Serves as many as you need
Ready in 30mins
Ingredients
Mini mashmallows
Lots of large bars of milk/dark/white chocolate
Broken digestive biscuits
Sultanas/raisins
Glace cherries
1.
Break the chocolate and melt very slowly in a pan or in a microwave. Mix well
2.
Place the sultanas, biscuits, mashmallows and cherries in a bowl with the melted chocolate and mix well so that everything is coated.
3.
Either place the mixture in blobs on a lined baking tray or put into cupcake cases and place in the fridge to set for about 20minutes.
Makes 12
Ready in 1hour15
Ingredients
400g white bread flour
1 tsp salt
1tsp sugar
15g butter plus extra for greasing
1 sachet of easy yeast
250ml whole milk, warmed
375g chipolatas
1 medium egg beaten
1tbsp sesame seeds
1tbsp poppy seeds
Tomato ketchup to serve
1.
Line two baking trays with baking paper. Put the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl and rub in the butter. Stir in the yeast and milk and mix to make a dough. Knead for 10 minutes on a floured surface, by pushing the dough away from you firmly and then repeating.
2.
Preheat the oven to 220C/220C Fan/Gas 7. Put the dough in a greased bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave in a warm spot until it doubles in size. Knead for one minute, then divide into
12 pieces and roll out to 38cm long strips.
3.
Wind the dough round the sausages. Put on the trays, leaving a gap between them. Cover the trays loosely with clingfilm and leave in a warm place until the dough is puffy.
4.
Remove the clingfilm and brush the dough with the egg.
Sprinkle with poppy or sesame seeds. Bake for 20mintues.
Serve with ketchup.
Cookery club cheat – buy readymade bread dough and add water.
Makes 6-8 savoury buns
Time taken – 30mins
Ingredients
100g self-raising flour
25g soft butter
5 chive stems
25g feta cheese
50ml whole milk
1.
Put the flour and butter together in the bowl and rub them together with your fingers until the mixture becomes crumbly.
2.
Put the chives into a small bowl or cup and chop with clean scissors. Add to the mixing bowl. Now crumble the feta cheese using your fingers and add to the mixing bowl too. Stir with the fork.
3.
Pour most of the milk into the mixture and stir it with a fork until it all sticks together in a ball. You may need to add a little more of the milk if it is dry. Now shape the dough with your hands into a bowl.
4.
On your workmat sprinkle a little flour and roll out your mixture with a rolling pin until it is about 0.5cm thick.
5.
Using a cutter, gently cut out the shapes in the mixture and place them onto baking paper on a baking tray.
6.
Preheat in an oven at 200C Fan/ 220C/ Gas 7 for 8-10 minutes until risen and golden on the top.
Makes 12
Time taken – 45 mins
Ingredients
125g puff pastry at room temperature
2 level dessert spoons of tomato puree
30g cheddar cheese
Dried mixed herbs
Oil for greasing
1.
Sprinkle your work surface with flour and roll out the pastry into a nice big rectangle with a rolling pin until it is about the thickness of a £1 coin. Use a blunt knife to spread a thin layer of tomato puree all over the pastry.
2.
Carefully grate over the cheddar cheese and sprinkle on top.
Sprinkle dried mixed herbs on top of cheese if desired.
3.
Roll up the pastry into a long sausage shape, hiding all the filling inside the layers.
4.
Carefully cut the pastry rolls into slice with the blunt knife.
Lay the slices onto the baking tray lined with baking paper.
5.
Put in preheated oven at 200C Fan/220C Gas for 15 minutes.
These can also be frozen for up to one month!