Easy cake recipes please.

[littlerach]

I have "volunteered" to bake a couple of cakes fo r a fundraiser at pre school but have very little time that week.
So...I either need very easy recipes that take little time to prepare, or ones that can be frozen.
Also, I have to wrap them in clingfilm/cellphane so can't have too much icing etc on the top.

Amny ideas??

FMV's Fruity squares (makes around 9 squares, just double ingredients and use bigger tim to make more.)

100g SR flour
100g soft butter/marge
100g caster sugar
2 eggs beaten
chopped glace cherries, and/or raisins, apricot etc depending on how 'healthy' you want it

beat sugar and butter together til soft. add alternate beaten egg and sifted flour. add fruit. pour into lined square cake tin, sprinkle top with a little sugar and bake 180 degrees for around 15 to 20 mins, til lightly golden and firm to touch. freezes well.

Or, omit fruit, and when cooked, cut into 'sandwich' and fill with rasp jam and buttercream before cutting into squares.

do rice crispy cakes - the kids love em

Delia recipe and doesn't take long at all. Sponge cake.

6oz self-raising flour
1 rounded teaspoon baking powder
3 large eggs
6oz caster sugar
6oz butter, very soft (room temperature)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix butter and sugar together in a bowl
Add the eggs
Gradually sieve in flour/baking powder and beat to get good consistency
Add vanilla extract and mix

Split between two baking tins (8") and bake in oven 170C (325F) for 20 mins or until brown on top and cooked in middle (use wooden skewer to test - if cooked it will come out 'clean', ie: no cake mixture stuck to it).

For the filling:
Raspberries, or strawbs or bluebs or anything you like
1 x 250g tub mascarpone cheese
1 x 200ml tub fromage frais
1 x level tbsp caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix mascarpone and fromage frais together, add sugar and vanilla extract.

Slather raspberry or strawberry jam onto one side of each cake, slather the filling on top of the jam, arrange the raspbs in a pretty pattern on one cake, put the other cake on top and sandwich together. To finish, lightly dust (use a tea strainer) with icing sugar.

fruit cake

8oz s/r flour
4oz butter
8oz mixed fuit
4oz sugar
mixed spice
1 egg made up to 1/4 pint with milk and water

mix flour and butter til like breadcrumbs, then add sugar, fruit, mixed spice and egg mixture. Mix well. Pour into a greased 2lb loaf tin and bake for approx 1hr(or til cooked) on gas mark 4. This cake is better made the day before, and keeps very well.

Flapjacks are easy and they would cut and wrap without probs:

150g butter
75g sugar
3 tbsp golden syrup
300g oats

Melt the first 3, mix in the oats, (add raisins, choc chips, whatever if wanted,) bake for 20 mins or so at gas 4.

Thank you.

They have to be whole cakes, ni to be cut up to sell, and are for adults to buy and take home.

Any more?

Tea Loaf

225g raisins
225g sultanas
225g currants
225g demerara sugar

soak it all in 275ml of hot tea like earl grey or lapsang overnight (I leave the leaves to soak for 10 minutes then add the lot - don't strain it first)

then in the morning you only have to add 1 large beaten egg and 450g self raising flour

Divide it into 2 loaf tins (greased all over and lined on the bottom) and cook for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours in middle of oven 170c or gas 3

you can also add 110g candied peel and 110g pecan nuts

Apple & Sultana Cake

Serves 8-10

8oz/225g chopped cooking apples
8oz/225g sultanas
8 fl oz/200ml milk
6oz/170g soft brown sugar
10oz/285g plain flour
6oz/170g butter
¾ oz/20g baking powder
2 tsp mixed spice
1 large free range egg, beaten
1oz/30g Demerara sugar

Heat the oven to 170°C/350°F/gas mark 4.

Mix together then apples, sultanas, milk and soft brown sugar.

In a separate bowl, rub together the flour, butter, baking powder and mixed spice. Combine the two. Add the beaten egg and mix well. If necessary, add more milk until you achieve a dropping consistency.

Scrape into a greased, lined 9in/22cm cake tin (I use 2 loaf tins as there?s a lot of mixture) and sprinkle over the Demerara sugar.

Bake for 1 hour (less in 2 tins) or until risen and golden, and a skewer comes out clean.