Crumb Cake

Ingredients:
3 cups Flour
100g Marg (1 stick)
1/2 cup Oil
1 1/2 cups Sugar
2 1/2 tsps Vanilla
2 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
3 Eggs
1 small Whip (not whipped up)

Mix flour, marg, oil, sugar and vanilla to make a crumb mixture. (You can do this by hand, but much easier to do in the machine).

Once mixed well, take off 1 1/4 cups of the crumbs and set aside. To the main mixture add the baking powder, eggs and whip and mix well to create a batter.

Pour into a 9 x 13 (or various smaller containers).

Spread mixture evenly over the container.

Sprinkle mixture with the set aside crumbs.

Bake on 180 for 30-45 minutes. Test with a toothpick to see if its done.

Et voila!

Chocolate Chip Oat Biscuits

Ingredients:
1 cup Oil
2 Eggs
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 cup White Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
2 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Oats
1/2 cup Chocolate Chips

Mix all ingredients besides oats and chocolate chips. Once dough is mixed well, add oats and chocolate chips and mix them in well.

Roll into balls and place on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper. Allow biscuits room to spread.

Bake for 10-12 minutes in a preheated oven on 175.

If you want soft, chewy biscuits, they should still be quite soft when they come out of the oven as they will harden a bit as they cool.

These biscuits freeze well.

Et Voila!

Chocolate Biscuits

Ingredients:
8oz Margarine
4oz Sugar
1 tbsp Vanilla Sugar/ Essence
2oz Cocoa
8oz Flour

Cream the margarine, sugar and vanilla (either with the back of a spoon or machine. I find it easiest to do with a hand held machine).




Add cocoa and mix well.


Add flour and mix well.



You can freeze the dough at this stage and then defrost it when you want fresh biscuits without the hassle of making the dough. For this reason I made a double recipe and froze half of the dough.

Roll into balls and place on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.

Press each one down with a fork dipped in cold water.



Bake in a preheated oven on 175 for 10-12 minutes.

Biscuits should still be soft when you take them out the oven and they will harden as they cool.

Once cooked, the biscuits freeze well.

Et Voila!

Chocolate Brownies

Recipe:
1 1/4 cups Plain Flour
2/3 cup cocoa
almost 2 cups sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
14 tbsp oil/ melted marg
4 eggs
4 tsp baking powder

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. It is really easy to mix with a spoon, so I dont bother getting the beaters out.

Once all is mixed in, the batter should look like this.

Pour batter into tin (this recipe is for a 9 x 13 or 2 smaller tins)

Batter is quite thick, but dont worry about spreading it out evenly in tin as as soon as it starts baking it will even itself out.
Bake in a preheated oven on 175 for minimum of 40 minutes. After 40 minutes, check with a toothpick if it is ready. If the toothpick comes out clean it is ready, if it comes out dirty it needs few more minutes of cooking and then check again.

(Unclean toothpick)

Tip: If you are making one big one (9x 13), you do not need to mix the batter in a bowl, mix directly in cake tin avoiding dirtying a bowl!

Et voila!

(It is normal for the brownie to sink in a bit once baked)

Thanks Etel!