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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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Millionaires shortbread. My aunt used to make it, yum yum. And jam tarts.

Coconut pyramids stuck on to rice paper, a bit like macaroons.

We called it praline but I think most people would call it fridge cake - cocoa, golden syrup, butter & crushed digestives smooshed into a dish & put in the fridge to set. Once hard we'd pour glace icing over it & wait impatiently for that to solidify enough for it to be cut & eaten. Utterly divine! I made some for the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations because someone up the road was hosting a bit of a street party. Only trouble was that it was a warm day & my beloved praline melted & was rejected by most people... That meant I got to bring it all home again - such a hardship!

I loved making traybakes as a youngster and still do with my child as they are no bake so safer for little helpers to be involved.

Amaretto rocky road goes down well where lots of melted chocolate (300g) is mixed with some crunched up amaretto biscuits (100g), marshmallows (45g) and broken up digestives (60g). Pour into a greased baking tray and leave to set before slicing.

Mars Bar cake is an all time favourite where 3 mars bars are melted with 1 tbsp margarine and 1 tbsp golden syrup. Around 150g rice crispies are added and the mixture is pressed into a baking tray then topped with melted chocolate.

German Christmas biscuits, my mum made massive batches every year, about 8 different sorts! Lots of spices, melted chocolate, orange peel etc so they smell lovely baking. Haven't made them with my children yet, as she still gives us loads of bags of them to take home every time we go for Christmas!

Cheese straws!!!!! My grandmother and I used to make a 'proper' afternoon tea tableful together whenever I used to go up to her house for visiting...my favourites were cheese straws {pastry recipe with lots of grated cheese, rolled up like a Swiss roll and cut into pinwheels} and her amazing apple pie {lots of cloves, lots}

Jam tarts and butterfly cakes were my mums favourite and my auntie would bring rock cakes and they really were as hard as rocks we all still ate them as she made really lovely scones and didn't want to upset her. My dad surprised us one sunday with a really lovely chocolate cake it was the best cake I had tasted

Rice Krispie cubes. I didn't actually like them that much, but I liked making them, and licking the bowl. So simple and quick.

^Rick Krispie Chocolate cubes, that should read. You know the things!

These all sound delicious. We'd love the actual recipes if you have them too.

oh scones! I loved scones as a child, particularly being allowed to cut out the circles.

And we also did the fairy cakes where you cut the top off, put in some squirty cream then cut the top in half and stick on as wings.

oh, just seen you're after recipes! My mum's scones one:

250g SR flour
25g caster sugar
50g butter
50g raisins + extra for small child to eat...
1 egg
3ish tablespoons of milk

put flour and sugar in bowl, rub in butter. Mix in raisins. Beat the egg in another bowl then add in bit by bit (mixing with a knife), add the milk bit by bit to get a soft dough that's not too sticky.

Put more flour on board and roll out to about 2cm thickness and cut out circles with round pastry cutters, or if your mum can't find them, the lid of the nescafe jar (which is in easy reach as you have out on show in the 80s to show you are a bit classier than your friends serving the cheaper 'own brand' coffee - the idea of real coffee with ground beans would be mind blowing and possibly a bit too 'continential' for the likes of us...).

Not baking, but I have fond memories of making peppermint creams and coconut ice as a young child.
When I was older I started baking fairy cakes and chocolate sponge cakes with my mum, but my favourite baking memory is learning to bake a rich fruit cake for Christmas with my grandad, then using the same recipe with my mum the year after.
DD1 loves baking, particularly chocolate fairy cakes, chocolate smartie cake and cut-out biscuits.

Fond memories of licking spoon, whisk, spatula and bowl. There was always enough cake mix left on enough tools for all of us to lick.

Then, when I started baking by myself at about 10yo, I could never understand how mum - a very frugal cook, who even extracted the last drop of egg white by wiping inside the shell with her finger - could leave so much cake mix behind on the bowl and tools. It was so easy to scrape the bowl clean with the spatula, and get every drop into the cake tin.

It was only when I started baking with my own dc that the penny dropped, and I realised that my mum had deliberately been leaving a lot of cake mix in the bowl and on the tools!

Gran's mars bar cake .
Mix 3 melted mars bars, 3 ounces butter, 3 ounces rice crispies.

Squash into tin.
Top with melted choc
Place in fridge to set.

Cheese, onion and potato pie followed by apple crumble, all home made alongside my grandmother and all subsequently still made and eaten just now by myself and my eldest daughter.

I remember my grandmother piling on the lashes of butter and milk into the potatoes to make them as fluffy and creamy as she could and then finishing off the pie by grating cheese over the top of it and placing sliced tomatoes onto then finally grilling for a few minutes for that perfect crispy topping... mouth watering even to this day...

My favourite was Gypsy tart. My nan used to be a school cook and would always make a massive tray of this when we would visit her house. It was fab. It smelt delicious and I can still feel the sugar from her sweet pastry crunching into my mouth as I bit into the smooth topping. I can make it now without my nan but I would give anything to have another slice of hers.

My other nan would make me marzipan sweets. We would spend ages colouring marzipan with food dye then making them into strawberries or bananas etc. We used to put cloves in the top of the apples to make them look real. I have suggested doing this with my kids but they both dislike marzipan. Instead I have to make regular cakes with them and let them lick the creamed sugar and butter from the spoon. :)

Chocolate fairy cake buns were my favourite. I used to bake huge batches of them (although not always as fairys!) for Guide cake sales. Yes, I have baked these with my children, although with all sorts of other cakes, muffins, biscuits etc.

I used to make "butterfly fairycakes" with my Mum. We made fairy cakes, cut the top off, covered base with cream and then cut the top in half and stuck them in the cream so it looked like butterfly wings. Sometimes we'd grate chocolate on top.

Apple crumble. I remember standing on a dining chair in the kitchen, up to my elbows in flour and butter and then sprinkling the sugar on top. We have done this a couple of times now with DD. She always looks a little unsure to start with, but it's impossible to prise the bowl off her after 5 minutes! She's like her dad and likes it with custard. Mummy prefers ice cream

My mum used to make butterfly cakes with buttercream and sponge puddings. These remind me of my childhood.

My Mum's toffee fingers and shortbread are my favourite recipes from my childhood, and even though my Mum doesn't really like to cook anymore she stills make her wonderful shortbread, and the smell is amazing and takes me right back. My sons now love it too, so the memories will be with them as well.

Melting moments made with the recipe from the Bero book. I can taste them now.

Sunday tea was always cakes, sandwiches and fruit and jelly in our house. Mum always made all the cakes on Sunday morning and although I loved helping and eating the butterfly fairy cakes it was the cherry fruit scones that I liked best.