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Cake & Candy Stall.....HELP!!!

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bounty007 · 28/10/2010 12:39

Our Toddler group is holding the cake & candy stall at the local Christmas Fayre...I have been told I must make lots of cakes etc...Shock anyone have any fool proof quick impressive recipes.....

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tb · 28/10/2010 13:20

Just cakes, or also sweets?

tb · 28/10/2010 15:47

How about millionaire's shortbread, cornflake crispy cakes, toffee and peppermint creams?

Toffee
75g butter
2 large tbsp golden syrup(I mean the serving kind not the cereal kind of tablespoon)
150g granulated sugar
1 tin condensed milk

Grease and line 7"x7" tin

Put a ramekin of cold water in the fridge.

Warm sugar, syrup and butter over gentle heat until all the sugar has dissolved.
Add condensed milk. Bring to the boil, stirring all the time.
Boil until a little dropped into very cold water (that's why ramekin is in the fridge), forms a hard ball - like the finished toffee.
It will be dark brown in colour - in between plain and milk choc.
Pour into tin, mark into squares and leave to set.
Cut into squares and wrap in either cellophane or greaseproof paper, or very posh special toffee wrappers.
The local dentists will love you for this.

Peppermint creams - foolproof method
55g butter
2 tbsp milk
480g sifted icing sugar
1 tsp peppermint essence
Green food colouring if required.

Warm milk with butter until butter has just melted.
Add icing sugar and peppermint essence and a couple of drops of food colouring if used. Mix until smooth.
Roll out on board on which you've sifted a little icing sugar to stop it sticking. Cut into circles with small cutter.
Leave on wire rack until set and hard.
If you like, once they are set, you can dip or half-dip in plain choc.

If you're lucky, you'll have just enough time to do a second rolling out from all the bits.

Haven't got recipe for shortbread just off the top of my head.

bounty007 · 28/10/2010 18:28

Wow! Thank you for these tb .Will have a crack at both...any other ideas would be good, as I have been told to make lots of different things and am hopeless...

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tb · 28/10/2010 19:58

Found toffee shortbread recipe - aka as millionaire's shortbread

Toffee Shortbread - think it's enough for 10"x7" tin

Shortbread
240g sugar
120g butter
300g flour

Beat butter and sugar, add flour. Press into greased tin and cook at gas mk % for 20 mins

Caramel layer
240g butter
240g sugar
4 tbsp golden syrup
tin condensed milk

Heat butter, sugar and syrup until sugar dissolved.
Add condensed milk.
Cook until toffee coloured and thick.
Allow to cool a little.
Pour over shortbread and leave to cool and set a little.

Melt 240g chocolate - I would use plain and pour over caramel. You could always put lines of white choc over and then feather them with a skewer or cocktail stick or marble white choc through to make it look all fancy.

Sorry, can't remember cornflake crispy recipe, just that it was 7 tablespoons of cornflakes.

taffetawitchescat · 28/10/2010 21:12

cake pops are great fun. I made some for the school fete this summer and they went down a storm.

lots of clips on youtube show you how to make them, but essentially you can buy cheap madeira cake, mix with buttercream, freeze with a lolly stick and then dip in melted white choc buttons, coloured according to your whim. Use coloured dust though not liquid food colouring. Then sprinkles, white choc stars, whatever whilst the choc hasn't yet set.

You get the added satisfaction that with one product you have covered both cake and candy angles. Grin

bounty007 · 29/10/2010 08:40

cheers tb

taffetawitchescat thanks for the link, I'm not very good at arty things so they would probably be a disaster...but as i must improve I will give them a try once Ive got this mad bakeathon done!

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twinklytoes · 29/10/2010 22:41

white choc and cranberry fudge this is fab. have subsituted for dark choc and raisins too.

mars lemon drizzle cake (in recipe section on mn)is very easy and always turns out well. I make 2 x 2lb loaf tin cakes from it. If you buy those paper liners then they'll look fab and easy to package to sell.

can you make fairy cakes? if you can make piggy faces - pink or white glace icing smoothered over the top. chuck on an opposite colour marshmallow for a nose, choc chips for eyes and two white cho buttons for ears.

easy marshmallow one - melt choc, just cooking choc. place a little in bottom of a petit four case, chuck a marshmallow on top pour a little choc over the top (just enough that it will hold the smartie in place when set) and place a smartie on the top. I can get about 100 out of five packs of marshmallows and 2 x 500g bars of choc. our local soft play sells these at 30p each but at 10p theres still profit.

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