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Simple choc flakes....melted chocolate, some butter and corn flakes. Fridge until set. Easy and the kids love making and eating!

We do the basic 6oz marg, 6oz caster sugar, 6oz SR flour and 3 eggs. (Collecting the eggs is a highlight as I keep chickens and guineafowl) Sometimes we make butterfly buns, but usually bake as a traybake and have great fun decorating with icing and sprinkles and small sweets.
We also enjoy making pasta too.

I have a lovely recipe for farmhouse carrot cake that my kids really enjoy making, licking the bowl and then eating with a big glass of milk. Yum!

Given the choice, ds would make condensed milk flapjacks, however they have now been banned apart from for extreme endurance sports as they are both too nice and too calorific.
We like making blender muffins, rainbow cupcakes (ds more than me), and apple cake

Gingerbread people are a favourite but we also love muffins with a teaspoonful of Nutella in the middle - just put a spoonful of cake mixture in the case, add a teaspoon of Nutella and then top with more cake mixture and bake as normal - yummy

Hardly a bake, I'm afraid but the favourite is peppermint creams, coated with chocolate!

River Cottage lemon drizzle cake - you just put all the ingredients into the mixing bowl and use a mixer for 5 minutes and it's done. The easiest cake to make with little ones and universally loved by all in our house!

Mary Berry's Blueberry muffins
Easy steps
Fun filling the cases
Delicious

Lemon traybake. Equal quantities of fat, sugar and SR flour and eggs. Like a sponge and make lemon icing and pour over it when cool. Yumm.
Plain scones are also a hit.

My healthy happy bake option would be
Apple bake surprise
Wash and core apples
Let kids fill holes with dried fruit & honey
Bake in oven for 20 mins!
Fun and not too sugary!
Yummy😀

I love to bake with the grandchildren, we often make cupcakes out of packets but a favourite is: lay out rich tea biscuits and smear over icing suger, squirt over the coloured ising suger from tubes and sprinkle hundreds and thousands, best 'baking' recipe ever especially for the really young.

I like to make a plain sponge in a loaf tin and throw in some blueberries or raspberries. When you come to slice it, it's 'very exciting' as to what you end up getting.
175g x Self raising , Caster sugar and butter.
3 x Eggs & 1tsp x Baking powder.
Mix all together until combined. Put a handful of whatever berries you want in, mix a bit more. Put in the loaf tin. Bake at 190 degrees for 25 mins (ish).

Cooking with a class of 4 year olds and wanting them all to be able to have a go, I often go for fairly traditional fairy cakes/cupcakes but let them all measure out own ingredients for an individual cake. For one cake case they measure out one teaspoon marg, one teaspoon sugar, one tablespoon SR flour, two tablespoons of an egg/milk mix and two teaspoons raisins or choc chips. It's not an exact science but they love having their own cake to take home.

Rice crispies or cornflakes in a bowl, melt milk choc in a Bain Marie, add to bowl and mix. Too chocolatey? Add more cerial. Too cerial-heavy? Melt more chocolate. Toblerone is extra good as it has bonus nuts and nougat. Add to cake cases, sprinkle smarties and mini marshmallows on top. Put in fridge to set. Lick bowl. Feel a bit sick. Sigh contentedly.

This is my 50 / 50 / 50 / and 1 egg (which is 50gms anyway) all in one cake
You can choose your flavours and the quantity you make.
In our house it often depends on the number of eggs we have to use up, or the number we can spare.

So we make up your recipe from ...............
1 egg
50 gm SR flour
50 gm sugar
50 gm tub margarine (not low fat stuff)

so 4 eggs will weigh 200 gms, so put in 200 gms of the flour, sugar and marg

the flavourings can be nuts, fruit, choc chips and so on, use 25gm to 1 egg

put all in a bowl and mix till soft

you will work out how many cake cases, which cake tins to use in time

Gas 5 for small cakes and Gas 4 for larger

enjoy

We bake shortbread biscuits as they're so easy to do and the children love to use cookie cutters to make lots of different shapes.

Chocolate crispy cakes - mix melted chocolate (and a little butter) with the cereal of your choice before wedging into fairy cake cases and bunging in the fridge (great for the hot days we've been having lately!). Add a few mini eggs at Easter time for a more festive treat.

Rice Krispie cakes made using 4 oz each of butter, toffees and marshmallows all melted together then with the cereal stirred well in - a sweet and sticky traybake!
I also have a Blue Peter recipe from way back for New Zealand Banana Cake - great for using up bananas when they are getting a tad too ripe.

I love to bake the one pot yogurt cake. Really simple and delicious.
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You don't have to add the berries, you could add lemon juice and zest or chocolate chips.

Chocolate Chip Cookies! They don't last long after they've been baked!

Jam tarts and fairy cakes are the favourite things to make in our house

Banana cake!

There's a recipe for chocolate biscuits in I think it's Nigella's Christmas book that's very easy and very fun when it comes to decorating, so that's probably the thing we make most often.

For quick and easy we buy the £1 cupcake kits with characters on. My kids also love making pancakes, and my favourite is jam tarts.