Baked Yummies!

Cornbread Recipe

1 cup or 340g of Cornmeal / cornflour

3/4 cup or 225g of flour

1 tablespoon of Baking soda

1/4 teaspoon of salt

2 large eggs

1 1/2 cups / 192g of butter milk (Cooled melted butter in milk, though you may be able to buy it ready made )

equally just use a nice soft baking butter like stork for baking!)

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees or 200 in a fan oven and lightly grease a baking tin. If you have a square tray they work well.

Step 2

Mix all the dry ingredients together into a bowl, including the flour, sugar, & baking soda.

Step 3

Next mix the eggs, buttermilk / butter, and pour the mixture into the dry ingredients, and mix well.

Step 4

Bake in the oven for about 20-30 minutes depending on your oven, if you check the centre is done with a skewer and it comes out clean,take it out the oven to cool.

Don't worry if the batter is a bit lumpy before it goes in the oven, it will smooth out as it bakes!

It will be VERY hot when it comes out so be careful.

Have fun baking!

Sunflower Cookies

Unsalted butter 1 cup or

granulated sugar 1 cup or

2 large Eggs

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup /salt

2 cups /of rolled oats

1 cup / shredded coconut

1 cup /of unsalted sunflower seeds

Step 1

Cream the butter and sugar (either brown or granulated sugar) and whisk still light and fluffy texture. This SHOULD take 4-5 minutes.

Step 2

Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix well.

Step 3

Into another bowl add the flour, salt baking soda baking powder and salt.

Step 4

Mix the dry mix to the butter mixture and when well mixed, continue to stir in the oats coconut and sunflower seeds.

Step 5

Drop in tablespoon on an ungreased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 360 f or as soon as the are brown round the edge, and if you need to check with a thermometer to make sure they're cooked well inside as well as out!

Fruit cheesecake Squares

For Crust

1 3/4 cups/ 436g All purpose flour

1/2 cups/64g Jam making sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup/ 340g Unsalted butter, (Chilled 7 in small pieces)

1 tsp water

For cheesecake Filling

8oz cream cheese

1/2 cup/ 64g sugar

1tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs, beaten lightly

1 cup of nice jam jelly or marmalade of your choice!

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 deg and grease a pan (9"x13' pan ready.

Step 2

Mix the flour sugar and salt very well (blender optional) . Add butter, until the dough begins to form.

Step 3

Press dough evenly over the bottom of the tin you prepared, and (using baking beads if you have them) bake the dough until lightly golden. (glaze with milk is optional to assist in browning glow!). This will take about 20 mins.

Step 4

Leave the crust to cool once out the oven.

While waiting you can prep the filling.

Step 5

Mix the softened cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and mix or blend well.

Step 6

Add eggs, and once well mixed and the crust has cooled, pour the cheesecake filling evenly over the crust.

Step 7

smooth the jam randomly on top and swirl into the mix gently with a knife.

Step 8

Bake for around 35-45 minutes or until the centre is set. Allow to cool before serving. Enjoy!!!

yum alert ****!

Thumbprint jam cookies

Makes 36 Wee Cookies!

3/4 tbsp Vanilla extract

1 cup/360g unsalted butter

1 cup/ sugar

2 2/3 cups of multi-purpose flour

3/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup/170g walnuts (very finely chopped, or blended

1/2 cup of Novelty has stainer, and tea bags.

1/3 cup of Jam or marmalade of choice.

Step 1

Cream the butter and sugar really well.

Step 2

Add the eggs and egg yolk and vanilla mix really well.

Step3

Combine the salt, flour,walnuts and sugar together and beat really well in a separate bowl.

step 4

Add flour gradually to the butter and sugar and mix until the mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Chill for an hour in the fridge.

Step 5

Preheat oven to 350 deg and lightly grease a biscuit tin with baking parchment. Roll the dough out into one inch balls, and make an indent in the middle of each with either your thumb or the end of a wooden spoon (wooden spoon is possibly more hygienic! )

Step 6

Bake until the edges are golden brown. This could take from 14-15 mins. Remove from oven and allows the cookies to have a rest, and to cool down! Yum alert! ***

Cornbread

Sunflower cookies

Fruit cheesecake squares

Thumbprint jam Cookies

Cranberry Soda Bread

cranberry Soda Bread

4 1/2 cups (500g) while whole wheat flour

1 cups (225g) Granulated sugar

2 tsp of Baking powder

1 heaped tsp Baking soda

1/2 cup (170g) Unsalted Butter (softened)

2 handfuls of cranberries (or more if desired)

2 tbsp of lime Zest and 1 tbsp juice (for added zing!)

