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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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my fave childhood bake was my grannys rag pudding she used a piece of net or lace to cook it and it was a soggy currants pudding which sounds awful but it really was delicious ! :)

I used to love making chocolate brownies. One time, it didn't work too well, so me and my sister squashed it all together to look like a poo. Then carefully placed it on a neighbour's doorstep. Who was my father's superior at work. Parents didn't see the funny side.

When DH was little, he would treat his family to chocolate yorkshire puddings, filled with whipped cream and sweets.

My favourite recipes from childhood are fairy cakes (a good basic staple) and pear flan. The war flan doesn't sound that exciting, but we had it as a treat for puddings and I would help mum make it, and later make it myself. It came from my Osborne first book of cooking with the little mini people in the pictures. I still have th same book and dig it out to make the flan for dd every now and again.

I have fond memories of licking the cake mixture bowl clean with my mum....until the salmonella issues then I wasn't allowed :(

My favourite recipes were fairy cakes , I loved making them and fighting with my sisters over licking the spoon. Decorating them was the best part.
My dc prefer something savoury they love making mini quiches and pizzas.

I used to love making jam tarts (not "ham treats", which my phone thought I was trying to type...) with my mum, and apple crumble with my dad.
When baking with my DCs, I tend to make fairy cakes, as they love decorating them. I see baking as a relaxing past time rather than a means of producing food. Maybe if I were better at making pastry, that wouldn't be the case, but almost all of my baking (a couple of times a month) is sweet rather than savoury, so is therefore more of a treat than the basis of a meal.

I love Christmas, so one of my favourite memories of baking with my mum is rolling out the Rosecrust pastry for mincepies and filling it with homemade mincemeat.
DD (3) and DS (1) both love cooking and baking DS sees it as his only chance to get near the knives and I hope that they will have some lovely memories in years to come.

I don't remember regularly baking anything as a kid but i do remember one day my mum making eclairs with me - I was totally in awe as even then i realised it was a tricky recipe and yet she baked it and managed to get them looking and tasting nice and i was totally inspired by that!

The bakes I used to 'help' my Mum with when I was a child were all recipes from my Grandmas, so a mixture of traditional Cumbrian and Yorkshire, eg. Grasmere Gingerbread, Rum Nicky, coffee buns, sultana butter squares, caramel shortbread, flapjack, dropscones, as well as mince pies, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding.

I still make some of those, but it's generally the traybakes as they're quicker! We often have dropscones for Sunday breakfast but the one I make most often with my girls is flapjack, I use my aunt's recipe. It's very quick and easy and not much washing up!

My mom was brilliant at making cakes (and eating them)
Her favourite recipes were apple strudel and a marble cake. I have the cake tin for the marble cake and it's huge! She used to bake a 6 egg recipe

I have lovely memories and am so thrilled that my daughter and I can bake like I used to with my mom

• she would be so proud of us.

My nana and i used to make coconut haystacks - a bit like this recipe www.food.com/recipe/coconut-haystack-cookies-344127 but with a hald glace cherry on the top. I can remember being infant school age whipping the eggs with a mechanical beater and making mounds by scooping the mix into an eggcup. Wonderful memories.

It is a very kidfriendly recipe so surprising that you don't see it v often anymore.

Good old flapjack, which my grandma and mum both made often (and called it 'crunch'). Now I make it with DS but we jazz it up with cocoa and dried fruits.

Similarly, my grandma's oat biscuit recipe, which was one of the first things I learned to make on my own:

75g self raising flour
75g porridge oats
75g sugar
75g butter
1 tbsp golden syrup
Splash of milk

Like making flapjack - combine/heat wet ingredients then add dry, mix and shape into biscuits before baking.

I remember the Bero cookery book (probably showing my age now). It was full of good old fashioned but failsafe recipes scones, Victoria sandwich, raspberry buns. My mum gave it to me when I was about nine and I've still got it and still use it!

Butterfly cakes, rock buns, raspberry jam buns, traffic light biscuits, coconut pyramids,my mum's Dundee cake for Sunday tea, soda bread for Sunday breakfast (I still make that).
Mostly we used a big, fat GH cookery book with black covers. I found one in a charity shop recently and remembered every picture.
And maypole cake - a Victoria sponge with a maypole made from a knitting needle and plaited wool for ribbons, and jellybabies dancing round it.

There are two biscuit recipes that I used to make with my mother. Both of them have antipodal connections. I'll dig the recipes out tomorrow.

Firstly, there were New Zealand Biscuits ( now known as ANZAC biscuits). They has butter, oats and golden syrup in them, and the others were Afghan biscuits. They were quite a buttery and crumbly not-too-sweet chocolate mixture that then had a splodge of rich chocolate icing on the top.

I'm getting all nostalgic now!

Rock cakes were always a firm favourite of mine. There was definitely far fewer cooked then there should have been as I kept eating the mixture

Also butterfly cakes, must make those with DS one of these days!

2oz sugar
2oz butter
1 egg
2 oz sr flour
1 t vanilla

Mix
Pour in 6 cupcake cases
Bake gas 4 12 mins
Eat

And repeat

I used to make my 'famous' apple cake - we never had anything like chocolate to add (that never lasted long) but we did have an apple tree. I've yet to make it with dc - he lacks the patience

I can still picture my mum making croissants at home, took so much time and made with so much care but all finished so quickly. And enjoyed making jam tarts with left over short crust pastry

My mum was awful at baking so we only made a couple of things together! Rice crispy cakes were my favourite thing to make with her! I try to do lots more with my children now - victoria sponge is one of my favourites!

We used to regularly make rice crispie or cornflake cakes.
Rather than melted chocolate we would use syrup, butter, cocoa powder, coconut and raisins. Yum, I can still smell the melting butter mixing with the cocoa powder when I close my eyes!

I would go in the kitchen and just make up or adapt recipes depending on what we had in. I tried to make a layered jelly, but didn't set the bottom layer before putting the next layer on. It looked like frogspawn!! My orange meringue pie was more successful.

has to be rice crispie cakes, they take me right back to my childhood and I love making them with my kids now - such an easy but fun activity :)

As a child I would visit a local tower with my nana and younger sister. To get to the tower you climb (or you can walk via the paths) among lots of greenery. We would always pick blackberries on our way up to the tower and make a blackberry pie when we returned home. We'd always have lots of blackberries left over as there were always so many so we'd make smoothies or jam with the remaining blackberries. I have visited the same place with my children a handful of times and picked blackberries ourselves to make the pie, although I can't make it anywhere near as good as my nana's blackberry pie! But my children still love it. We've also made jam tarts with the blackberries too.

My top two favourite recipes from my childhood are: chocolate crispy cakes made with my mum and butterfly fairy cakes baked at my Gran's house. I used to stay at my Gran's house every Saturday while my mum was at work and the treat I always looked forwards to was baking. My job was the mixing/creaming for the topping and sticking the "butterfly wings" on. The bit I always looked forward to was licking the mixture out of the bowl and spoon at the end.

My mum was a bit more pressed for time so her favourite thing to make with us was chocolate crispy cakes or if she was being a bit fancy, mars bar crispy cake. No real baking required- just melting chocolate and mixing ingredients but still great fun.

I've carried on the tradition with my kids- we still love making crispy cakes and when we have time, butterfly fairy cakes. The smell of the cakes cooking takes me back to the tiny kitchen in a little terraced house and my lovely Gran. Whenever I see a crispy cake it takes me back to the 80's watching Crackerjack, eating them on the settee after tea. Often, it's my mum now doing the baking with them too so the tradition has definitely carried on.