Macmillan Coffee Mornings are a great way to get friends and family over for tea and cake, and raise a bit of money for a good cause while you’re at it. So, why not get involved? In the Middle’s recipes couldn’t be easier, or tastier, so get that pinny on.

#1. Marble Cake

Ingredients

Eggs (5)

Granulated sugar (125g)

Vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)

Baking powder (1 teaspoon)

Butter (113g)

All purpose flour (128g)

Dark chocolate (125g)

White chocolate (125g)

Pinch of salt

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C, or 160°C fan, and grease an 8 inch cake tin.
2. Whisk the eggs and sugar together in a bowl, until you have a fairly stiff, white mix. Add the vanilla extract, pinch of salt and baking powder.
3. Melt butter in the microwave on a low heat. Add to the egg mixture slowly, and then fold in the flour with a spatula. Separate the mix into two smaller bowls.
4. Melt dark and white chocolate into two separate bowls, and set aside to cool slightly.
5. Add the dark chocolate into one of the bowls and the milk chocolate into the other mixture. Mix until fully incorporated.
6. Into your greased cake tin, pour in the milk chocolate mixture, and then slowly pour the dark chocolate mix over the top. Use a straw or spoon to marble the cake mix.
7. Pop into the oven. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until risen and cooked through.

#2. Scones

Makes 6 scones.

Ingredients

8 oz. self-raising flour

1 ½ oz. caster sugar

3 oz. soft butter or margarine

1 egg beaten into plain yoghurt, to make 5 fluid ounces

 

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, or 170°C degrees for a fan oven.
2. Sift the flour and sugar together.
3. Rub in the butter.
4. Add the egg and yogurt and then mix the ingredients together into a ball.
5. Put onto a floured board and cut into 6 equal rounds.
6. Place on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for approximately 15 minutes.
7. Serve with jam and clotted cream.

 

#3. Fruit Flapjacks

Ingredients

150g butter or margarine

50g golden syrup (or more is more in this case)

30g sugar (brown is best)

200g rolled oats

1 eating apple

A handful of blueberries

A handful of frozen raspberries

A handful of flaked almonds

Method

1. Preheat your oven to gas 5/190 degrees.
2. In a saucepan, over a medium heat, melt together the butter, syrup and sugar, stirring regularly to combine.
3. Remove from the heat, and stir in the oats and fruit.
4. Place into a greased brownie or sandwich tin, and smooth out. If you want around ten slices, you’ll need a fairly wide and shallow tin, but fat flapjacks, by no extent of the imagination, are a bad thing.
5. Sprinkle the top evenly with almonds
6. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Don’t worry if they are still soft when they come out of the oven, they will harden as they cool but retain all their moisture.
7. Cut into slices, as big or little as you do so wish.

 Emma Wray, Adeola Adeyemi and Katie Dawtry