2 cups (450g) buttermilk (heating butter & milk)

1/2 cup (170g) Heavy cream (naughty but nice!)

1 large egg

sparkly bit of sugar purely for show sprinkled on the top!

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees

step 2

Use one large loaf tin (or more defending if you're feeding more people) and line with baking parchment.

Step 3

Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl, the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and add a pinch of salt, and whisk well.

Step 4

Add in the butter, cranberries, lime zest & juice, cream, and egg to the dry ingredients, mix but don't over-do it!

Step 5

Scrape mixture into the pan and "Let the dough fairies out" by making an X marks the spot in the centre of your dough with a sharp knife.

Step 6

Pop in the oven for about 1 hr 15 mins, or until you can put a wooden toothpick or knife cleanly out with only moist crumbs, and not wet batter.

(If doing smaller loaves, check it after 45mins.)

Step 7

Allow to cool a bit, before flipping it out the pan, if you have a cooling rack thats perfect.

Enjoy while fresh or wrap tightly in wax paper, or foil and you can still warm it up if you like it warm!!

Pumpkin Pie

60z/ 170g ginger biscuits

1 tbsp dark sugar

1 tsp Ground Ginger

1 0z Unsalted butter (softened)

for filling

16oz /454g Pumpkin puree

1 cup/128g

2 large egg

1 large egg yolk

step 1

Pre-Heat your oven at 177 degrees c / 350 f

Step 2

Crumb, or blend the ginger biscuits (you could use a rolling pin) and combine with brown sugar and crumb until you have a nice compact mixture.

Step 3

Drizzle the softened butter into the mixture, & this will help the mixture to become sticky and combine forming the crust for your pie. If you have a blender give it 8-10 quick pulses.

step 4

Prepare your crust into a 9inch pie tin, and pop in the oven to bake for about 10-12 minutes.

Step 5

Simmer the pumpkin puree over a medium heat for a few minutes, you'll see it start to thicken. Add a pinch of nutmeg and a pinch of salt and continue to stir for around 10 minutes.

Step 6

Whisk the brown sugar, eggs and yolk until nice and smooth, and add the pumpkin mixture, mixing really well.

Step 7

Carefully pour the mixture onto the warm pie crust and bake for around 40-50 minutes keeping an eye on it. When the pie filling jiggles slightly but is done at the sides of the filling.

Step 8

After taking the pie carefully out of the oven, leave to cool for a good 2 hours.

Pumpkin Cake!

Personal Fave! ( I dedicate this one's to my friend Lauren!)

2 cups (200g) all purpose flour

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

3 large eggs!

1 cup of olive oil (any oil will do the job but that's the healthy option!)

1 can of (15oz) pumpkin puree (liquidized/ smushed pumpkin you can make up into food bags & freeze for when you need them)

For frosting:

Frosting is optional but yummy!

8oz cream cheese

8 tsp butter

icing sugar / powdered sugar

vanilla extract

Decorations optional, though Halloween toppings can be fun!

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees & prepare line grease baking tin.

step 2

Add all the dry ingredients into a bowl, including the flour, sugar, baking soda & baking powder, & cinnamon and mix really well.

step 3

Do the same with all the dry ingredients, whisk all the eggs, oil and pumpkin puree really well.

step4

Combine both mixtures and give it some elbow grease & mix really well, until nice n smooth!

step 5

When mixture is ready pop into baking tin and pop in the oven for about 30-40 minutes but keep checking after 30m minutes, if a toothpick or knife comes clean out the cake your good to take it out the oven and leave it to cool while you make your icing.

step 6

To prep the icing combine the icing sugar, the butter and the cream cheese & mix until nice and fluffy. You can do this either by hand of a mixer.

Step 7

Wait until your cake cools, and add your creamy yumminess on top!

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Cake

Great Recipes for Halloween!

Zuchini Bread

3 Cups/300g of all purpose flour

1 tsp salt

1tsp Baking Soda

1 tbsp of ground cinnamon

3 eggs

1 cup/100g of vegetable oil

2 1/4 cups /50g of white sugar

2 cups/200g of grated Zucchini / Courgette

1 cup /100g of walnuts (Optional)

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 165c.

