Cheap Cake Recipes?

tiff

ffion wrote: »

i tried the fuit tea bread it was rock hard on the outside and chewy on the inside same with weetabix cake help what did i do wrong:mad:

I'm no expert but either the temp was too high, the cake was too high in the oven or you cooked it too long?

lapis_lazuli

I do an all-in-one sponge: 4 Ounces of sugar, fat, and flour, plus 2 eggs. Bung it all in together and mix until it is completely combined. Divide the mixture into two sandwich tins, and bake in the oven at gas mark 4 for about 20 to 30 mins. Easy peasy! You can also add vanilla or cocoa powder to make it a yummy chocolate cake

mathsus

I've posted this before, so forgive me, but it really is goodand very cheap and you probably will always have the ingredients to hand. I think it's because of the sweet and salt thing.

Cheapest, yummiest, easiest traybake ever
Here's a traybake that always goes down very well and doesn't need any fancy ingredients. Value brands are great for this. It's another Mary Berry one from an ancient, yellowing copy of 'Family Circle'!.

Today's Rock Cakes

8oz 225g SR flour
4oz 100g soft marge
2oz 50g gran sugar
4oz 100g dried fruit - anything you like
1 egg
1tbs milk
good pinch salt
1oz 25g demerara sugar (gran will do) for topping

11" x 7" traybake tin. (I line it roughly with baking parchment)

Gas 6, 400F, 200C

• Rub fat into flour & salt
• Stir in sugar & fruit
• Stir in egg & milk to make a stiff dough
• Roll out roughly to size on a floured surface & press into the tin
• Cut out about 16 bars
• Sprinkle dem sugar on top & press in

Bake about 25mins. break into bars when cool.. Really lovely despite such a simple recipe

raven83

grumswifie wrote: »

Hi there

I make a really easy tea loaf which is very simple to make.

1 cup of black tea
1 cup of currants
1 cup of sugar
2 coups of self raising flour

Soak the currants in the tea for a couple of hours and mix in remaining ingredients. Put into a lined 2lb tin and bake for about an hour at 160c. Serve in thick slices slathered in butter.

i've since made this twice this week; once per recipe and the other i added 2 mashed up bannas to it oh and both times i added mixed spice and a dash of honey- OMG its soooooo lush, i make this and it don't last 5 mins as myself and my girls love it! they have it for snack and take it in their lunch boxes, its so simple and so scrummy you would thikn with no butter or eggs to bind it it wouldnt be that nice, but it soooooo is! i will be making this alot now!!! thankyou so much for the recipe!!!:j:j:j:j:j

Spinmerightround

I'm going to try the tea loaf recipe too once the apple cakes are out of the oven, will be perfect for lunch boxes I think

crockpot

raven83 wrote: »

i've since made this twice this week; once per recipe and the other i added 2 mashed up bannas to it oh and both times i added mixed spice and a dash of honey- OMG its soooooo lush, i make this and it don't last 5 mins as myself and my girls love it! they have it for snack and take it in their lunch boxes, its so simple and so scrummy you would thikn with no butter or eggs to bind it it wouldnt be that nice, but it soooooo is! i will be making this alot now!!! thankyou so much for the recipe!!!:j:j:j:j:j

Did you keep the fruit in or swap the fruit for the bananas?
Thanks

DawnW

This was a recipe we used to make with the little ones when I worked in a playgroup years ago. It uses no butter;

Playgroup applecake:

Weigh 2 eggs, note the weight. Crack the eggs into a bowl, then add the same weight (as noted down) of sugar and beat till slightly thickened. The fold in the same weight of self raising flour. Pour into a greased tin. The one I use is about 7 inches square, but you can use a round one if that is what you have - like one half of a set of sandwich tins.

Then cut up a couple of small apples (the tired looking ones left over in the fruit bowl, that nobody wants to eat are fine - cut off any bruised bits). You can peel them if you like, but don't have to. Remove the cores, obviously. Arrange the bits of apple on top of the cake mix, then bake at 180 degrees or gas 4 until risen and golden.

The little ones used to love to make this - there is lots of learning involved, in the weighing, talking about the ingredients, healthy food etc, the motor skills involved in beating, folding, greasing the tin, learning that the oven is hot and they must not touch (bless, some of them didn't seem to have any experience of cooking being done at home, or maybe they were just kept well away). And they loved eating it at break time with their milk!

You can also serve this as a pudding with custard or ice cream.

shining_light

Hi

this may be a silly question, but could u convert that to ounces? I did try to look up conversions on the internet but it seems like a lot

squeaky

If you mean the cups?

These recipes work by volume, not by weight.

A standard cup has a volume of 250 mil.

All you actually need to do it to pick any old cup or mug out of the cupboard and use that as your measure. Honest

In practice you can buy cup sets in the kitchen area of most supermarkets for between £1 and £2. Useful to have.

MaggieBaking

Made a lovely cake/dessert a couple of days ago - really recommended and very easy:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4062/gooey-school-treacle-sponge?pager.offset=20