please can you give me ideas for what to bake for the school summer fund-raising type day?

[Aefondkiss]

preferably nothing too complicated, I am not great at baking cakes, but I would like something I could do with my dd too.

tia.

I was going to do a pavlova on the grounds that the decorating bit is simple and the meringue bit isn't too complicated. Your DD could stick strawberries on the top.

Or make a plain Victoria sponge and decorate with cream and strawbs.

Biscuits you can make the dough and DD can help do the shapes with a cutter - they can be iced or if flavored (i.e.ginger) left plain. You can transport them in a tin. They can be made in advance (generally store well for two weeks in an airtight container.

You can always stick them together with butter cream or chocolate if you want to be different.

Avoid anything sticky (difficult to handle on the stall and package.

I avoid chocolate on things as well because although its lovely it can melt and everything can stick together on a hot day.

no fear of melting in the chilly Scottish summer, though if I make nice heavy cakes they won't get blown away

I am a bit scared of making meringue, though I did see a lovely/complicated recipe for a gooseberry meringue pie in the paper the other day.

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What about the famous Malteser tiffin? It's much loved in this house and is great for kids to help with (if you don't mind chocolatey mess). Will try and do a link to a previous thread for the recipe

malteser tiffin

Cupcakes as easy for kids to eat.

I'm doing mateser tiffin; also snickers muffind (Nigella recipe), apple pie, cherry pie and something else (independence day theme)

I have to doloads as on PA but anything will do- you could just buy a flan case and fill nicely

Yogurt pot cakes, or 1-2-3 cake. We did it with DD's class this morning and it's very easy.
Tip a pot of yogurt, pref plain or caramel flavour, into a bowl and use the same pot to measure out a pot of vegetable oil. Wash and dry the pot, then add two pots of caster sugar and three of SR flour, then three eggs. Mix til smooth and bake at 160.

Gingerbread men. Very DD-helping compatible.

yes please northender, just had a look at recipe section, might try some of the recipes there.

gingerbread men, I even have a cutter for that, see, I need to be inspired!

thanks for the ideas, I am off to get dd from school.

bbl.

marslady's lemon drizzle cake is so easy to make and scrumptious.

Brownies always go down well (you can leave out the nuts).

Fifteens are also very easy and popular.

Flapjack or rocky road.

mars bar cake.

what are fifteens?... any links to the perfect recipe?

I might make a lemon drizzle cake but it will be to my mum's recipe, because it involves less ingredients than mar's one and I know I can manage not to mess it up.

oh I have a recipe for rocky road.

better get started with the baking then

Skinny Tea Loaf from the recipe section is a winner with us. Kids love it and it is so easy to make. Soak fruit overnight, stir in rest of stuff, bake. Managed to make and eat four of them (family helping) in about 48 hours.

Fifteens. Right here on mn! You can add some chopped walnuts if you like them. I prefer them to glace cherries.

cheers Aero, I like the sound of that recipe.

just made a heap of ginger (well all spice because I didn't have ground ginger ) bread men/bears, now need to ice/decorate them... I am not sure how but that is part of the fun.

Loaf style cakes (i.e. banana cakes, gingerbread etc) tend to sell better than individual cakes on the cake stall....there is a banana cake recipe I found on here that I am just about to cook for our summer fayre tomorrow. Give me a minute and I'll find it

this is the recipe I use, helenmc's post 2nd from bottom

cheers hmc, I just made a really disastrous chocolate cake, but I am really crap at baking, I have two eggs left so I might have a go at the banana loaf.

I make a huge batch of iced fairy cakes, because they make more money selling individual pieces than a large cake.

250g caster sugar
250g stork margarine
1teaspoon vanilla extract
4 large eggs
250g self raising flour

Cream together the sugar and marge until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and eggs one at a time. Sift and fold in the flour. If you use traditional fairy cake cases (rather then large muffin cases) and put a teaspoon in each, you can make four dozen cakes, with a decent space to fill with icing. Bake at 190 C for 10-15 minutes.

Buy a packet of Royal Icing Sugar to ice them with, this gives a nice solid top to decorate.