• Butter
• Garlic salt
• Half a french bread stick

Method:

Turn the oven on to 150°c or 300°f.

Cut french bread into 3 serving sizes. Split each piece into 2 by slicing through the middle. Butter the bread, and then lightly sprinkle with garlic salt. Place in oven until golden brown.

What You’ll Need:

• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 1 cup of grated cheese
• 1/4 cup of chutney
• 1 tablespoon of grated onion
• 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce
• 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
• 6 thick slices of bread

Method:
Turn the grill on high. Melt butter in a small pan, stir in cheese and chutney. Add onion, tomato & worchestershire sauce. Stir mixture.

Place bread under the grill and lightly toast one side. Spread the cheese mixture on the untoasted side. Place the toast with cheesy spread under the grill until it is bubbled and golden. Serve immediately

What You’ll Need:

• 1 packet vanilla cake mix
• Food colouring (3 colours)

Method:

This is a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon with your toddler. Take one packet of vanilla cake mix and prepare as per the instructions. Divide the mixture into 3 bowls. Add a few drops of different coloured food colouring to each bowl and let your toddler mix the colours in.

When your toddler has finished mixing. Let them spoon the mixture in any sequence they like into a greased cake tin. They’ll be delighted by the muddle of colours they are creating.

Bake the cake as per the packet instructions.

What You’ll Need:

• 100g of melted butter
• 1 packet of malt biscuits
• 1/2 a tin of condensed milk
• 1 pack of fruit puffs, marshmellows or eskimos – cut up into bits
• Dried coconut

Method:

Crush biscuits very finely. Chop up the lollies. Combine with half a tin condensed milk and mix well. Roll the mixture into a log and roll it in the coconut.

Place it in the fridge and cut into slices when hard.

What You’ll Need:

• 1 cup sugar
• ¾ cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup mashed bananas
• 1¾ cup oats
• 1½ cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon baking soda

Method
Preheat oven to 180° C and grease a cooking tray.

Cream together the butter, sugar and egg. It will become light and fluffy. Stir in the mashed bananas and the oats. Combine the remaining dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Blend the mixture well.

Use a teaspoon and measure out the cookie dough onto the greased tray. One teaspoon makes one cookie.

Bake for 15-20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before serving.

What You’ll Need:

• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt
• a sprinkle of pepper
• parsley

Method:

Break eggs into a saucepan and add milk, salt and pepper. Beat the egg mixture well. Place on the stove over a medium heat and stir constantly. As the mixture starts to thicken reduce the heat and keep stirring. Be careful not to over cook – it should be a little runny.

Serve with toast immediately.

What You’ll Need:

• 1 vanilla instant pudding
• 3 1/4 cups milk
• 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla
• 1 punnet of strawberries
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Method:

Mix instant pudding, milk and vanilla in a bowl and beat for about a minute. Leave to cool in the fridge for about 20 minutes. Meanwhile wash, dry and hull the berries. Halve the strawberries and sprinkle with sugar. Take the sauce out of the fridge and beat again until smooth. Divide berries into 6 glasses, spoon in sauce and serve.

What You’ll Need:

• 3 Mars Bars
• 6-7 handfuls of cornflakes/rice bubbles

Method:

Melt the 3 Mars Bars in a bowl over boiling water, you’ll need to stir continuously until melted. Add the cornflakes or rices to the chocolate and mix together. Add more cornflakes if needed. Spoon mixture into a muffin tray and leave in the refrigerator until they are hard.

What You’ll Need:

• 1/2 cup of butter
• 5 apples
• 1 cup of flour
• 3/4 cup of brown sugar
• a dash of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons sugar

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Grease a flat baking dish.

Melt butter in the microwave and set aside to cool. Peel, core and slice the apples and place them in the baking dish. Sift flour, sugar, salt and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add egg and the melted butter to the dry ingredients, mix well using a fork. Spread the mixture over the apples and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top.

Bake for 40 mins

What You’ll Need:

• 500g cooking chocolate
• 1 tin Condensed Milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essense
• 1 cup of chopped almonds

Method:

Break up chocolate. Combine chocolate with condensed milk and vanilla essense in a saucepan. Place over another saucepan that is half filled with water. Heat the double saucepan and stir continuously as the mixture melts. Add the chopped almonds. Line a small slice tin with baking paper and pour in the fudge. Place in fridge until cool and then cut into bite sized pieces. Store in fridge.