What can I bake?

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Im slowly recovering from a mental health crisis at the weekend and I thought I could bake something, but I have no idea what! Sweet or savoury, I don't really mind. I love lemon, not a fan of chocolate flavoured food though.

Any suggestions?

Yesterday I made a lovely coconut tray bake and a summer fruit loaf. I had some strawberries in the freezer that needed using up. They are both jolly yummy and easy. I like a tray bake, just chuck it all in and your done rather than having to put it all together afterwards, means you can have a warm slice too.

A tray bake is a great idea, is the coconut one a sponge cake with jam and coconut on top? Or am I thinking of the wrong thing?

I have basic baking ingredients and I can get most other things easily enough.

Lemon drizzle cake. That always gives me a lift. It is easy as well.

Oh I love scones, savoury and fruit. Fairly easy to make too!

Lemon drizzle cake is one of my absolute favourites

I made these Jam Drops yesterday (strawberry jam instead of raspberry though) and they were bloomin’ lovely. Kind of tasted like jam rolypoly in biscuit form. You could do them with lemon curd too which I reckon would be equally as yummy

A classic sponge. Simple, beautiful, satisfying and easy! 2eggs, same weight butter, SR flour, sugar plus zest of a lemon and some lemon juice-about half a lemonsworth? Beat butter and sugar til pale, add eggs (it will look like sick), start to fold in flour and it’ll come good.
Bake in two tins (baking parchment on the bottom of the tins guarantees no stick, buttered grease proof prob ok too) til golden and just starting to pull away from the side of the tins.
Make some lemon buttercream -roughly equal icing sugar and butter, plus more lemon zest and sone juice -you make need to eat a lot to taste it to perfection! -ready for when the cakes cool.
Sandwich together, dust with icing sugar and use the peeler to make sone curls of lemon zest if you can bear to wait. Make nice cup of tea, cut slice of cake on a nice plate. Feel proud of your resilience (and cake).

Do you want simple or do you want distraction? I really like making bread when I’m a bit stressed because it’s so absorbing when you do it.

This is a pretty simple focaccia with lemon. I found it in a Lakeland catalogue of all places years ago and it’s really lovely.

blog.lakeland.co.uk/recipe/focaccia-with-black-olives/

Mini tarts with sweet pastry cases, then jam/lemon curd/nutella/mincemeat and plain sponge or frangipane on top.

Microwave fudge.

Condensed milk flapjacks.

This was the coconut one.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/double-choc-coconut-traybake

I didn't make the ganache for the top I just added chocolate chips but it would work very well without any chocolate if you didn't fancy it.

I hope you are felling better, it's a shit time at the moment.

Good old fashioned bread pudding. Very therapeutic getting your hands in there to squish it all together!

Oaty biscuits similar to hobnobs:

katykicker.com/homemade-oat-biscuits/

Thay are delicious dunked in an afternoon cuppa! You can throw any additions in too like raisins or nuts etc and best of all they are really easy and quick to make!