Wow, a {DAILY TASK} on facebook last week caused a wave of discussion…. this was the task:
{DAILY TASK} Start stocking your freezer with homemade freezable baking treats (muffins, cookies or scrolls) ready for school lunch boxes. My plan for baking this week:
- Blueberry Muffins
- Choc Muffins
- Jam Drops
- Savoury Scrolls
Last week I got into school mode, waking up at 6.30am getting back into school routine in preparation for the kids returning to school on Monday. I usually wake up, shower then make lunches, instead I am baking for the freezer. Then I have the rest of the day to do as I please .
Readers were then requesting recipes and wanting more ideas of recipes they can use. So I asked everybody if they could share their freezer friendly recipes, and the response was amazing… 113 comments later and a great list to compile. Thankyou to each person for contributing, I really enjoy a recipe that is recommended and I truly appreciate you sharing them with all our readers. The recipes in the link below are all clickable links taking you to the original recipe or a printable version of the readers shared recipe.
I pop the frozen baked treat in their lunch box and by morning tea time it is defrosted and is as fresh as the day it was frozen.
More details can be found on how I organise and what containers I use in the freezer
Freezer Friendly Lunch box baking treats
Muffins
White chocolate and raspberry muffins
Chocolate choc chip banana muffins
Cookies
Another freezable cookie dough
Double choc and hazelnut cookies
Cakes
Other sweet treats
Chewy muesli bars (gluten-free)
Chocolate brownies (gluten and dairy free)
Lactose Intolerant
Blueberry muffins - using lactose free milk and dairy free marg
Savoury
Other ideas:
- This week I am back to school freezing, pikelets, & pizza muffins (savory muffins with tomato paste, ham, cheese, pineapple). We are from a gluten free household so sandwiches don’t work here, we are doing g/f pita breads, wraps, and muffins instead.
- Impossible Quiche cooked in muffin trays
- muesli slice, lamingtons and cheesemite scrolls
- 4 Ingredients, vegie smugglers, frost bite cookbook is great
- pikelets (buttered and jammed, packs of 4), choc chip oat slice, savoury muffins, and my first attempt at homemade cheesymite scrolls
- mini toad in a hole and freeze these for lunches as my kids are gluten-free i use frankfurters and cornflour
- I do a cheats way. I get pack mix blueberry muffins, use mini muffin trays, cook them up & freeze 6 in a bag together
- Scrolls are a hit here, pizza- tomato paste, cheese, ham and pineapple. Cheese & Vegemite, pesto, salami, semi dried tomatoes and cheese (these can be oily). I use a pizza base dough, the other ones are too ‘scone like’
- I cheat – I use the no name Coles vanilla cake mix and add soy milk and no egg product as my son has a milk and egg allergy, then I add fruit ( my kids love Banana and sultanas) then I make mini ones as they are a great size for little people … You can add whatever fruit you like- I added mango and passionfruit and they were yum… Cheats way but quick and easy
- Squeezy yoghurt from the shop can be frozen. It melts in the lunch box, but it’s still cold at lunch time.
- Tips on freezing cookie dough at A multifarous me
Reader tips:
- I make huge batches of biscuits and then freeze them, shaped ready to bake, but UNcooked. Freeze on baking trays and then transfer to tupperware or freezer bags. Bake individual batches as needed.
Questions:
- Does cooked puff pastry savoury scrolls freeze well? - Yes they do, they aren’t as crispy as they are fresh, but they are still freezeable. Melinda also recommends, with the cooked pastry, just spray with a little bit of water and reheat in oven!
Do you have a recipe you would like to share?
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