Baking! Muffins, cakes, biscuits

Ok, fail proof recipes? I'm not the best baker, and every time I google for a recipe, it seems to flop big time!

Or even ideas for flavours of muffins? I'm wanting to freeze some muffins for when baby comes, but also need to start making some stuff for DH's lunches!

So slices? what flavours? recipes if you've got them
Muffins? Cakes? Biscuits? what else can I make for his lunches or to freeze?

A hit in my house is Cocoa cake & my spin off banana cake.

Banana Cake
3 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
2 cups sugar (probably could use less sugar cause of bananas)
1 tsp baking soda
3 ripe bananas
½ cup cooking oil (Sunfield Salad oil is nice)
1 1/2 cups water

1. Sift dry ingredients through twice.
2. Add liquids and mix well.
3. Bake at 170°C in a 20-22 cm round greased tin for 55 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. I find this does one standard ring tin & the left over in one loaf tin.
Variations:
36 mini muffins (bake for 10-15 minutes)
18 standard muffins (bake for 20 minutes)

Chocolate Cake (Alias "Cocoa Cake")
3 cups flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
6 Tbsp cocoa
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
½ cup cooking oil
2 cups water

1. Sift dry ingredients through twice.
2. Add liquids and mix well.
3. Bake at 170°C in a 20-22 cm round greased tin for 55 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. I find this does one standard ring tin & the left over in one loaf tin.
Variations:
36 mini muffins (bake for 10-15 minutes)
18 standard muffins (bake for 20 minutes)

These keep really well in the cupboard all week. We don't bother icing them, if I take one out somewhere I dust it with icing sugar instead. You have to sift twice otherwise they don't work as well. Any chocolate cake you buy after eating this one will be inferior DH LOVES them for work.

For some unknown reason I can't seem to make a decent muffin, so have been resorting to making banana cake in muffin tins. They always come out perfectly and everyone in our house loves them - especially iced with chocolate icing

There is a yummy slice called Chinese Chew that my Mum used to make when i was a kid. It is in the older Edmonds books. Full of fruit and oats and very yum!! Will see if I can dig out the recipe if anybody wants it   I still make this at least once a fortnight in our house.

I second the Cocoa cake recipe that AandC's mum posted. Fantastic recipe especially if you have kids with allergies and it makes tons of muffins! You can also take out the cocoa and add in banana to make a pretty good banana muffin

My fave cake is a mayo choc cake that was posted on here ages ago... i've copied it here exactly as i was told. its the recipe i use for the kids birthday cakes and it is soo yum!

2 cups Flour, 1 cup sugar, 3 tbsp. cocoa, 1 cup mayo (no miracle whip, we use Best Foods) 1 cup warm water, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1tsp vanilla.
Grease pan and pour batter into it. Bake at 180 degrees celsius or 350 fahrenheit for 35-45 minutes.

Alot of the baking recipes that are on Good Morning are great, I really like the Chewy Muesli Slice and there was a Chocolate Cupcake made by Tamara Jane last Easter but I can't find the link.

I am going to try the Gingerbread loaf as well

Yum! Some cool recipes in here. I just bought a cake tin so looking forward to using that

Mum gave me a Chelsea quick and easy recipe book, full of muffins,cakes,slices,loafs etc so I'm gonna go nuts trying them. They all look so easy, not too many ingrediants and Mum said shes never had a recipe fail out of there yet! YAY just what I need Hopefully my skills will slowly get better haha!

Oooh yay more easy recipes!

I'm gonna make a butter cake, a chocolate cake, and a slice out of my book.

I can't really cook either, but I'm getting there! (I don't burn potatoes anymore.. I'm improving!!!)

xXELAx wrote: Mum2Sam - wopuld love that recipe! Here is a fool proof slice. 1 king size bar of chocolate (any flavour - even black forest, or fruit n nut etc...) 1 tin condensed milk 1 packet superwines chrushed (use the food processor if you have one) 1 tablespoon of cocoa Optional: chopped fruit or nuts. Melt n mix it all together and press into a greased slice pan. Cool, set and then eat but warning it is very veerry yummy!

I do that one , but I put in coconut and dried apricots
or cut up choc mint biscuits, its really really goooood
that choc one sounds nice too , think i'll have to try it !