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We love baking sponge cakes, cupcakes, biscuits & cookie dough. Our Shortbread biscuits are yummy & every1 else agrees. Just a basic recipe of 150g plain flour, 100g butter & 50g sugar. Rub the butter into the flour then add the sugar. Mix until a dough forms. Refridgerate for 20mins before rolling & cutting into individual biscuits or 1 large 1. U can also add chocolate chunks/chips. Bake @160C fan for about 12-20mins. Tastes great Straight from the oven or decorate with royal icing.

Our favourite is brownies www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1223/bestever-brownies
We reduce the sugar a bit and swap some of the choc chips for walnuts

We love chocolate chip cookies.

I've tried lots of different recipes but this one is the simplest:
275g soft butter
375g caster sugar (less if you don't want them too sweet. I sometimes put 325g and then taste)
4 eggs
75g cocoa powder
100g self raising flour
100g chocolate chips.
I prefer plain choc. You can smash up a bar in a bag with a rolling pin to make chips if you haven't got a pack of little choc chips.

Oven on 180degrees
Grease and line trays
beat ingredients in a bowl
make walnut sized balls and lay out onto tray. May need to do it in two lots, depending on size of cookie.

Cook for 25 mins or longer. Just keep an eye on them!

Our favourite is Jammy Flapjacks.
5oz butter, 3oz brown sugar, 3oz golden syrup, 8oz porridge oats, 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon - melt butter, sugar & syrup in a saucepan (don't let boil) - stir in oats and cinnamon. Press half the mixture into a sandwich tin, spread jam on top (you can use loads of different flavours to make these different every time), top with the remaining mixture and bake for 25 mins!
Super easy, super yummy!

Mars Bar crispy cakes!!
I've been making these with my gran since I was a small girl. Now I make them with my daughter. The only problem is they always taste better when my gran makes them! lol

Found the recipe we use dead on online too!!!

120g Margarine (Butter if you are wanting to be calorific :P)
4 Mars Bars or a supermarket equivalent
150g Milk chocolate
300g Rice Crispies or a supermarket equivalent

1.Cut the Mars Bars into small slices and melt with the margarine in a glass bowl over a saucepan of boiling water.

1. Take off the heat and mix in the Rice Crispies one cup at a time until the mixture is only slightly gooey.

1. Spoon the mixture into a tray and spread out evenly.

1. Heat up the milk chocolate in a glass bowl and spoon evenly over the Crispies.

1. Leave to cool slightly then place in the fridge for a few hours until set.

My children know a basic sponge recipe and we change it to whatever we want - lemon drizzle, chocolate etc. They love cooking and especially decorating cakes.

Fairy cakes and bread pudding are what my kids like making most. My bread pudding is always popular with others too.

Biscuits of any flavour but particularly chocolate, vanilla and mixed spice (Dad doesn't like ginger!). Cupcakes are a favourite too (especially the icing) and we recently added Danish pastries using ready-to-roll puff pastry to our repertoire which were a great hit. The pictures show last years Xmas cake with the houses made out of biscuits and decorated by my grandsons and the elder grandson's Valentine present for his Mum.

My DD(4) loves to make anything with us, but her most requested recipe is chocolate chip cookies.

2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 large eggs
8 oz. chocolate chips

Mix all the dry ingredients. Cream sugars and butter together. Add vanilla. Add eggs, mixing after each one. Slowly add dry ingredients and mix. Add chocolate chips and mix.

You can make them any size, you just have to adjust the time. However the original recipe is for huge cookies. Scoop cookies into 1/4 cup measuring cup and flatten lightly with your hand. Bake at 170 C, 12-15 minutes.

The all in one mix for chocolate banana cake. Bananas can be frozen when over ripe and used later. For special treat, add butter icing. Can be a big cake or small cakes.

Gingerbread men, cup cakes, tray bakes for sweet things and pizza dough for savoury. Pizza dough is brilliant as you can also "decorate" it afterwards with ham peppers tomatoes etc. bread rolls are also good as you get the excitement of watching the dough rise whilst you do other things .

I love baking with the kids and some of my favourites are chocolate chip cookies of different kinds, brownies with cookie dough and banana bread/muffins. YUM!

