Homemade Fat Cakes

Suet/Fat balls are expensive aren't they. £2 a pop and in the cold spell the garden birds were getting through one a week. So this week I decided to make my own. I had a look round on the web and found some vague recipes and ideas but basically made it up...

1/3rd Vegetable Fat
2/3rd crushed peanuts, raisins, oatmeal and sunflower seeds

I melted the fat, mixed it all up then spooned into paper bun cases... et voila!
Once set I put a couple into my fat cage that dangles from the bird table and watched. Good news... the birds actually like them! All in all that probably cost me a pound to make about a months supply.... good eh!