Save money when baking: Delicious cake recipes under five euros

Quality does not have to be expensive.

With these tips and a delicious jam and crumble cake recipe, you can bake delicious pastries even on a small budget.

Would you like to bake something tasty but forego expensive frills?

That goes well: With our tips you can easily

save money when baking

too

.

Many sheet cakes *, Gugelhupfe and Co. can be easily prepared with ingredients that cost less than five euros.

And of course they are tasty anyway.

Tips for cheap cakes: How to save money on baking

1. Rely on

recipes with just a few ingredients

, so you can often get away with it cheaper than buying 1,001 new ingredients.

In addition, these recipes are usually particularly quick and easy.

It's a win-win situation.

Here are our favorite cake recipes with just a few ingredients:

• simple cake made from three ingredients

• Hazelnut cake with only three ingredients

• quick chocolate cake made from three ingredients without flour

2. Particularly suitable for inexpensive baking: clever

recipes with puff pastry

.

The pastries are ready in a flash and puff pastry from the refrigerated shelf doesn't cost much.

Just spread the topping of your choice on top, roll up and bake.

Delicious sweet recipes with puff pastry include:

• Nutella puff pastry rolls with crumble

• quick apple turnovers from the sandwich maker

• Apple cinnamon snails

3. Rely on

classic recipes from grandma's bakery

.

Besides butter, flour, sugar and eggs, they usually contain hardly any other ingredients.

This means that they are also cheap to prepare - and still taste delicious.

From crumble cakes to marble cakes to the classic cold dog, you will make many eaters happy at the cake table with a small budget.

4. If you

want fruit cake

: use seasonal fruit!

Then the fruits of choice can often be bought cheaply and develop their best aroma.

In summer, for example, there is nothing wrong with a fresh strawberry cake.

In winter, depending on the recipe, you can sometimes use the frozen version of the fruit.

Also delicious:

Recipe for quick strawberry cake - an absolute must in summer.

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It's that easy to bake a cheap sheet cake with jam and crumble.

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Save money when baking: Recipe for simple jam crumble cake from the tray

Ingredients for the dough:

• 250 g butter

• 200 g of sugar

• 4 eggs (size M)

• 275 g flour

• 2 teaspoons of baking soda

• 600 g jam or jam of your choice (strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange etc.)

• Butter for greasing

Ingredients for the crumble:

• 200 g soft butter

• 350 g flour

• 200 g of sugar

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try

:

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Bake cheap: Recipe for jam crumble cake from the tray

Take the butter and eggs out of the refrigerator about 30 minutes beforehand so that they can reach room temperature.

Preheat the oven to 200 ° C top / bottom heat (180 ° C convection) and grease a baking sheet with butter.

For the dough, beat the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until frothy.

Keep stirring and gradually adding the eggs, which you stir in well.

Mix the flour and baking powder and sift both onto the butter, sugar and egg mixture.

Mix everything well.

Spread the dough evenly on the baking sheet.

For the crumble mix the butter with flour and sugar and work it into crumble dough with your hands.

Spread the jam or jam of your choice on the dough on the tray and spread the crumble over the top.

Bake the crumble jam cake in the oven (middle) for about 30 minutes.

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