Anzac biscuits:

3 oz each oats oats and desiccated coconut, 4 oz plain flour, 6 oz caster sugar all mixed together in a bowl. In a saucepan melt 3.5 oz butter with 1 tbsp golden syrup. In a small mix half tsp bicarbonate of soda with 2 tbsp boiling water and mix into the butter mix. Add to the dry ingredients and bring together. Form into balls and bake for 15 minutes at gas 4.

simple fairy cakes are always winners which is just same oz flour,margarine,sugar and then half amount in eggs. the best butter cream ive made is from mary berry and its 400g icing sugar and 300g marg and splashes of milk to mix. this with the kids is brilliant! to make different falvours sub some of the flour with cocoa or camp coffee.

krispie cake which is rice kirspies marshmellows and toffees in equal amounts.
a tray bake sponge with lemon water icing and then loads of sprinkles on top.
friedge cake.melt down golden syrup,sugar,marg,add coco and drinking chocolate and then stir through digestive biscuits.leave in the fridge to cool.

don't be all healthy,baking is about treaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
oh and and they love it if they ge their own pinnies.
and its really easy to get them to wash up if you make it seem part of the fun.
enjoy it with them.if it make a mess embrace it.baking with the kids is the best times of their lives and yours.the best memories have come from there for us.

I bake regularly with my little people, so have lots of favourites, but my eldest (at the ripe old age of 4) is a dab hand at making chocolate biscuits. Here's the recipe we use:

250g butter, softened
140g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla extract
250g plain flour
50g cocoa powder

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and bake for 12-15 mins.

Basic vanilla cupcakes in our house.......simple but perfect.

We really love baking muffins made with ready brek instead of flour
Much healthier and so much fun as we then decorate with fondant letters that we've carefully made
We then give to each person and
Such a simple and effective way to encourage children to bake and have so much pleasure

Free From Spicy Fruit muffins:
PURE
Organic sugar
Free range eggs
Cinnamon, ginger, mixed spice
natural dried fruits - raisins, sultanas, apricot pieces
Gluten free plain flour
baking powder

Bish, bash, bosh - 15 minutes of tasting yumminess with good stuff in!

Ginger biscuits or a savoury bake with carrots and onions. DD loves rubbing in fat, anything to get messy!

We love to make Annabel Karmel cookies. So easy.
INGREDIENTS
100g butter, softened
100g light brown sugar
1 egg
150g porridge oats
75g self-raising flour
A pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
50g dried apricots chopped
50g raisins
100g plain chocolate chips

Cornflakes or rice crispie buns, easy, great fun and she loves to lick the bowl

We love making fresh bread, all the kneading is very therapeutic! It's good to experiment with a range of toppings - cheese, herbs, seeds, roasted tomatoes/peppers. Nothing beats home-made bread fresh out of the
oven 😀

We also love making giant chocolate chip cookies - great for birthdays etc as they can be iced with a special message

Gingerbread men are always a big hit with the kids, as are cupcakes (topped with colourful chocolate chips/glace cherry bits/'hundreds & thousands').

Our latest passion is home-made Chocolate Muffins . The following recipe is adapted from the 'BBC Good Food Guide' -->

INGREDIENTS:- In a Bowl - 125g Plain Flour / 25g Coco powder / 1tsp baking powder.
In a Jug - 1 egg / 60g sugar / 2tbsp oil / 100ml milk.
For the icing - 500g icing sugar / 1/2-1 tbsp warm water.

METHOD:-

1. Preheat the oven to 160C - seive the bowl ingredients into the bowl.
2. Mix the egg, milk, oil and sugar together in the jug.
3. Pour the egg mixture into the bowl (add chocolate chips now to make double chocolate muffins) and mix until combined but still lumpy.
4. Spoon mixture into cake cases and put the tray in the oven at 160C for 20 until set and cracked at the top. If not quite set put back in for a further 10 mins.
5. Whilst cooking make up some icing by adding the water to the icing sugar slowly and bit by bit until the consistency of golden syrup is at the preferred level. Add more icing sugar or water if needed.
6. Once muffins are done leave them to stand for 5 mins, then cover in icing and EAT!

My daughter's favourite is tiffin. I like a Victoria sponge. Want to try a carrot or banana cake though!