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Food & crafts => Recipes => Topic started by: Factotum on June 17, 2012, 01:37:52 pm
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Our village gala is approaching (Sunday 1st July) and I'm looking for new ideas for home bakes to sell in our tea tent.
The village hall committee all supply 18 cakes and I usually make choc brownies, fairy cakes, sultana cake for slicing or similar. Other offerings include ginger bread-men, choc cakes of all types, pancakes with jam, victoria sponge.
What would you bake to sell in a tea tent? - ideally small individual cake type items.
Many thanks
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What about whoopie pies or macarons? Never tried making macrons but they look so pretty I shall have a go one day.
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if you have time on the day individual pavlovas dead quick and easy, do need to be refrigerated till the last minute though!!!
sell well have excellent profit margins if priced correctly!!!
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Not individual I know but lemon drizzle cake is nice and it cuts well
Sally
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Macaroons might be a no-no - nuts? Sorry, not being rude here, just we have to be careful about nuts - don't want our customers keeling over and making a mess in our lovely tea tent ;D
The small pavlovas sound great, but we don't have a fridge & we are open all afternoon - mind if the weather stays this 'hot' they'll be OK. Already had a discussion with the Env. Health officer about fresh cream cakes - not allowed.
Just looked up a recipe for lemon drizzle - yum, I'll just have to try that out before hand.
Any more ideas out there?
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well on the same lines as drizzle cake
sticky ginger cake cut into slices its yummy!!!
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Tray bakes.
Really easy/quick/reliable. Cut easily into squares of whatever size you choose.
I make - banana, chocolate, vanilla, lemon, mincemeat and so on. ;D
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truffles?
thinking along the kiddie line at school we sell marshmallow tophats which go very quickly
another good, cheap quick sell is popcorn put into see through icing bags, tied with a pretty ribbon?
the unusual beetroot cake or courgette cake?
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oooh, chocolate & beetroot cake ... delicious! :yum:
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Mars Bar Slice/Squares
Kids love them (so do adults... :yum: :yum: )
Take 3 standard size mars bars chop into 3-4 pieces put in microwave safe bowl (I usually half melt the bars first) add 2oz butter, 2 tblspn Golden syrup gently melt together 2-3 mins at medium zap. Don't heat on high as that can make the bars go like toffee.
Give it a mix, should be thick and hopefully no lumps... and then add 4 cups rice crispies - mix untill crispies well covered. Turn into well greased foil-lined tin. 11" x 7" x 1" deep. Gently press flat.
Melt 4oz Milk choc - spread over the top. When cold cut into squares/triangles/fingers.
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Yes, the mars bar slices go down well ......I call them space bars!! Choc fridge cake, made in a tray and sliced is popular. Any sort of cup cakes, and tray bakes. Individual lemon merangue pies, and loaf cakes (fruit, chocolate, even cheese, I have made) Chocolate brownies, shortbread, millionaires shortbread.
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Many thanks to all for the lovely ideas - might have to try some out first - pity poor hubby, he's going to put on weight. ;D
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Already had a discussion with the Env. Health officer about fresh cream cakes - not allowed
What's next, no more milk in our coffee? ::) We had to send a few men involved in the village carnival barbeque on a course on how to flip burgers....
The mars bar slices sound good. Homemade chocolate covered corn flakes are great, too - very light and crunchy.
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Ive devised a recipe for a very tasty apple and sultana cake if you'd like it. Its now doing the rounds in Queensland Australia thanks to my friend Sally who tried some when she visited us and fell in love with it. It can be eaten hot as a pudding with cream or custard, or as a cold cake. Both are as equally good.
Mary.
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Just tried making chocolate beetroot muffins -they're delicious - even OH said they were good - though perhaps not sweet enough for him. That's a first, OH is definitely a savoury man :innocent:
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Ive devised a recipe for a very tasty apple and sultana cake
Sounds good, yes please Mary.
Thanks
Sue
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You will need:
8 ozs SR flour plus 1 tsp baking powder
6 ozs butter
6 ozs sugar
3 eggs
3 ozs sultanas
drop vanilla essence
a couple fluid ozs milk
2 large granny smith or similar eating apples like Braeburn (crisp and juicy)
1-2 tbsps cinnamon.
Grease and line a fairly deep square or oblong cake tin.
Peel the apples, cut into quarters, remove the core and then slice fairly thinly into a large bowl. Sprinkle enough cinnamon over the apples and move them around so that as much apple as possible is covered. Put to one side.
Place all the cake ingredients into a blender EXCEPT the sultanas and the milk. Whizz them all up for a minute, then check the consistency. It should drop quite easily off a spoon. If its a bit stiff, then add some or all of the milk. You shouldnt need anymore than the amount stated. Whizz again for 10 seconds or so till all the milk is well mixed in. Remove the blade from the processor and stir in the sultanas.
Place just over a half of the cake mixture into your tin, place the apples evenly on top of the mixture, then cover with the remainder of the mix carefully. No matter how hard I try, I always manage to loosen cinnamon which mixes with the batter. Dont worry about that.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at gas mark 5 for around 45 minutes. If its getting too brown on top after 25 minutes, turn it down to 4.
When you remove it from the oven, allow it to cool in the tin then dust the top with icing sugar and cut into squares or rectangles.
Enjoy!!
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That sounds nice - do you think I could make muffins using that recipe - with a couple of apple bits in each one?
Sue
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I dont see why not. Great idea actually, they'd be easier to eat I think.
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I would think you would need to keep the apple very thin though as muffins have a much shorter cooking time.
Sally
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Good point Sally, - my muffins cook in about 30 mins compared to the recipe timing of 45.
I feel another experiment coming on here... I think Steve may be getting a bit thicker round the middle over the next few days.
Sue
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NM, I made your apple and sultana cake yesterday and very nice it was too.
thankyou
Sally
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So glad you liked it Sally. Its always a bit daunting giving a recipe out as everybody's taste is different.
Mary.
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Many thanks for all the suggestions.
I made 2 types of muffins choc and beetroot and lemon drizzle.
The ladies of the village did a grand job making cakes for us too. The other highlights included carrot cake muffins with tiny marzipan carrots on the icing, a whole lemon drizzle cake, loads of millionaires, a tray of bridal slice, a couple of Hermans, and so many differently iced fairy cakes that the customers spent ages just going 'Ohhh!'.
A good time was had by all, despite the rain, which was rapidly followed by the midges... North East Scotland in July - what else could be expected?
Sue