Delicious Scones ( lunchbox)

These are great because they contain little sugar or fat.

You will need
8 oz (225g) self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2oz (50g) margerine
1oz (25g) castor sugar.
7 tablespoons milk

A little extra milk for glazing.

Mix together all ingredients in a bowl until it forms a dough .
Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly.
Cut into rounds and place on a greased baking tray
Brush the tops with milk and bake in a preheated oven (220C, 425F, gas 7) for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown
This mixture makes about 10 scones if you use a 2 1/2 inch cutter.
They taste great while still warm with jam or margerine on .

For fruit scones add 2-3 oz (50-75g) currants, sultana's etc to the mixture

For cheese scones leave out the sugar and add 4 oz (125g) finely grated cheese .
1 teaspoon mustard powder
1/4 teaspoon salt and a pinch of Cayenne pepper .

Sambo's chocolate fairy cakes!

Gorgeous fairy cakes with a magic ingredient!

You will need
6 oz margerine
6oz sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
5 oz self raising flour
1oz cocoa powder
2 tablespoons vanilla milk (this is the magic ingredient!)

Preheat oven to 180 C

Cream together with a fork the margerine and the sugar until pale and fluffy
Beat the eggs in a seperate bowl and stir them into the mixture .
Seive together the baking powder, flour and cocoa powder, add to the mixture.
Add in the milk and then stir until fully mixed .
Put the mixture into fairy cake cases and bake for 10-15 minutes or until they spring up when depressed.
When cool you could eat as they are or ice them. Here is my recipe for chocolate butter icing.
8 oz icing sugar
2 oz margerine
2 oz drinking chocolate
few drops of milk

Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl until fully mixed . Put on as much or as little as you fancy! I usually top mine off with some sugar flowers or jelly diamonds

These also make a sort of biscuit if you cook them on a shallow tray for a few minutes longer, I did this by accident at the weekend! But they turned out great!

Pasta Salad

This is one of my childrens favourite meals .

You will need some or all of these ingredients, whichever takes your fancy!
Pasta
Sweetcorn
Salad
Peanuts
Cucumber
Cherry tomatos
Cheese
Seeds
Spring onions
Grated carrot
Tuna

What I do is put all of these foods in seperate bowls on the table and everyone helps themselves and it always dissapears before my eyes!