Three Traybakes To Try (Baking)

Member Name: jessyclown

Product:	Baking
Date:	05/12/01 (2437 review reads)
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Advantages: Yum, Yum, Yum

Disadvantages: I have to make at least double

I love home made food. I love to eat home made cakes and biscuits and when I have friends around for meetings I love to be able to feed them on home made goodies. There are three recipes I use regularly to feed my visitors. All three recipes are easy to bake and go down very well with my visitors and my family.

ANNIES DATE CHEW

These are very sweet and moorish. The final product are crispy on top and chewy underneath. It is all held together with rice paper. You can kid yourself they are good for you as they have a lot of dates in and dried fruit must be good for you!

Ingredients:

8oz Dates
8oz Sugar
4oz Self Raising Flour
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
edible rice paper

Method

Line 7inch x 11 inch tin with rice paper.
Chop up the dates and place on the tray
Mix together the sugar, flour, eggs and vanilla essence in a bowl. The mixture is quite stiff. Spoon the mixture as evenly as possible over the dates
Bake in oven at 180c for 25 minutes.
Cool on a cooling rack chop into pieces and wait for the admiration, that is if you can resist eating them all. The top should be light brown and crisp inside should be soft but not runny.

FLAPJACKS

These are a standard food to serve but they can be varied by adding dried fruit or some muesli, if you like ginger add some to your flapjacks for another variation. I add a secret ingredient of flour that stops the flapjacks being too greasy.

Ingredients:

6oz Margarine
6oz Demerara Sugar
2 Tablespoons Golden Syrup
8oz Porridge oats
1 Tablespoon flour

Method

Melt Margarine, Sugar, and Syrup in a large pan when melted add the oats and flour and mix when fully combined put mixture in a greased 8-inch square tin, flatten out and bake in oven at 160c for 25 minutes. Leave to cool for a few minutes then turn out onto a cooling rack. Cut up into suitable size pieces
and eat.

CHOCOLATE BROWNIES

My version of chocolate brownies does not contain nuts, as my children are not keen on nuts. We first made these when my daughter did her hostess badge at Brownies! I like this recipe as you use cocoa rather than chocolate and I always have cocoa in the house. The brownies come out moist and irresistible.

Ingredients:

6 oz margarine
12 oz granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 eggs
4oz self raising flour
3oz cocoa

Method

Melt the margarine add sugar, vanilla essence, and beaten eggs. Sift in flour and cocoa when all mixed in well, put mixture in a greased deep 8 inch by 11 inch or slightly larger tin. Bake for 40 minutes at 180c
When the top has a crust and the middle is soft remove from the oven. Leave for a few minutes in the tin then turn out onto a cooling tray to cool. Cut into pieces and serve.

These are three of my favourites. There are many other recipes, which go down well in my home, but you will have to be satisfied with these for now

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