store cupboard cake recipe?

attentionseeker1

Hi all

Just a quick question for anyone good at baking! I would like to bake something to fill us up as no £ to buy ingredients and although we have dinners sorted due to some offers in the freezer, OH likes a dessert as well!

In the cupboards I have plain and s/r flour, raising agents, caster, icing and dk brown soft sugar, cocoa powder ground almonds, flaked almonds, chopped hazelnuts. A few apples and carrots going spare.

But I don't have any veg oil to make muffins (only have olive oil left), have maybe 200g butter spread and a couple of eggs. Can I make anything tasty out of this?

Butterfly_Brain

Wartime recipes are great for using minimal ingredients, here is a cake that I make a lot when the pennies are a bit on the sparse side.

War sponge
175g/6oz plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
70g/2½oz margarine
60g/2¼oz sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
150ml/¼ pint milk
2-3 tbsp jam or lemon curd
Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Grease and line two 18cm/7in sandwich tins.
Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl.
Cream the margarine, sugar and golden syrup until light and fluffy. Add a little flour then a little milk and repeat until all of the flour and milk has been added and the mixture is smooth and well combined. (Add a little extra milk or water if the mixture is too stiff.)
Divide the mixture between the tins and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until risen and golden-brown.
Remove the cakes from the oven and set aside to cool for 20 minutes or so. Remove the cakes from the tins and set aside to cool completely.
Sandwich the cakes together with jam or lemon curd
Alternatively add 2 tbsps of bottled lemon juice to make a completely lemon sponge and bake in a lined loaf tin, great sliced for lunch boxes or just for a tea time treat

Little_Vics

yes! A basic sponge recipe is:

4oz butter/marge
4oz sugar
4oz sr flour
2 eggs

beat them all together in the normal way, put into muffin cases and bake at 180degrees for 15-20 mins.

You can add anything to the batter for flavor, or make butter icing and use the nuts to decorate.

[Deleted User]

You could make a 4 quarters cake, but it won't be very big.

malamay

I have an old cookbook from the 70s, and I love the carrot cake recipe in it.

100g margarine
100g soft dark brown sugar
100g plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
.5 tsp bicarb
2 eggs
100g grated carrot
100g seedless raisins
50g walnuts (I don't use these)

Cream together fat and sugar. Sift flour with raising agents. Gradually beat eggs into creamed mixture, adding flour mix after each addition. Fold in remaining flour, followed by carrots, raisins and walnuts. Divide between 2 pans and bake at 180 for 30 minutes, or until risen and firm to the touch.

This makes a small (7") cake. I normally make 1.5x this recipe for my 8" pans, and get a more substantial cake, or as it is for 10-12 muffins.

You can frost with cream cheese icing, but it is lovely and moist on its own!

attentionseeker1

Hmm some great ideas thanks! Will try a carrot cake or lemon cake for tomorrow night then!

ash28

Apple upside down cake......apple pie.....apple crumble.....

Carrot cake.....

No Pastry Apple Pie

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/7878/no-pastry-apple-pie.aspx

freyasmum

Run some warm soapy water into a washing-up bowl.
Cream 50g sugar and 50g butter.
Gently add in 1 egg.
Fold in 50g SR Flour.

Add 2 tbsps golden syrup (or jam, if you prefer) to a microwave-safe bowl and top with the cake batter. Place mixing bowl into the sink. Cover cake mix with clingfilm and pierce several times.

Microwave the sponge for 3 1/2 minutes while you give the spoon and mixing bowl and quick wash.

Serve with custard or ice cream if you like.

I hope you enjoy