Baking - cheapest ingredients / best equipment?

Triker

Some great advice here but I would always advocate buying free range eggs, Aldi and Asda do them quite reasonably for a large box.

Browntoa

and Aldi's flour and sugar are normally cheap , think you missed the cheap baking stuff last sunday though , probably sold out

ellilew

I have learnt a lesson - always buy the best tins you can afford. Homesense often have red ticket ones at a really good price. The Range are fab for baking accessories. I use value or Aldi/Lidl flour. I use baking butter if making for the kids as they can't tell the difference. But if baking for adults or friends I always use a good quality unsalted butter as it has a much better flavour and makes the cakes lighter. Lurpak is really good for vanilla icing as it is so white. I have turned baking into my hobby and absolutely love it - remember the more you practice, the better it tastes! Good luck experimenting!

blackandwhitebunny

I've found some really nice 'bunt' type tines in tkMaxx's. They usually have a good selection of bakeware at a reasonable price. I did buy a tub of whitworth's cake release for the fancy tins and have found that to be worth it, there's nothing worse than spending ages making a special cake and then not being able to get it out. Normal tins I just use oil and flour.

sooty&sweep

Hi

I but the value bars of plain and milk chocolate from the supermarket. They work out at about 30p for 100g bar and then chop up into chunks.

Jen

kaydn

As many other people I use basic range for ingredients. I also use silicone baking tins, home bargains have good quality reasonably priced ones. Would recommend hand mixer for creaming sugar/marj if you can afford one and use internet or library books for recipes

recovering_spendaholic

I use Aldi flour, which I think is great and I also use caster sugar which at £1.09 a kilo is much cheaper than other supermarkets. I buy vanilla extract online (ebay is great as is amazon) and use prestige baking tins, which I get in Tesco as they are often on offer there.

I use Stork for cakes and unsalted butter (whatever is the cheapest) for buttercream.

I buy Sainsburys Basics eggs which are often free range (they are supposed to be barn but often they are fr or sometimes organic - I go through them all and check!) which are £1.79 for 15, and I also buy Sainsburys basics chocolate. The plain chocolate is as good as any brand make.

I buy value or basics golden syrup and basics/value/Aldi oats for flapjacks.

Dried fruit I ususally get in Aldi, same for nuts and ground almonds.

I used to have a kenwood mixer, but it broke and I have to say that I do miss it, but can manage just as well with my hand mixer.

Baking is a great hobby, but I don't do it that often any more due to the size of my rear end.

Angela

I would recommend the dr oteker muffin cases or fairy cases as they never come adrift from the cake and also the swedish ones they sell in lakeland bright colours,both are a bit more expensive but there is nothing worse than giving someone cakes and the cases are coming away it looks terrible,these are the only three types of cases I will use.
Also take the cases you are going to use with u when buying tins as the cases and tins vary by millimetres and you need the right size case for the tin.
HTH

stephen77

Put your money into equipment as your reap the reawards of better baked products.

if making for your family. Choose size tins that give you best bake. eg really small cupcakes have a large surface area to fill. So you may get more drying out of the cupcake. While really big size may take to longer to heat the centre up.
I would probably avoid novelty shaped tins as less even bakes from them. eg heart shape would not bake as well as a round tin.

Giltbrook_2

I ordered from these guys a few days ago and the baking stuff arrived really quickly.

justbake.co.uk