Need to make biscuits/buns/cake for school fair on Saturday - help!

[Hulababy]

I don't bake! I love cooking, but baking just isn't my thing.

However DD came home from school yesterday with a appaper plate with a note attached saying to ill it with homemade cakes, biscuits or buns and take back into school either Friday or Sat morning for Saturday's school fayre.

Any simple, fool proof recipes?

I made some ginger biscuits the other day: you get tons and tons from the one recipe, if you are interested? I can give you recipes for just about anything you want if you say what that is: I am a great baker!

This is great and so fun to do with children

4oz of light brown sugar
4oz of butter
1 egg
4oz of peanut butter
half teaspoon baking powder
5oz of self raising flour
rice crispys

cream sugar and butter - add egg
add peanut butter, flour and baking powder.

Take heaped teaspoon og dought, roll into a ball and then flaten on rice crispys (coating them all over).

Makes about 20

Cook for 20 at 180

Gingerbread Biscuits

350g plain flour

2 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

100g butter or margarine

175g soft light brown sugar

1 egg

4 tbsp golden syrup or maple syrup

Large biscuit cutters. It says the recipe makes about 20 but I used a large teddy bear cutter and a smaller bat cutter and got an entire tin full of biscuits!

1. Grease baking sheets and set oven to 190 C (GM 5)

1. Sift flour, ginger and bicarb into a bowl. Add butter.

1. Rub butter into flour etc with finger tips until it resembles breadcrumbs.

4.Stir in sugar. Break egg into bowl and beat and add syrup to egg (gloopy!)

1. Add eggy mixture to flour etc and mix together with metal spoon.

1. Sprinkle surface with flour and knead dough until it is smooth.

1. Cut dough in half and roll out until about 5mm thick.

1. Cut shapes and place on baking sheet - they spread a bit so keep a good space between them.

1. Bake for 12-15 mins until golden brown.

10. Cool on a wire rack.

hula - happy tp help friday after school flapjack is very very easy! or can bring DH's fab cookie recipe.

these with cream cheese frosting on them

fabulous and sooooooooooo easy

flapjacks? i keep making them this week. may try your gingerbread too dg

Thanks for ideas. Will see what I can manage from this on Friday night!

It is really nice SEA, but not very spicy. Or should I say really nice and not too spicy as I don't like spicy food. But be warned, if you want them spicy, I think you need to put in more ginger than in the recipe.

mmm will buy some ginger, like it quite strong

hula - DH says he will let you have his families secret cookie recipe on friday night and might even cook and make them for you!

WWB's Dorset Apple Cake is pretty foolproof, it can even be lumpy !