My girls' half term starts Monday and I thought it'd be nice if we made something different from our normal scones, cookies, muffins, flapjacks- although I'll probably make all this too!!
Does anyone have any yummy recipes they feel like sharing?
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oops bit quick off the mark there! sorry. i sent my two boys into school with cakes today thinking it was the cake sale for red nose day. only a month out. doh! i will look up my banana cake recipe for you. :)
Try here:
www.recipes4us.co.uk
or here
www.recipes4all.co.uk
this is great for left over banananas.
bananana cake
4 ripe bananas
140g (5oz) butter
250g (9oz) soft brown sugar
2 eggs
250g (9oz) s/r flour (works ok with s/r wholemeal too)
handfull of raisins
whack it all in the mixer and whizz ...or
mash bananas
beat in softened butter
add sugar and mix
add eggs and mix
add flour and mix
add raisins and stir.
9" square tin or near as. grease well i always use greased greasproof paper for this one.
cook at 180/350/4 for about 40/45 minutes.
;)
oldish recipes but nice
strawberry swirls gas mark 4, 180c
250g softened butter
90g caster sugar
ew drops of vanilla essence
200g plain flour
60g cornflour
4 to 5 tablespoons strawberry jam,icing sugar for dusting
piping bag fitted with a large star piping tube,bun tray lined with paper cases
cream butter, sugar, vanilla until light and fluffy,sift tog flours, beat gradually into the creamed mix
fill the piping bag with the mix, leave a small hole in the middle..bake for 15-20 mins, cool and fill the middle with jam, dust with the icing sugar
also have marigold munchies, oasis cakes, crystal cubes and oasis cakes if you're interested..30 years old but yummy ;D
Ha ha Sarah, glad I'm not the only one! I did that at Christmas!! I do make banana bread, is yummy.
Manics, that sounds gorgeous and kids will love the piping!! Will have all recipes if you don't mind, they all sound brilliant.
right, here we go, excuse any spelling mistakes
crystal cubes, sorry, all imperial
for the base, 4oz plain flour, 2oz marge
topping 4oz marge, 4oz sugar, 1 large egg, 4oz sr flour, 1oz cherries, 1oz mixed fruit, bit of almond essence, 3 tablespoons milk, shallow 7" square cake tin
for the base, sift flour, mix in marge,mix cold water until stiff dough, roll to tin size, press down
topping, beat marge to a soft cream, add sugar, beat 'til light 'n' fluffy, beat the egg and add gradually, beat well between. Sift flour, using a metal spoon, fold in with cherries, fruit, almond essence and milk.
turn onto the base, spread, bake centre of oven, gas mark 6, 10 mins, reduce the heat to 5 for 20 mins or until it's light brown, sprinkle with caster suger, cut into 16
marigold munchies
2oz marge 2oz sugar, 1 large egg, 2oz plain flour, grated rind and juice half orange, 4 level tablespoons apricot jam, 4oz plain choc
melt marge in a small pan over low heat, remove pan and add sugar, beat the egg, mix in with all the other ingredients except for oj, choc and jam . Lightly grease the patty pans, divide the mix between them, about half fill. Bake gas mark 5, 10 to 15 mins until well baked and crispy
mix oj, and jam, when cakes are cool, spread som on each one, melt choc, spread over the jam carefully
leave in a cool place, store in an airtight tin
hope you can understand these ;D
HI
You will need
- Bag of marshmellows
- smarties
- Choc
- Cornflakes
- nuts ( handful chopped )
1st make your TOP HATS
Melt some chocolate and pop a tea spoonfull into a baking case get a marshmellow and pop into the case onto the choc and sqush choc to the edge.
pop a dollop of choc on the top to secure a smartie and pop in the fridge.
make a cup of tea ( crucial part that ) now take the top hats out and eat them carefully taking them out of the cases whilst drinking tea preferably with feet up watching tv.
