cheap puddings & treats

tootoo

Any inspiration please?
Currently making fairy cakes, scones and flapjacks but need more ideas please!

bellaquidsin

If you can make pastry a homemade apple pie is the best pudding ever.

A sponge cooked in the microwave is quick and easy and with jam or syrup in the bottom of the basin gives a delicious steamed sponge.

You can vary your fairy cakes with different flavourings i.e. coffee or chocolate and different toppings such as butter icing to turn them into butterfly cakes.

If you can get your hands on a Bero book (I think Morrison's sell it for about £1) there are endless possibilities in there. You don't have to use Bero flour, I don't, Ald* is fine.

HTH
Bella

-taff

jam roly poly, spotted !!!!!!, apple pie.

dylan2011

Chocolate brownies:
200 grams cheap dark chocolate (30p a 100g bar stuff)
200 grams sugar (caster or granulated, both work)
200 grams butter or marg
1 tbs instant coffee
75 grams SR Flour
2 Large Eggs
Bag of cheap chocolate buttons or similar (30p aldi ones are good, or an extra 30p bar chopped into chunks also good)
If you fancy it add a handful of walnuts, or raisins, or cherries, not essential but tasty.
Melt butter and chocolate together. Stir in coffee. Beat eggs and stir in to choc mix, stir in sugar, then fold in flour.
Fold in chocolate buttons/chunks. Fold in fruit/nuts if you want to.
Pour into lined and greased tray. Bake in over at 190 degrees for approx 25 mins-30 mins. Should be crispy on outside, a bit gooey in the middle. Should make 12 x very good sized brownies.

Banana cupcakes -
2 bananas, mashed
100 grams SR Flour
100 grams butter/marg
100 grams sugar
2 eggs
4 tbs milk
I also add a handful of raisins and a handful or chocolate buttons if I have them.
Makes approx 12 cupcakes.

Cream sugar and butter.
Mix in 2 beaten eggs.
Mix in 2 mashed bananas.
Fold in flour.
Add milk and mix together.
Fold in extras if you having them.
Fill cupcake cases approx 2/3rd full. (They don't rise as much as normal cupcakes). Bake in oven at 170degrees for approx 20 mins.

Also, check out the recipes index on the grocery challenge thread. The microwave puddings are quick, cheap and tasty. x