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Thankyou Christina for taking the trouble to put your recipe on - I shall be giving it a try. x

I am a bit hit and miss with cake and pastry cooking......last sponge turned out like a frisbee so I use packet mixes instead.......good on you who get it right.....

I loved it if I was on the cake stall because parents and children made a bee-line for it and it was soon sold out, and then I could look round the other stalls..... glad it was a success for you....

hi there everyone, thought i would share my malteser traybake recipe with you
into a medium saucepan; 4oz hard stork margarine, cut into cubes,1 1/2 tablespoons of golden syrup,8oz dairy milk chocoalte broken into squares,

prepare; take 8oz of digestives ,put into large freezer bag and crush with rolling pin until fine. take 8oz of maltesers and do the same.

on a medium heat melt ingredients in the pan. take care not to overheat or the chocolate starts to separate. once all melted, remove from heat and add crushed biscuits and maltesers. stir well and put back on heat for a minute or two until all nicely mixed. the mixture will be quite stiff at this stage.

spread evenly intoa baking tray or swiss roll tin. rectangular, about1cm deep..press with a knife so it is even all over and then chill for about 20 mins in the fridge until set.

take two 300g bars of white chocolate cake covering. i use dr. oetker. break up into squares into a microwaveable bowl. once the tray bake is set,put the chocolate on high for about 2 mins.check and stir. if not quite dissolved put on for another 30 seconds until all ismeltd. then pour evenly all over traybake and return to fridge until set. when set you should be able to lift off the tray in one piece. with a large knife you can then cut into squares.

eat and enjoy!!

LOL that reminds me of the "Loose Women" Malteser sponsor where she is making like gingerbread men?/ladies with malteser boobs....LOl

That sounds yummy Christina.

Recipe please, Christina!

whenever we have any coffee evenings or fundraisers, i always make a malteser tray bake, covered in white chocolate. never fails and you get about 40 squares out of it. if i make it at home, its eaten before the next day!!

Who put a recipe on here for chocolate cake a few weeks ago. I think it might of been J.B.Angel. Well, I've made it twice and, well, it disappeared before I hardly had a chance to have a piece myself, so yummy! If it was you JBA, I have a query about the choc icing (?) that goes over the top - whoever it was I think was an experienced cake maker and I'm definitely NOT. Thanks.

oooo fantastic.

Usually my cakes when done for others go horrendously wrong lol....so well done to her !!!

These only turned out ok because i've done them over and over (which is most likely why my two never bought them lol) xx

Oh they are naughty not buying Mum's cakes. My youngest is into making and decorating cakes and today she completed a pink guitar one for her boyfriends sisters birthday. It's the best one she's done so far.

Hi Helen.

Not sure what the final totals were....but my Chocolate fairy cakes with chocolate butter icing....and my Strawberry sponge all went...and quite early on too...so I'm told... (my friend was manning the stall lol) which I felt quite chuffed about.

My girls didn't buy my cakes though....blinking cheek pmsl xx

Muffy,
just wondering how the cake sales went?

I found the same as TW when many years ago I was on the school fete cake stall....... but before the fete opened a teacher would come and pick a large cake to have with tea in the staff room........paying a small amount of course........we weren't allowed to buy anything beforehand.......I suppose they thought it was one of the perks.....

Coffee and Walnut cakes, cream sponges and lemon cakes were the favourites in big cakes, and butterfly cakes the most popular small ones.....

I remember buns and little things always seemed to go down well when we did fundraising for our year charity at secondary school - we could sell them at 10p each and still make quite a bit.

One think I've done before that might be worth a go is, make a sponge cake in a big square or rectangular roasting tin like you'd put a turkey in. (You might need to increase the quantities in the recipe - it depends how deep you want it to be!) Then, when it's cooked, slice it up into squares or fingers - you could even ice them or put buttercream on them - so they're a hand-held size. I've been able to get anything up to 30 pieces out of one baking tray sized cake if I do it that way.)

Thanks all.

I think then I'll do some small ones and one large one..looks like this weekend will be a baking weekend lol xx

a cake raffle it s great idea

Muffy

anything sells and our are always a sell out in no time at all and we sell bought stuff as well and they go just as well.

We always pick a couple of large homemade ones and do a cake raffle which is always popular.

I usually make big and little and stuff I can make in advance and freeze so can make it when i am well enough then just pull out for tidler to take in

Hi Muffy

I was Chair of the PTA. Individual cakes sell well but we found that the best sellers were the larger ones which we've sold for £5.00 and more with a smile tellilng them that it's all for the children lol!

xxx Shimms xxx

i can almost smell them cakes cooking MMMMMMmmmm

i always have to double the mixture as everybody has a spoon in it
before it goes in the oven

Hi Muffy, I was school treasurer, and also used to make cakes, as others have said small cakes make most money. Carol