Step 3

Sift the the salt,flour, baking soda & the cinnamon into a bowl, and mix.

Step 3

Beat the eggs, oil vanilla, and sugar together into a large bowl and add in the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beat well (lots of muscle action needed!)

Step 4

Add the zucchini, and walnuts & pour the batter into a tin. (I would usually use a loaf tin if big enough)

Step 5

pop in the oven for 40 to 60 minutes depending on your oven, but have a prod after 40 mins, and if your stick or knife comes out clean, consider it baked!

Boston Cream Pie

It's important to let it cool once out the oven for about 20 minutes. Enjoy with a nice cup of Yorkshire tea or coffee!

Or a nice New England Coffee blend if your over the pond!!

Should come with health warning Naughty but Nice!!!

225g self raising / all purpose flour

225g (80z) caster sugar

4 eggs

1tsp Baking Powder

40g chocolate chopped (dark choice but optional!)

For cream naughty centre!

2 cups of whole milk or thick cream (again depending on how naughty you want to be!)

1 cup/ 100g of granulated sugar

pinch of salt

2 1/2 tbsp of cornstarch

3tbsp of butter

3 egg yolks

step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and prepare a 9'' baking tin or two tins if you halve the mixture into both, this will prevent you having to cut the cake in half with a serrated knife.

step 2

mix together the flour and salt and baking powder in a bowl and set aside.

step 3

Combine milk and butter and set on a low heat.

step 4

Beat the eggs and sugar really well, or use an electric mixer, and add to the dry mixture of your flour and salt.

Step 5

Bring the milk to the boil and add hot liquid to mixture stirring very well, until smooth.

Step 6

Transfer the smooth gooey loveliness to your pan smoothing out the top and bake in the oven for around 35 mins, or until you can prod it clean through.

step 7

Carefully with a Serrated knife cut cake in half for filling, Or pop both out when cooled on a wire rack to prep!

Step 8

Leave to cool, and spread half with your naughty filling!

Zuchini Bread

Boston Cream Pie

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Cornbread Recipe

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1 cup or 340g of Cornmeal / cornflour

3/4 cup or 225g of flour

1 tablespoon of Baking soda

1/4 teaspoon of salt

2 large eggs

1 1/2 cups / 192g of butter milk (Cooled melted butter in milk, though you may be able to buy it ready made )

equally just use a nice soft baking butter like stork for baking!)

​

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees or 200 in a fan oven and lightly grease a baking tin. If you have a square tray they work well.

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Step 2

Mix all the dry ingredients together into a bowl, including the flour, sugar, & baking soda.

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Step 3

Next mix the eggs, buttermilk / butter, and pour the mixture into the dry ingredients, and mix well.

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Step 4

Bake in the oven for about 20-30 minutes depending on your oven, if you check the centre is done with a skewer and it comes out clean,take it out the oven to cool.

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Don't worry if the batter is a bit lumpy before it goes in the oven, it will smooth out as it bakes!

It will be VERY hot when it comes out so be careful.

Have fun baking!

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Sunflower Cookies

Unsalted butter 1 cup or

granulated sugar 1 cup or

2 large Eggs

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup /salt

2 cups /of rolled oats

1 cup / shredded coconut

1 cup /of unsalted sunflower seeds

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Step 1

Cream the butter and sugar (either brown or granulated sugar) and whisk still light and fluffy texture. This SHOULD take 4-5 minutes.

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Step 2

Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix well.

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Step 3

Into another bowl add the flour, salt baking soda baking powder and salt.

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Step 4

Mix the dry mix to the butter mixture and when well mixed, continue to stir in the oats coconut and sunflower seeds.

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Step 5

Drop in tablespoon on an ungreased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 360 f or as soon as the are brown round the edge, and if you need to check with a thermometer to make sure they're cooked well inside as well as out!

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Fruit cheesecake Squares

For Crust

1 3/4 cups/ 436g All purpose flour

1/2 cups/64g Jam making sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup/ 340g Unsalted butter, (Chilled 7 in small pieces)

1 tsp water

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For cheesecake Filling

8oz cream cheese

1/2 cup/ 64g sugar

1tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs, beaten lightly

1 cup of nice jam jelly or marmalade of your choice!

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Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 deg and grease a pan (9"x13' pan ready.

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Step 2

Mix the flour sugar and salt very well (blender optional) . Add butter, until the dough begins to form.

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Step 3