Baking Lessons wanted

The Mongolian women at the bible study we attend have ask me if I will teach them to bake.  Baking is a mysterious, magical thing to these women whom have only owned an oven for 5 years at the most.  They sell pretty cakes here, but they taste like a sponge smeared with Crisco- absolutely no flavor.  So, this is a fun opportunity, but very challenging also as I am met with the lack of availability of ingredients and supplies.  For instance, lets get down to basics, in order to bake a cake you need cake pans -not available.  We have the ingredients for a basic, yellow cake, but not cocoa for chocolate.  Next, the icing, this is s biggie, no powdered sugar, and still, no cocoa.  SO cakes, pretty much out of the question.  Move on to cookies.  We can make sugar cookies, but one major ingredient that they can't get is shortening, this is a major ingredient in most cookie recipes.  These ladies are POOR.  Most are not married, or married to a drunk who doesn't have a job.  I am trying to come up with ideas that use ingredients that they might have or can easily get for a reasonable price.  This is REALLY difficult......I haven't even factored in the fact that I have to change any recipe from English to Metric measures, and then translate it into Mongolian.  The fun never ends.  lets get cookin.