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MrMarvelous

MrMarvelous

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Hey guys! Bought myself a really cheep and cheerful scale for a £5 off Amazon, if anyone want to have a look the link is below. Note that all the common/popular colours are a bit more expensive.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CRCZDH4/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=kitchen

Now i've never baked before so can anyone recommend a nice tasting, easy recepie for a 1st time baker? I've been thinking about making a simple Victorian sponge, would that be a good place to start for a 1st time?

Ta.
 
I think you meant Victoria sponge. Yes they are quite easy but I personally hate the whole cooking two cakes and cementing them together with jam and butter cream thing - too much of a faff for me getting both pieces level and looking nice (I'm a lazy cook!).

If you want to make a cake, I guarantee this recipe (if cooked correctly) will get people pestering you for the recipe. I tend to double the drizzle part which makes it a super moist cake.

For bread, to be honest you can't go wrong with flatbread which when finished you can rub a garlic clove over the bread, brush very lightly with good olive oil and lightly season to taste - lovely garlic bread and SO easy to make, just takes a bit of time. There are better recipes for flat bread but can't remember my current favourite which uses carbonated water.

For another easy cake you can't go wrong with a marble cake. Little bit faffy having to have two mixtures but again it looks so impressive, tastes good but is pretty easy to do, just make sure you use good quality ingredients (esp the cocoa).
 
The lemon drizzle cake above is a good call, great if you're having people round or otherwise making it for others as it's a bit different these days.
 
Non bake cheesecake is very easy as well. Plenty of recipes online.

Loads of great blogs about, BBC Good Food and Foodgawker are good places to start
 
I'm going to be having a go at the lemon one, thanks guys!

This was also waiting for me when I got in from work:

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Hi mate these are super sensitive and 100% accurate. Just put a 1KG weight in there and my HTC Desire and it's spot on. The tray and weight are combined though so what i'll be doing is weighing things out in a bowl. The LCD read out is bright and clear and i'm really impressed with it.

I'd deffo go for it, it's only £5 which if you're lucky is 2 pints. Just need to go out and buy all the stuff for baking now. :p
 
Honey flapjacks

1 x 250g block of butter (either salted or unsalted, to taste, I prefer salted)
280g of porridge oats, any cheapo ones will do, like the <50p Tesco et al sell
20g crushed nuts, almond, hazelnut, whatever
8 x heaped tablespoons of clear runny honey. Then some more (can sub this for Golden Syrup, also awesome)

Dice the butter, pop in a pan and melt over a mid/low heat. Do not allow it to burn. Add the honey. Measure out the dry ingredients and when the butter is completely melted and mixed with the honey, dump it all in. Turn the heat off and mix until there is no more dry oats/nuts.

The consistency should be wet but not soaking. Too dry here and you'll end up with a tray of toasted crumbs, too wet and it will be soggy. So here you have your last chance to fix it with more oats or honey. Pour mixture into a deep baking tray lined with baking parchment, I use a pyrex roasting dish, and pop into a preheated 180c oven for 18-20 minutes. Check on it after 15 or so minutes and regularly after. It should not be dark brown at the edges, if it is you failed. When the surface is golden brown, remove from the oven and place the tray/dish on a wire rack and cut into flapjack rectangles or squares while hot with a sharp knife. Do not try to remove any as they will fall apart and are atomically hot, allow to cool to room temp and they will harden. They keep in tupperware box for 2-3 days and are very morish, I make them very often
 
boxman2000 said:
I think you meant Victoria sponge. Yes they are quite easy but I personally hate the whole cooking two cakes and cementing them together with jam and butter cream thing - too much of a faff for me getting both pieces level and looking nice (I'm a lazy cook!).
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Cook one tall one and cut it in half?
 
Alright went ahead and baked a 'Lemon Drizzle' cake. Followed the instructions and ingredients to a tee but I think loaf tin sizes vary around the world, the bloody thing nearly hit the top of my oven!

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It was meant to rise to the top of the tine, nowhere near as high as that though!

Smelled amazing though and it's just cooling in the kitchen at the moment, might give it a try later on in about an hour or so.

Really impressed, I know it's an easy recepie but for my 1st time i'm well chuffed. I'll use to loaf tins instead of one next time though.
 
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