Today's Secret's - Baking a cake - yum - tips to save you time and money

For a crunchy topping to fruit pies and crumbles, save all the left over bits from cereal and sprinkle on top before baking.

Apple in brown sugar will stop it clumping or going hard.

Add one tablespoon per egg to make meringue stretch further.

Make your own piping bag out of foil.

To bring out the taste of chocolate in a cake add a few granules of coffee.

Save time and dough when baking biscuits. Roll them into a long sausage shape and then cut into disc's. To bake cookies for free, put them on a baking tray in your car on the dashboard. If the day is very hot (Over 25 degrees) the cookies will bake in about an hour.

Make sure cutters are totally dry after use or else they can go rusty. Put them in the oven as it is cooling to dry them out after washing.

Reuse a cake board, turn it over or cover it in foil.

Spread a little butter on the underside of your cake pieces before you sandwich them together, you can then add less jam as the cake will not absorb it.

Butter cream will keep for two or three weeks in a covered container in the fridge.

To make cakes extra light and fluffy whisk the egg whites before adding and add a spoon of warm water to the mixture just before baking.

There are so many tips that I might have to do a part two of this. Lastly if you use olive oil rubbed around your cake tin instead of butter your cake will be less likely to stick.

To stop cake mixture from sticking to the spoon and wasting it, coat the spoon in milk before use.