These always go down well:

Fifteens

15 digestive biscuits (crushed)
15 glace cherries (chopped)
15 marshmallows (chopped)
half a tin of condensed milk (approx 200-250g)
dessicated coconut

Mix the biscuits, cherries and marshmallow in a bowl with the condensed milk. Roll into a long sausage shape on greaseproof paper sprinkled with the coconut. Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours and then slice.


There's an earlier thread with lots more ideas that may help:

School cake stall - your chance to make me look good!

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

BitterAndTwisted

I'm not much of a baker because I don't have a very light touch but even I can make Weetabix Brownies that turn out edible, look very appealing and they're very, very moreish:

4 crumbled Weetabix
4 oz sugar
4 oz SR flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
100 gr chopped chocolate (Somerfield have their "Simply Value" ones at 30 pence a bar on special at the moment)
1 egg
4 oz melted marge

Mix the dry ingredients.
Add melted marge (I put this in the microwave on "deforst" ) then add beaten egg.
Spoon onto baking tray, level off and pop in oven @ 180 C/350 F for about 15 minutes.
Remove from oven and leave to rest for 5 minutes.
Turn out and cut into squares.

McKneff

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I'm not much of a baker because I don't have a very light touch but even I can make Weetabix Brownies that turn out edible, look very appealing and they're very, very moreish:

4 crumbled Weetabix
4 oz sugar
4 oz SR flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
100 gr chopped chocolate (Somerfield have their "Simply Value" ones at 30 pence a bar on special at the moment)
1 egg
4 oz melted marge

Mix the dry ingredients.
Add melted marge (I put this in the microwave on "deforst" ) then add beaten egg.
Spoon onto baking tray, level off and pop in oven @ 180 C/350 F for about 15 minutes.
Remove from oven and leave to rest for 5 minutes.
Turn out and cut into squares.

ooh, Ive added these to my favourites to have a go on my next baking day.

Ladyhawk

What about some meringues?