Please help me make some space!

Skint_Catt

Hi wonderful bakers of OS world!

One of the smallest cupboards in my kitchen is used by me for baking ingredients, but the amount of items I have 'left over' from baking recipes is starting to mean when I open the door things fall on me!

Please can you recommend any recipes from this lot which don't require buying anything new!

I want to use up;
small amount of whole almonds
3/4 can of black treacle
3/4 can of golden syrup
1/2 pot glace cherries
1/2 pot mixed peel
3/4 bag of demerara
Bottle of vanilla extract
1/2 tub of cocoa
3/4 bag 'soft' (not so sure!) light brown sugar
small bag of ground almonds
Tub dried skimmed milk(!)

I also have;
Plain flour
s/r flour
lots of granulated sugar
1/2 bag caster sugar
bicarb
baking powder
Cornflour
Mincemeat
raisins
yeast (small tin of - probably quite old)
1/2 bag mixed dried fruit
sultanas

I currently have 2 eggs & small amount of spread - I need to do a shop to get more butter & more eggs so if these are needed, recipes still gratefully received!

Many thanks, C xx

Skint_Catt

One for me to try

Mincemeat slice

8 oz mincemeat

4 oz margarine

3 oz sugar

2 eggs

5 oz self raising flour

Mix all the ingredients together. Spoon into a 10 x 7 inch baking tin and bake at gas mark 3, 160’C for 40 minutes. ( keep an eye on it though because it may cook in less time. In my fan oven it cooks much faster than that.)

purpleheather2810

Mmmmm, fruit cake....

kittycat204

These are nice, it's more of a whack it in recipe. Don't worry about not having exact ingredients. As long as you've got about the right amount of wet and dry ingredients and sensible substitutions.

Would help if I gave you a link, sorry about that http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/73617/cherry-and-coconut-florentines

BAGGY

If you bought a value bag of oats you could make granola or flapjacks.

malamay

I really like cherry cake. I would halve the recipe from Delia Smith, and make it in a muffin pan. I've used vanilla instead of buying almond essence before, and I never have demerara sugar

This would use up your ground almonds and cherries.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/sweet/old-fashioned-cherry-cake.html

floss2

Florentines? Would use your whole almonds, mixed peel & cherries...Delia has a lovely recipe here

floss2

Oh, and don't worry about your mincemeat - if it's sealed it will do next year's mince pies, if it's open, it's lovely in baked apples

Butterfly_Brain

Gingerbread Cake
350g plain flour
1½tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
4tsp ground ginger
110g butter
150g light soft brown sugar
3tbsp golden syrup
3tbsp black treacle
2 large eggs
7tbsp milk

Heat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Grease two 450g loaf tins and line the base and two short sides with one long strip of baking paper along it to hang over the ends slightly.
Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, ginger and cinnamon into a mixing bowl.
Gently heat the butter, sugar, golden syrup and treacle in a saucepan until the butter has just melted and the sugar has dissolved. Cool slightly then beat in the eggs and milk and pour over the flour mixture in the bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth and pour into the two tins.
Bake the gingerbread mixture for 50-60 mins until well risen and just firm to the touch. A skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean. Cool in the tin for 30 mins then run a knife along the unlined sides of the tin and lift the gingerbread out using the paper strip.
Leave the gingerbread to cool completely on a wire rack then wrap in foil and store for 1-2 days or up to 1 week before eating.
It can also be frozen, just defrost when you want to eat it.
My lot love it with hot custard as a pudding or just slice and eat with a cuppa

RAS

I know it may mean buying oats more stuff but flapjack would use some syrup and various almonds, dried fruits, cherries, peel, cocoa etc.

Also hunt out daisy's tea brack if you can (Jocasta Innes recipe).

Soak dried fruits in tea. Add flour, sugar and baking powder plus one egg. Bake as a loaf. Yummy.

Skint_Catt

Thanks all - I did make Twinks yesterday before I posted (but made them in a sandwich tin & cut into wedges) - DH & DD have value porridge oats for brekkie, so we always have some of those in I didn't think of putting dried fruit etc in them, but I will do next time

As you can tell most of the (open) ingredients are from Christmas cake - about the only thing I get to bake these days, but we've literally just finished eating last years, so I don't really want more fruit cake! Will make a tea brack though - maybe DH can take it to work

Thanks all for your input

C xx