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Biscuits
100g/4 oz butter, 3oz caster sugar, egg separated,70z plain flour, pinch salt, 11/2 tsp ground mixed spice, / tsp ground cinnamon, oz currants, tbsp. chopped mixed peel.
Cream butter, sugar together until pale & fluffy. Beat in egg yolk. Sift in flour, spices & mix well. Add fruit, peel & sufficient milk to make a soft dough. Knead slightly, & roll out inch thick. Cut into rounds or shapes & place on a greased baking tray. Bake 200oC for about 10 minutes. Remove & coat with beaten egg white, sprinkle with caster sugar, & return to bake for about 5 minutes until golden brown. Enjoy!

Chocolate chip cookies or fairy cakes - super yummy and super simple x

Our favourite and foolproof recipe is simple jammy biscuits. The kids can't ruin it and it's not too messy. What's more is they are very quick to bake and they are delicious.
200g self-raising flour
100g caster sugar
100g butter
1 egg lightly beaten
4 tbsp strawberry or any otherjam
Rub the flour, sugar and butter together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Alternatively, you can do this in the food processor. Add enough egg to bring the mixture together to form a stiff dough.Flour your hands and shape the dough into a tube, about 5cm in diameter. Cut into 2cm-thick slices and place on a large baking sheet. Space them out as the mixture will spread when baking.Make a small indentation in the middle of each slice with the end of a wooden spoon, and drop a tsp of jam in the centre. Bake for 10-15 mins (190C/fan 170C) until slightly risen and just golden. Cool on a wire rack.
Actually I think we might make them now

Tomatocake:
Dough: 125gr flour, 125gr oats, 1egg, 125 gr soft butter, 4tb water bake for 15 mins in the oven
Put tomatoes on top, red pepper cubes, cover with grated cheese.
Pour 200 ml sour cream into a bowl mix with 3 eggs, parsley, 2tb oats, pepper, salt pour over cake.
Bake for another 20-30 mins

Ooo I'm going to try those Nutella cookies, they sound amazing!

Nutella cookies - but on the cheap!

1 cup / Half a jar of Nutella (Aldi version if we are being cheap)
1 cup of SR flour
1 egg
Handful of choc chips

Mix everything together, on a baking tray, stick in the oven for 7 mins at 160 (fan oven) and then try and resist eating them ALL!

our toddler son loves making theses- especially licking the bowl after - can't imagine why! It's so easy using the cup measurements for him too, no trying to weigh things out.

My dc like anything that can be cut using cutters and decorated. Usually basic biscuits and cupcakes!

Brownies are our favourite here - my favourite recipe uses butter, dark chocolate, plain flour, cocoa powder, white chocolate, milk chocolate, 3 eggs, caster sugar. I melt the chocolate together, whisk the eggs and sugar and then add the flour and cocoa powder. Bake for 25-30 min.

Rice crispie cakes and crazy decorating.

Ours is chocolate brownies from the Mumsnet cookbook. It is excellent for dealing with exam stress - dd1 took great delight in whacking the chocolate bars against the kitchen counter to break them up. Eating them was pretty good too!

There's 3 favourites round our house:

• banana bread
• homemade pizza bases & toppings
• carrot cake

We have a rotation of simple fairy cakes, gingerbread men and butter biscuits. The butter biscuits are currently the most popular as dinosaur-mad DS has an array of cutters to use.

A dairy free dark chocolate chip rocket cake or cupcake. Normally it's cupcakes but every now and again we like to make a rocket to.

I like doing cornflake crispy cakes and flapjack with my two. They are ideal as nothing has to be very hot and nothing is 'raw' so it doesn't matter when they eat it half way through!

MN banana bread as already linked but we put ours in the bread maker.

Otherwise we choose something out of Lorraine pascale cookbook.

Scones. We make them twice a week and it entertains my toddler for 45 mins - 1 hour. I use 3/4 of the dough to make actual scones while she rolls and cuts shapes while I wash up. Win win.

Gingerbread men (and animals, cars, random shapes)

Also fairy cakes. When I 'm feeling brave I let them decorate with icing and Smarties/buttons.

Banana bread! Every time. We always chuck in chopped walnuts & choc chips too!

I'm really not good at baking with my dc. I'd far rather wait until they're a bit older, teach them to bake, then leave them to it. Seems to have worked well, with them all being able to bake cakes and biscuits, and follow a new recipe. My most competent baker is my youngest. Their favourite bakes are Lemon Drizzle Cake (dc1), Choc Chip Cookies (dc2), and Cheese Straws (dc3).

Marble cake is my daughters favourite. I bake every 2 weeks. x

Chocolate crispies, cut out biscuits - aeroplanes / cars / trains and stars are favourites - and cakes "big and small". Eating any 'spare mixture' and then decorating the cake with butter cream or biscuits with bright coloured icing from tube. Yummy scrummy! Xx

Rocky Road!

Smash up chocolate digestives and mix with mini marshmallows and a pack of dried cranberries (to offset the sweetness. Melt chocolate with some butter and golden syrup and mix it all up and refrigerate. Don't have exact quantities as judge by eye but it's easy and delicious.

Little cup cakes - sponge with icing on the top and maybe some sort of decoration.
DC are only 3 & 1 so it's all pretty basic! They just enjoy putting everything in a bowl, mixing it all together, linking the spoon and obviously eating the end result!

We love making shortbread. It's really simple, just cream 125g butter and 55g caster sugar and stir in 180g plain flour. Roll out, cut into 16 rounds and chill in the fridge for 20 mins. Then bake at 190 degrees for 15-20 mins.

I'm guilty of using kits to make cupcakes as DD loves the decorations.

Also a big fan of traybakes, especially raspberry and coconut.

We are trying oat raisin biscuits this week.