Baking day...What to bake???

thriftlady_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

That looks delicious -I'm having a baking day tomorrow and would like to make it. The recipe calls for a 8" tin - is this round or square I have both

TIA, Penny. x

Either Penny. In fact I doubled the recipe and did it in a traybake tin. It cut into 20 small pieces. I've just sampled a bit and it is yummy. BTW I used sunflower oil in place of butter- works just as well.

belfastgirl23

I can also recommend the hobnobs. While they do have a lot of sugar and butter (and they are nicer made with butter than with marg) they are based on oats. I've also made them successfully wtih some peanut butter and peanuts in them. they are yummy!!

I don't think it's particularly cheaper but a lot nicer. The other side benefit from this is your children seeing you bake. I've noticed a big difference, even in my own generation (late 30s) between people who have seen baking happening and people who haven't. If you've been around it you always feel you can give it a go. But if you haven't it's a total mystery. So you're doing your children good by setting an example as well

LJM

i prefer to homebake at least i know what goes into the food because ive made it.we do buy the odd packet biscuits/cakes but its scary when you look at the lists of ingrediants at what actually goes into shop bought

jcr16

a nice simple biscuit recipe is

750g plain flour
500g butter
250g caster sugar.

mix the flour and butter together and form a bread crumb type texture then mix through the sugar . once done kneed the dough into a ball. i will do a bit at a time as there alot of mixture. Once done roll oput on a lightly floured surface and cut with cutter's. bake on gas mark 3 or 4 for about 10 min's. Then leave to cool. they have a wonderful butery texture bit like shortbread. also i add extra to recipes to make veriations to it. if i do this then i only add 700g of flour. the variations i make are

Mini smarties,
choc chips,
raisins and choc chips
cherries ( but cut them up smaller)
Almond and cherry

This recipe came from here a while back i think it was freyasmum who posted it. but it was larger qty's as it a recipe from a school kitchen. and it uses marg instead of butter but i changed it to suit.

With baking a keep a huge stock in of oats, syrups, different sugars, butters, marg, cake decorations, bars of choc( milk and white) eggs, flours, flavour's,nuts , dried fruit's etc so i can at any time make something if the kids want a treat. only take about 5 mins to whip up a batch of fairy cakes, then the kids can not only decorate them but also eat them.

Enjoy your baking.

rosieben

thriftlady wrote: »

... . Muffins can be varied at will. There's a basic recipe on here somewhere to which you can add all kinds of dried, fresh, tinned and frozen fruit, nuts and seeds, carrot, pumpkin, cheese and herbs. You can use wholemeal flour, cornmeal and oats. ....

basic muffin recipe

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

I've also got this cake in the oven too. Fantastically moist and just bursting with good things.

Me too and I've added 50g sultanas for extra bursting-ness I've also got a sponge cake (really easy to make) and a batch of chocolate and toasted nut muffins for DD when she gets home from school.

Penny. x

ness_w

I make chocolate chip or raisin cookies out of an all-in-one oaty recipe - very easy. I also have a brilliant muffin recipe book I bought in Canada 20 years ago, it has brilliant recipes that always work and I like using cup measures because they're so quick. Our favourite is chocolate volcano cakes but they are a bit fiddly. I have twin boys who are three and they make a weetabix cake each ecery fortnight or so - that's how easy they are!

sillyvixen

i make bannana cake - since i started making it i am sure my brother has purposely stopped eating bannanas (i cant eat a whole value bag in a week) so as they start to go overipe and i make bannana cake rather than chuck them - i have 3 in the freezer - my mum asks for one when she has visitors as it always goes down a storm and she knows i will only have to take one out the freezer!!

CT19720

ness_w wrote: »

I make chocolate chip or raisin cookies out of an all-in-one oaty recipe - very easy. I also have a brilliant muffin recipe book I bought in Canada 20 years ago, it has brilliant recipes that always work and I like using cup measures because they're so quick. Our favourite is chocolate volcano cakes but they are a bit fiddly. I have twin boys who are three and they make a weetabix cake each ecery fortnight or so - that's how easy they are!

Could you post up the recipe for the chocolate chip cookies - or does anyone else have an easy one to make?

Thanks

wogglemaker

A simple price for price comparison I can give you all!!!!

I made a batch of Twinks before Christmas as a pressie for my parents cost for 50 + under £2.00 a pack of 6 similar biccies at our local farm shop (only looked when getting a bag of spuds) £2.50.

total rip off, and don't start me on the price of chutney in these places!!