Easy school fete baking - help!

[Danascully2]

Hi bakers!

I can do basic baking, cupcakes etc but am rubbish at making things look nice. Also can't easily transport iced cupcakes to a school fete. So please help with easy recipes that look presentable and are robust enough to stick in a sandwich bag or something. Nothing involving rubbing fat into flour as that never works for me, think I have hot hands or something! I would much rather give a donation than faff about baking let alone actually attending the flipping fete but can't see that being an option anytime soon where I am.... And the school are generally great so I do want to help out. Thank you in advance from an exasperated mum with limited time and patience for baking :) (I may not reply until tomorrow but I haven't disappeared!).

Oat and raisin cookies?

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oatmeal-raisin-cookies

Chocolate brownies done as a tray bake that way you can slice in the tray but take the whole tray with you for easy transport. Add something like a chocolate orange slice or a malteaser to each slice when warm so they melt and stick on a bit if you want to fancy them up slightly.

Alternatively something savoury like cheese straws or cheese scones might go down well and be a bit different

Flapjacks/oat cakes

Rice crispy cakes always sell, cheat version just melt chocolate & stir in rice crispies.
Or you can melt butter, add syrup, sugar, cocoa and stir then add rice crispies pop in fridge an hour or freezer. Easy and kids love them.

Have a look on here:

www.janespatisserie.com/

Loads of brilliant recipes- I’d do some of the cookies, perhaps the triple chocolate chip ones?

I’ve never had a recipe fail, and they’re pretty easy. There are loads of YouTube videos for trickier ones.

Sorry, these are the triple chocolate cookies. They’re so good! (I use the cheaper choc chips from Aldi and they work really well)

www.janespatisserie.com/2015/03/23/triple-chocolate-chip-crinkle-cookies/

Having run the refreshment stall at several school fairs I can say that these will not be popular.
I once made some rocky road, and it was the first to sell out.

Rocky road. You don't even need to use an oven

Loads at our school hand in boxes of bought cakes. Kids don't care and I personally would always choose a shop one over an untrustworthy looking homemade one.

Loads at our school hand in boxes of bought cakes

The bought cakes were the last to go at DD's primary school - except for Battenburg cake.

Fifteens are really easy - 15 of everything
But I agree with rocky road. It's always a winner.

Ooh thanks everyone! I like the idea of rocky road and agree that there is unlikely to be any 'pester power' for cheese straws... What recipe does anyone use for rocky road?

chocolate brownies or chocolate cookies. My only advice is to make them strictly the same size otherwise children are spending ages choosing the biggest one.
I used to weight equal portions of dough before making them into cookies.

I use Nigella’s rocky road recipe. You can add extra stuff in if you want. Milky Way stars are good to make it look a bit special. www.nigella.com/recipes/rocky-road-crunch-bars

Also for a cake, I have been known to just get one of those Betty Crocker cake mixes and do them tray cake style. So easy and the devil’s food cake is pretty good.

Buy a gluten free cake or two, and hand it in with pride. Nobody ever has gluten free stuff at this sort of thing, and this coeliac would be bloody thrilled at being able to join in 😉

Alternatively, buy a handmade cake and sift some icing sugar over the top.

I’d prob do brownies. Very easy. Rocky road is grim I have no idea why people like it but they seem to.

Possible alternative to rocky road - Malteser Buns as we call them in Northern Ireland where we do love a ‘traybake’ (or a ‘fridge cake’ as I believe they are known in the rest of the civilised world - we even had our own Classics thread dedicated to this very topic once…)

I'd pop to the co-op and buy some plain cupcakes. Maybe add some icing and pass them off as your own.
Or if you want to be a bit more creative with almost zero effort, why don't you get a Betty Crocker box and just add eggs or whatever

I always do rocky road, good idea to have fruit in there as it can seem a bit dense otherwise, raisins or glace cherries.

Brownies every time. They always sell out first and are dead easy to make, so I stopped bothering with anything else years ago x

Taming twins mal teaser fudge is a crowd pleaser and very simple. www.tamingtwins.com/malteser-fudge-recipe/

Chocolate biscuit cake is good, although I might avoid if a hot day/dropping off hours before the sale. v easy recipe

I buy these cake mixes but make them in individual paper cases. They often sell boxes of them 2 for £4 in Sainsburys.
www.bettycrocker.co.uk/products/chocolate-fudge-brownie-mix
I also buy tubs of chocolate fudge icing, melt it slightly in the microwave and pour a little of it over the cooled cakes.

Someone at our school makes bread sticks with the tops rolled in icing and covered in hundreds & thousands. Kids love them and they're cheap.