You should have used 1/3 of the chocolate for this now add the chopped nuts and cornflakes
now fill the cases with mix and leave to cool then pop in fridge. ;D
Cambourne7
real gingerbread men, by ray's mum
4oz marge, 8oz soft brown sugar, 3 level tablespoons golden syrup,, 1 large egg, 12 oz plain flour, 2 level teaspoons ground ginger, 1 level teaspoon bicarb, 1 level teaspoon baking powder
to decorate, dessicated coconut, currants, glace cherries
melt marge, syrup and sugar in a pan, over a gentle heat, take the pan off, beat the egg, mix it into the melted ingredients, sift the flour, ginger, bicarb and baking powder, stir into the mixture to make a soft but pliable dough
take a small amount of dough, roll into a ball, 1" in diameter, dip 1/4 in coconut, place on tray..make a sausage shape for the body, two arms, two legs, just touching, they will cook together..cherry bits for buttons, currants for eyes..when they're all on the tray, bake gas 4 for 10 to 15 mins..ours used to love making these, we also made them for school sales :)
coconut castles
4oz dessicated coconut
2oz sugar
1 egg white, cherries
beat egg white
mix everything together, get an egg cup, put a cherry in the end, fill with coconut mix, turn out and cook for 15 minutes or until a pale brown
we always use a stainless steel egg cup with a hole in the bottom
Hi I have got my grandchildren into making their own lunch my making sausage rolls easy with 1 pkt frozen puff pastry 1 egg and 1 pkt sausage
portion out the puff pastry between them and skin the sausage and let them loose!
egg wash at the end.
while they are cooking make cookies all recipes before seem great
then while they are cooking make smoothies or fresh fruit salad??
If they make them themselves they usually eat it all !!
Best of luck
Yay!! :-* :-* :-* to all of you, these are fantastic! Girls going to be so excited when they see new goodies! You are brilliant, all of you thanks so much! started frantically scribbling then thought, ooh look, print page button!! ;D Cambourne that just made me laugh and laugh! Plus they sound gorgeous.
Do we really make all this to entertain the kids? Well, it's a nice excuse and you have to taste to make sure it's not poisoned! ;)
glad it made you smile :-)
.....yes and then you need a cup of tea to wash it all down with and its best to sit down when you drink that :-)
Our favs were thumbprint cookies.......basically shortbready type biccies, in with the thumb, and fill the hole with jam!
Can dig out the recipe if you would like, oh and there is always the salt dough or play dough recipes! ;D
Here's a yummy recipe for Weetabix Cake.
Gas Mark 3 / 150 C
Put 2 Weetabix, 8 oz soft brown sugar, 6oz dried fruit (I use sultanas) in a bowl and add 1/2 pint of milk. Leave in the fridge overnight to soak.
Next day - Give it a stir and then add 1 egg and 7 oz self-raising flour.
Put mixture in a greased or lined loaf tin and cook for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours.
I've just made this tonight and it's lovely with a nice cuppa!
Linda.
Fab, thanks Linda and Doris.P! Weetabix cake sounds great, funny as I looked at the weetabix the other day and thought, hmm, what can you do with that!
Lovely x
How about Hot cross buns? Or is it too early for those? (I'd eat them year round if they weren't so bad for me with all the butter I put on them)
Last time I made them, I used this (http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/food.recipe/aid/515431) recipe.
Oooh Moggle, you sound just like me! Thanks for that recipe I might have a go this afternoon. Looks like another wet half term afternoon coming up and as my boys are just recovering from flu this might be a good idea. Can't take them out as they may still pass it on to other people - not happy bunnies!
I'm hungry now, I must go check I have some yeast...:)
Yikes, anything you put butter on is the thigh killer for me. :'( I remember years ago saying to my mum I was going to give Rosemary Conleys hip and thigh diet a go and she just laughed and said, you know you have to give up butter and cheese don't you!! doesn't stop me though so thanks moggle for that. The g ::)irls love to make anything with yeast. Magic ingredient! Tried to mke chelsea buns the other day but they didn't prove so bit of a mess!
By the way, year round HCB eating can be semi achieved by the making of teacakes!!