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To pelt my cakes at this mum's head in the playground this afternoon? <fume>

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 27/03/2013 13:00

The school are having a cake sale tomorrow and have BEGGED for donations of cakes. They have been Facebooking about how desperate they are all week as they want to make a dent in the £12,000 target needed for some new play equipment in the playground. One might think that flogging cakes at 30 pee each is not the way to make a dent but that's another thing...

I am pushed for time this week but I thought I could do some cornflake easter nests with some mini eggs on top as a quick alternative to baking and frosting two dozen fairy cakes. So I went out and bought the stuff (which I reckon cost more than they will get from the sales tbh) Then I replied to one of the FB begging messages saying "I will bring some cornflake easter nests tomorrow, will have about 40" Then one of the PTA wimmin replied "Ha ha! That's great but be prepared to take most of them home as they don't sell as well as real cakes."

Fuck. You. Bitch.

:(

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pollywollydoodle · 27/03/2013 16:37

an aside to biddypop - a lot of the foodbank food goes to people with limited cooking facilities eg just a ring/ shared facilities/little money for fuel to cook with so food that is quick to put together and cook through is often most appreciated.
never heard of a problem with value foods

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 27/03/2013 16:36

I am SURE it's margarine. Sure of it. I can detect that greasy, tasteless, chemically stuff at a hundred paces.

And they never hold together properly when you add syrup/butter. They aren't rock hard and weapon-like. Unlike mine.

Oh God, I am getting smug like lemon drizzle, aren't i?

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anklebitersmum · 27/03/2013 16:33

Shock Margarine??? BORK

Guess I could negate the butter tho Hmm

TobyLerone · 27/03/2013 16:32

:o

Oh, god, I hope the Chair said to her "please don't make that gopping lemon drizzle cake this year."

TobyLerone · 27/03/2013 16:31

It's wrong for them to be chewy. They need to be sharp, so that they cut the roof of your mouth into ribbons, especially if you use cornflakes.

:o @ fibre.

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 27/03/2013 16:30

God, no. MIL makes her cornflake cakes with syrup and MARGARINE. They are a greasy mess and a relatively healthy (OK,not healthy healthy but not that bad either!) treat is turned into an artery-blocking festival. Yuck.

Anyway, when I got to the school I didn't see LemonDrizzleMaxi. The chair collared me however and I said that I was sorry if I'd said something to make LDM not want to contribute her cake? Well I don't think she is a MNer Grin The chair lady said "Oh it was something I said, actually. Not you, so don't worry." I wonder if I have put a cat amongst the pigeons and the chair has berated her lemon drizzle shambles behind the scenes? I don't think she has read this thread anyway. thank fuck

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GreenEggsAndNichts · 27/03/2013 16:30

I've just worked out the measurements for ours, for anyone wanting to give them a go: 6 cups rice crispies, 3 tablespoons butter, 280 grams of plain (or vanilla) marshmallows. In a very large pan melt the butter, then add marshmallows to melt those. Remove from heat, stir in the rice crispies. Then press the mixture into a buttered 9x13" pan, or it would probably fit in two small pans. Let it cool.

Also amazing with a spoon or two of peanut butter added to the mixture. Probably remove a TB of the butter if you decide to add PB.

anklebitersmum · 27/03/2013 16:28
Blush

the kids love 'em. Mum always used butter & golden syrup

Branflakes are half the price of cornflakes (I was very skint) and DD1 now qualifies chocolate in her lunchbox with a haughty "they're healthy-they've got fibre in" Grin

Pandemoniaa · 27/03/2013 16:26

Would it be wasteful to use granola?

Yes. It'd ruin lovely crispy cakes. Granola, indeed! The very idea! Pshaw!

minouminou · 27/03/2013 16:24

Just nominated it in Classics!

It has been the best one ever!

GreenEggsAndNichts · 27/03/2013 16:23

In the US we melt marshmallows for our rice crispy cakes. Makes them chewy (not the crispies ofc but the mixture is chewy instead of hard). Melt butter and marshmallows, stir in rice crispies, pat them in a buttered tin. Best thing evar.

Bran Grin Grin

nipersvest · 27/03/2013 16:22

oh, please don't make crispy cakes with butter and syrup!! just plain old melted chocolate and either corn flakes or rice crispies is all you need.

whattodoo · 27/03/2013 16:21

Branflakes?!!

Would it be wasteful to use granola?

DontForgetTheLightAlesLawrence · 27/03/2013 16:21

Thanks Marmkins.

This thread has it all.

TobyLerone · 27/03/2013 16:19

It's just chocolate, melted, and rice krispies stirred in until you can't get any more in and coated in chocolate.

It's wrong to put golden syrup or butter in it.

Also, BRAN FLAKES? What fresh yogurt-weaving hell is this?

anklebitersmum · 27/03/2013 16:16

Horry 200g chocolate, 50g butter, 2 tbsp golden syrup melted together. Add roughly 250g of bran or corn flakes. Grin

WireCatWhore · 27/03/2013 16:13

Best. Thread. Ever. Grin

HorryIsUpduffed · 27/03/2013 16:12

Right, I'm making crispy cakes now and I have NFI about quantities. Anybody?

whattodoo · 27/03/2013 16:12

Oh shit. Blush my thighs are HUGE from all the lemon drizzle cake I devour.
I know in my head that I am not lemon drizzle lady, but why do I feel ever so slightly doubtful?

littlemissbunny · 27/03/2013 16:06

Marmalade if your school didn't break up on a different day to ours I would think it was a member of our PTA saying that! I think every PTA has one!!

I'm also shamelessly marking my place

MyNameIsAnAnagram · 27/03/2013 16:05

Lemondrizzlelady, if you are reading, please please please make a marmalade cake for the bake sale this year Grin

GreenEggsAndNichts · 27/03/2013 16:02

hah Toby agree. I actually attend cake sales when I know a friend of mine has baked for it, because I love her cakes. I love my cakes as well (I would, I suppose!) but this way I'm contributing AND I know I'm going to get a very good cake in return.

Also, when I make my lemon drizzle cake (and I will, damn this thread), it's going to be properly soaked in syrup and have a ton of glaze on it. Because I'm a child when it comes to icing. :)

SummerRainIsADistantMemory · 27/03/2013 16:02

When we do a cake sale we hold it at the church and flog massively overpriced (usually shop bought) cakes to the elderly mass goers.

We make fortunes!

As for the crispy cake vs fairy cake debate.... Having conducted extensive research on small people at parties I can verify that the plate of crispies is always demolished before the first fairy cake leaves the table. I've tried tipping things in favour of the fairy cakes by covering them in luminous icing and sprinkles but the plain as day crispies still get devoured first.

anotheryearolder · 27/03/2013 15:57

I have to agreeToby Norovirus sprinkles ??Envy

EggsitPursuedByAChocolateBunny · 27/03/2013 15:54

I too am craving chocolate cornflake cakes.

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