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Most people have fond memories of when they were younger, baking with their families during wet weekends or holidays, getting messy, licking the spoon and waiting impatiently for the bakes to come out of the oven. So which bakes transport you back to your childhood? What are your top 1-2 favourite baking recipes from your childhood? What part of these bakes makes you feel most nostalgic? Have you introduced your children to these bakes?

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I probably feel the most nostalgia for Rice Krispies Squares, though they are no bake (just melt the marshmallows). I haven't made them with my DC but when have made the chocolate version.

My nanas luscious lemon cake, and the amazing coffee walnut cake my mums friend used to make.

My favourite childhood bake was what my mum called 'freezer cake' which doesn't sound very nice, but it was essentially a bit like Rocky Road.

It involved melted chocolate and butter mixed with crushed digestives and raisins plus any other ingredients you wanted. The mixture was pressed into a sandwich tin and then popped in the freezer (hence the name). It was cut into squares - although I do remember that it was quite hard to cut if you were over-enthusiastic about pressing it into the tin, or were impatient and tried to cut it whilst it was still frozen!

Fairy cakes with butter icing and 'wings' on top with my nan when I was little. Although DD isn't even quite 2 yet she already loves baking - and sampling the goods! She's an expert at 'quality control'

I used to bake a lot with my mum (and still do for birthdays, even though I'm 42!). We still have my ladybird 'Cooking with Mother' book, and we still use my great grans hand written recipes. I've started my own recipe file, so that my children can have that one day.

I remember making lots of fairy cakes, with icing and sprinkles, and butterfly cakes with buttercream and wings. I've made these too now with my children, and they bake with Nana too, its lovely that they enjoy the same things I enjoyed in my childhood especially licking the bowl

I also remember a disastrous attempt at coconut pyramids which ended up more biscuit like and the time the rock cake dough was so hard it broke the wooden spoon

my nan used to make the most fantastic bread pudding and always made it for me as a child and when i grew up. She used to make it to cheer me up and it was sugary and sweet really delicious.
i made pineapple upside down cake at school and it turned out surprisingly well as i am not a good cook! i have since made it for my children but i dont think they are that impressed

My mum used to make the best Bread and Butter pudding, flapjacks and date slices. She also made the best puff pastry cheese and marmite thing.

I used to enjoy baking fairy cakes (I still call them this, so old-fashioned) and butterfly cakes.

Now I love baking with my own children.

Rice crispy Mars slices. Butter, Mars bars and rice crispies. Amazing but very fattening now I'm older!!!

I used to love making "thumbprint" cakes....a bit like a rock cake but without the fruit, then poke a hole in it and a small blob of jam, then bake. I have never made them with my children...they don't like jam in cakes!
Also boiling cans of condensed milk for the caramel part of millionaires shortbread.....and scoffing loads before it made it to the top of the shortbread layer.....can't believe I got away with so few fillings in my teeth!

A chocolate hedgehog cake with chocolate button spikes - yum!

My mum used to make wonderful chocolate butterfly buns and my gran made a rice cake which was fabulous. I haven't yet introduced my ds to the recipes as he's only 17 months but I am a very keen baker and am so looking forward to introducing him to baking and cooking.

First recipe I remember being taught was chocolate cornflake cakes, very easy and simple. I've made it with my children several times now.

It has to be bread pudding. My nan used to make it every couple of weeks growing up and I now make it every so often for my little boy. Everything about it, the taste and smell, just feels homely and reminds me of those weekends spent in the kitchen with my nan.

I remember making cherry buns with my Gran which were a bit like rock cakes but with cherries. Every time I make pastry she comes to mind as it seemed to be the one thing she was always doing at the kitchen table. She also made delicious coconut ice and fudge for gifts at Christmas.

I remember making pastry for mum for the lemon meringue pies that used to come in a packet. And wisking the egg whites until you could tip the bowl up over your head.

I'm sure we also made our share of Krispy cakes too.

My mum used to make a lovely rubbed in fruit cake - the sort that got better and better, the longer you kept it. I think it might have been n old Marguerite Patten recipe from a book that has long since disintegrated.

I wrote down the recipe to take to university with me and did make it a few times, but have lost it, somewhere down the line.

I remember making birds nest buns every Easter, we'd melt the chocolate in a bowl and then stir into shredded wheat and decorate with mini eggs. So simple but a find childhood memory

Chocolate rice crispie cakes - more a melt and mix than proper baking but very tasty and little jam tarts. I used to love helping to make the pastry for the tarts - especially rubbing the butter and the flour together!

I remember that ladybird cookbook! Sadly no idea what happened to it.
My mum used to make chocolate caramel shortbread that was mouthwatering. Despite my best efforts I can't recreate it, the recipe is long lost, so my children live in ignorance.

My gran was a fantastic baker she made lovely empire biscuits, chocolate cake and apple tarts I miss her very much. Every year she would make our birthdays cakes

Welsh cakes for me. One day, mum burnt a batch and I discovered I loved those even more, so I always burn a few now. YUM!

Most favourite bake from childhood was at Christmas time - mince pies!! Helping my mum roll the pastry and stirring in the mincemeat fillings. We used to make all sorts of toppings to sit on top like berries and holly or make mini snowmen from icing. We used to make very mini mince pies and they were the best, especially scattered with icing powder on top! So Christmas is always nostalgic for me when I smell mince pies.

We had a Mr Men cookbook and I loved the coconut mountains and my Mum made an amazing millionaires shortbread which we called Twix cake.

Using the left over pastry from whatever mum was making to make jam tarts or cheese straws. Also remember helping to make tractor cakes for Birthdays, basically a rectangle and square covered in icing with flakes round the edge and wagon wheels for the wheels.

My grandmas apple crumble. What I wouldn't give to go back and be interested in the recipe while I had the chance.