Baking for lunchboxes - any ideas?

jcr16

my children love home made sausage rolls, or pizza fingers.

unsure of the age of your children but mine are still quite young so they enjoy sandwiches which i then use cookie cutters on and make them lots of fun shape sandwiches. not baking i know, but makes for a bit of fun .

LumpyMoo

The best banana muffins in the world

Banana Bread / Muffins

My girls love these as muffins, dh and I love it as bread, either way they're scrummy. I do find it takes longer to cook than the stated time, so keep an eye on them.

Lumpy x

kersplatt

Currently baking in preparation for the return to school as well. I have weetabix cake and mini chocolate muffins in the oven at the moment. I'll make some apple muffins after that and then I make batches of twinks hobnots and open freeze on greaseproof paper the mixture so that I can just pop them in the oven straight from frozen to cook out when needed

Also have banana bread already in the freezer and will be making carrot cake as per weezl's cfr site recipe ready for school.

ubamother

I keep a shelf in the freezer for packed lunch items - raspberry buns go down really well with mine - basically a sponge or muffin recipe with frozen raspberries (or whatever) added before baking. These freeze well, and go in the lunch box and are defrosted by lunchtime.

I make a huge batch of thick savoury cheese sauce and a batch of pastry and use whatever bits I have to make things like mini-quiches and pasties.

mix sauce with beaten egg/s, and add whatever you have in the fridge to make mini-quiches, bake and freeze (I find mini ones freeze better than large, and ones made with sauce and a bit of egg rather than just egg freeze better again)
add peas, ham, spring onion and cooked cubes of potato and make mini-pasties.

paulus_the_woodland_gnome

mine love sausage rolls. They also love tuna and pasta salad (not strictly baking) but I put it in small flask type containers I got from Poundland

paulus_the_woodland_gnome

I also find that they need something like a sausage roll or scone when they get home at 4pm . They also love rock cakes -dead easy and cheap and freeze a treat

psso

Rock cakes are easy and a variation is jam buns. Use same ingredients as rc`s but leave out the raisins. Form the mixture into round bun shapes then make a dip in the centre with your pinkie finger and put a wee blob of jam in the hole. Bake as for rock cakes. My kids all loved them.
Weetabix cake, banana cake,date and walnut loaf,tea loaf can all be baked,sliced and frozen ready to take out as needed.

Savoury mini quiches with various fillings or sausage rolls were popular here too.