[matilda duck]

Boil in the pan fruit cake everytime!!! Just so moist and yummy ...I really want some now

[Janeymiddlewife]

Jam crumblies (shortbread base, cooked, spread with loads of jam, then crumble mix on top & back in the oven), or if you want a cake to cut, toffee apple crumble cake,
make a large quantity of crumble divide in 2; add an egg to one half and press into an 8 inch round tin, top with sliced cooking apple, the remaining crumble, dot with butter & demerarar sugar and cook in a moderate oven until it looks done (45 minutes to an hour) cover with brown paper if it starts to burn before you thin it's doen - have really got into crumble based cake lately!!

[New shoot]

I'm no cake maker but this is an easy peasy one for making in a bread machine. I used to work in a nursery where we had a small cafe and I used to make this for customers. It always went down a treat.

Mixed fruit teabread

9 1/2 oz/255g dried fruit of your choice
4oz/115g soft light brown sugar
7 fl oz/200ml orange juice
1 lightly beaten egg
3 1/2 oz/90g each of plain white & plain wholemeal flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Soak fruit in sugar and orange juice overnight
Add the rest of the ingredients next day and mix well
Take the paddle out of the bread machine and butter the bread pan well - you can cut a nifty non-stick liner out of that reusable baking sheet if you want to avoid the extra fat
Pour in mix and set to bake only for 55-60 mins
Once cooked, take the bread pan out of the machine and leave the cake in there for 2 -3 mins before turning out onto a rack to cool
Slice and serve on it's own or with butter as you prefer
Get next lot of fruit on to soak cos you will want more 

[suziet88]

Banana Chocolate Tray Bake

2 large ripe bananas
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
6 oz butter
8 oz granulated sugar
10 oz self raising flour
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 eggs
4 oz chopped up chocolate (or posh cooking choc drops)

Melt butter, stir in sugar. Mash bananas and add to mixture along with eggs and vanilla. Stir well. Add in rest of ingredients.

Put in lined tray bake tin, mine is 20cm x 30 cm (8" x 12")

Bake on 160C (unfortunately I didn't write down how long I cooked it for but when it browns it's done - hopefully that works for you)

This recipe can be used with rice flour, extra 1/2 tsp bicarb and 2 Tbs water, if you are avoiding wheat. It can also have walnut instead of chocolate or as well as.

Made this today - its yummy, yummy, yummy

[Poolfield2]

Glad you like it, if there is any left tomorrow, it gets more moist and bananary

[digalotty]

carrot cake or ginger cake or a bit of both

[janed6]

I havent had much time for years to do much baking as I've been busy looking after a large family, just cooking family meals . They are leaving me now one by one with the baby just moving out now, only one left, so I would like to do some more baking and trying something new. The muffins with the blue berries sound lovely so might give it a go.
not sure how to get on this forum as the computer tends to do crazy things somedays (or is it me).
Need some chats and some company on these cold days, with no chance of getting near the garden.

[Elaine G]

A word of warning janed6.
If you start baking cakes and other tasty goodies, they will come back - and bring other halves with them!
Its amazing how often they appear. They can smell a muffin for miles

Elaine

[arugula]

I havent had much time for years to do much baking as I've been busy looking after a large family, just cooking family meals . They are leaving me now one by one with the baby just moving out now, only one left, so I would like to do some more baking and trying something new. The muffins with the blue berries sound lovely so might give it a go.
not sure how to get on this forum as the computer tends to do crazy things somedays (or is it me).
Need some chats and some company on these cold days, with no chance of getting near the garden.

They are lovely and soooo easy. Go on, give them a go!

[mumofstig]

Another word of warning, when there are fewer of you at home, it means you get to eat more of the cakes you bake.
Beware of the weight gain involved

[MoreWhisky]

MY wife follows this recipe for a carrot cake its fantastic! it actually costs about £7.50 in ingredients but worth it for a treat once a month.

http://www.cakebaker.co.uk/MakingThePerfectCarrotCake.html

[noshed]

Well the troops have just wolfed down two of Val's date loaves - I added apricots because I didn't have enough dates. It was yummy.
I also did a Delia ginger maple syrup gateau - a cheat really but also yummy.

[lisa80]

if you like chocolate cake this is the best and very east too!
8oz self raising flour
3tbsp cocoa
2tsp baking powder
8oz margarine
4 eggs beaten
8oz caster sugar
10tbsp milk
mix all together until it goes like a mousse (sieve cocoa and flour before adding,electric mixers get better results)put into 2 well greased 8" tins and cook at160 0c for 50 mins .tho keep an eye on it if you have a fan assisted oven ,they cook much quicker.i always put a little extra cocoa and fill it with jam and butter icing.beware your house will smell of chocolate for days and it wont last long

[wighty]

Toss in Fruitcake recipe

Toss into bowl  8oz S.R. flour
                        4 oz Demerara sugar
                      12oz mixed fruit
                        2 eggs
                        4oz melted marg.
                        tsp mixed spice
                        Tbsp black treacle
                        cup of milk

Beat all ingredients together and then cook 2 hrs at no.2.  Makes a really moist fruit cake that keeps well.

[Elcie]

Not in time for your birthday noshed (hope it went well) but this has got to be one of the most unhealthy cakes going, but it is very, very easy to make (no baking) and tastes delicious and like you have been baking for hours.

You will need:
chocolate chip cookies
sherry (you can substitute for orange juice I hear but never tried it)
whipped double cream
flakes

Pour the sherry in a bowl, take one cookie, dip it into the sherry for a second and then put on a plate on it's side.  Put small amount of cream on one of the round surfaces of the biscuit.  Repeat and stick the next biscuit to the cream on the first one.  You can make it into a ring around the outside of the plate, which is what I have done, or you can put them in a straight line for a smaller cake. 

Once you have your required shape, cover with the rest of the whipped cream, sprinkle with flakes, leave overnight in the fridge and in the morning you will have the most amazing cake.  No one would ever know that they were biscuits and will wonder at what an amazing cook you are