Snacks

[christmashope]

Can anyone help me?? I am looking for some recipes for nice biscuits/cookies/flap jack type of things that can be made then frozen these are for putting In my sons packed lunch box

Many thanks in advance

Most cookies will freeze OK once cooked, as will fairy cakes, with butter icing if you must. Cook, cool, open freeze, and then pack up when hard.

Not sure flapjack will work?

You can make biscuit mix and freeze then cook but not freeze after baking. Why would you want to freeze flapjacks? These have such a high sugar content that they will keep.

Refer to BBC website for recipes.

You could make nigella's lunch trays from 'nigella express'. They are sort of cereal bars. Nigella makes them in balls but I do it in a silicone cake tin. Slice it up and wrap the portions individually. They keep in the fridge for ages and ages.

Hate to disagree, but you can freeze cooked biscuits.
We frequently have something similar to these in the freezer - tho our recipe just has an egg yolk in. I've never tried this recipe, but it looks about right.

www.nigella.com/recipes/view/lunchbox-treats-86

Something that does freeze really well is drop scones / scotch pancakes. I used to make them for breakfast at weekends, and freeze the ones I had hidden from DC leftovers individually in 'value' food bags (the 50p a roll ones) and get them out for DD's lunches.

I agree with scotch pancakes, we call them piklets in NZ and my kids love them. I do a triple batch on a weekend morning for breakfast with golden syrup and then freeze in lots of 2 clingfilm'd and take them out the nigh before for snacks etc. We are happy to eat them without any toppings on but they are really really good with a smear of nutella!!!

Muffins also freeze well, if a batch is destined for the freezer I do them in silicone muffin cases not paper cases, make them slightly under size so they dont 'mountain' too much and makes them easier to get 6 in a small snap lock bag, then its easy to store 2 x bags of 6 on top of each other in the freezer. Our favourite flavour is banana chocolate chip :)