Best cakes/biscuits for cake bake which are easy to carry to school

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Have a cake bake on Friday and not sure what it is best to make. Saw a thread recently which said best selling items were iced cupcakes and rocky road biscuits. Was wondering what you could make which would be easy to carry to the school - surely iced cakes are a bit messy. Was thinking about making biscuits and putting smarties on the top. Would this work or would the smarties just melt as you'd have to put them on when the biscuits were still soft/warm? TIA

Flapjacks?

rice krispie cakes?

Thanks missorinoco and crystalglasses. Hadn't thought of either of those. Any more suggestions? TIA

I like the Smarties idea. Wait til the cookies are cold, then put a wee bit of icing sugar ( mixed with water ) on the back of each Smartie to stick it on.

And M and Ms are better as

a) they're not Nestle
b) the colours are much brighter

Thanks Taffetas. I do like the sound of that as well.

my mum used to make australian crunch - was yummy. made with coconut and cornflakes, really nice, can post the recipe if you like?

That would be great. Thanks storm.

its on the bero website but wont let me link it so heres a c&p job

225 g (8 oz) margarine
150 g (5 oz) caster sugar
75 g (3 oz) desiccated coconut
75 g (3 oz) crushed Cornflakes
1 x 15 ml spoon (1 tbsp) cocoa powder, sieved
150 g (5 oz) Be-Ro Self Raising Flour
100 g (4 oz) chocolate melted (optional) (not optional in our house

1 Heat oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. Grease a Swiss roll tin 31 x 21 cm (12½ x 8 inch).
2 Melt the margarine over a low heat.
3 Stir in the sugar, coconut, cornflakes, cocoa and flour. Mix well.
4 Turn into the tin and level with a knife. Bake for 20 minutes.
5 When almost cold cut into squares or triangles.
6 Cover with melted chocolate if wished.

Yum. That sounds gorgeous storm - I think I'd have to use butter instead of marg, but will def give it a go

its so good

i use butter too

and has to be galaxy choc on top

storm - its in the oven for DD to take to school tomorrow!

Do you put the melted choc on once its cool but before cutting? Do you use dark or milk choc?

it says to do it after cutting but i dont i wait until its cool then cover with the choc and cut when the choc is set with a very sharp knife

i always use galaxy milk choc

Thanks. I only have Cadbury Fruit and Nut and Lindt 70 pc in! So will melt both together and fish out the fruit and nuts. [cooks treat]

maybe it would be nice with the fruit and nuts

Yum. A big hit! Thanks. DH scoffed the fished out chocolatey fruit and nuts once they'd reset in the fridge. Everyone happy.

Arghh, you've just reminded me that I've promised to bring a cake/biscuits for a cake sale at nursery tomorrow. I'd completely forgotten.

I was going to do a big cake (maybe coffee and walnut or lemon drizzle) but now thinking cookies are the way to go. I second sticking smarties on with a bit of icing sugar.

thats great taffetas, i havent made any in ages, may do some this weekend!

I made the Nigella fairy cakes and Nigel Slater Soft Chocolate Cookies yesterday. I tried the icing sugar with water to stick the smarties on but didn't seem to work with the smarties as they're not flat - but what did work was using this mixture on the fairy cakes and sprinkling some edible glitter. I tried putting smarties in the cookies before they went into the oven and this seems to have worked fine. Thanks again everyone.