Microwave mug cakes.

www.notquitenigella.com/2012/07/03/5-minute-self-saucing-banana-butterscotch-pudding/
Thank you hildajenniJ for the recommendation. I made the pudding today, it was delicious!

It's a deal glass!

Right I will call by in the morning with the shirts and will bring lasagne back when I collect them in the afternoon.

glass Oh, yes please! Would iron 15 shirts for that! I do enjoy eating tasty food... it's just the actual cooking I have a problem with!

joy my lasagne is legendary would that do

glass Yes, I'm free on Sunday, hope you don't mind if I bring my own iron! Meanwhile, you can pop round here and make a nice big batch of spag bol...

jings I agreee, Mr Waitrose is great, but Joe's cheaper!

Joy you free on Sunday I have the shirts to do for the week

Yeah. Mr Waitrose does a lot of mine now. He's very good at it.

jings Thank you for speedy reply and the very helpful info! I've got some crystallised ginger lurking in the cupboard and will pretend to be a modern day chef and chuck some of that in. Joe will wonder what's come over me, haven't made a 'proper pudding' for years. Problem is I would normally do ANYTHING rather than cook (yes, I mean ANYTHING... clean the toilet, iron 10 shirts...). Happily cooked for the family for years, but have now hung up my apron and Joe does most of it. But... your pud and loopy's are so speedy and so tempting I'll dig out the scales, dust off my wooden spoon and get cracking this weekend.

mmmmm

crystallised - no 'h'!

I suppose modern day chefs would add some chrystallised ginger. Which would be nice!

Joy It came from the cookbook that came with my first Kenwood Chef. I'm pretty sure I used to adapt this recipe.

5 oz SR flour
3 oz butter
4oz sugar
1 large egg
3 tbsps milk
half teasp mix spice
1 teasp cinnamon
half teasp powdered ginger
3 - 4 oz mix fruit or sultanas.

For the ginger version I missed out the cinnamon and mixed spice and probably put 2 teasps ginger in (I love ginger).

All in bowl together and beat up with hand mixer.

Microwave for about 4 - 5 mins in greased basin with tea plate on top.

Melt golden syrup in microwave separately.

Try notquitenigella.com.
She has some lovely recipes. My favourite is banana and butterscotch microwave self saucing pudding. Yummy, makes your mouth water just thinking about it.

I'd forgotten about the microwave sponge puddings, quick and easy, 25+years since I've made one..... I used to buy a little magazine called Home and Freezer, full of easy recipes and I still have one copy with Upside down Amond and Cherry cake, scrummy and very moreish

jings Ginger pud with golden syrup... Ooooooh, I want some NOW! Do you have the recipe? (When it comes to cooking I have to have it all spelt out to me in words of one or two syllables - I have no intuition!)

[jings] Ginger pud with golden syrup... Ooooooh, I want some NOW! Do you have the recipe? (When it comes to cooking I have to have it all spelt out to me in words of one or two syllables - I have no intuition!)

I don't know why I made one as I am supposed to be watching my weight too.
I just had the urge.

[mouth watering emoticon]

Thanks, loopy, will do as you did and use 1pint Pyrex bowl. This sounds like my sort of cooking...

When microwaves came out I had a subscription for those microwave recipe mags, bet absent wrote them!! But I got a great ring cake recipe and I used it for years... dont ask I have forgotten it

Ginger, with golden syrup melted (also in microwave) was my favourite.

We used to have some kind of sponge pudding done in the microwave every Saturday when the kids were at home. Chocolate, jam, curranty, the lot. (yum!) That was before the need to watch my weight.

I made a marmalade sponge pudding in the microwave last weekend and it was very nice indeed.

Sounds as if you will need a 2 pint mug to make loopylou's recipe!

And custard if it is more like a pudding.