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What are your go-to bakes to make with the kids? Tell us to win a £100 John Lewis voucher + signed copy of Hugless Douglas and the Great Cake Bake

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SorchaMumsnet · 24/08/2016 13:09

Join Douglas on a honey hunt in the seventh Hugless Douglas adventure from David Melling.

The sheep are baking honey cakes and Douglas can't wait to taste them. He's sure that food without honey just isn't yummy. But can he ever be tempted to try something new?

To be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of Hugless Douglas and the Great Cake Bake PLUS a £100 John Lewis voucher, just tell us - what are your favourite bakes to create with your children? (include the recipes if you can!)

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What are your go-to bakes to make with the kids? Tell us to win a £100 John Lewis voucher + signed copy of Hugless Douglas and the Great Cake Bake
What are your go-to bakes to make with the kids? Tell us to win a £100 John Lewis voucher + signed copy of Hugless Douglas and the Great Cake Bake
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TheSpottedZebra · 25/08/2016 15:41

Oops. That was meant to read that PP mentions

TheSpottedZebra · 25/08/2016 15:40

Our go - to recipe is also the basic bun one that PP ,envious - the 4442 one scaled up or down.

We also make cornflake cakes or rice crispie cakes quite a lot too. Yum.

Hadagutsful · 25/08/2016 15:38

Banana bread - we know it off by heart and frequently have bananas that need using!!

3 overripe bananas, mashed (any of them can do that!)
360g SR flour
80g-100g caster sugar (depending on how "healthy" I'm trying to be)
50g butter melted
1 egg, beaten (4 year olds favourite bit)
125ml milk

Sift and stir all dry ingredients. Make a well, add all wet ingredients except banana. Mix. Then mix in mashed banana. (Sometimes we throw in some chocolate chips [unless it's a "healthy" loaf!] Grin) Chuck in loaf tin. Bake in warm oven (160ish) for around 50 minutes. Scoff while warm. Assembling it takes literally minutes and it's yummy.

SweetPeaPods · 25/08/2016 15:34

Betty Crocker chocolate brownie mix. Dairy free so both DC can eat them.
They enjoy opening the packet and mixing the egg and the oil etc then pouring into the tin.

foxessocks · 25/08/2016 15:05

Simple chocolate chip buns or sultan buns or coconut buns 4oz sugar 4oz butter 2 eggs 4oz s-r flour and then whatever you want to add. Simple and effective! Anything more complicated I don't usually attempt with my dd but she is only 2.5 so she tends to just stick her fingers in stuff and throw things about!