Becca's Lockdown Bakes

Lockdown due to COVID-19 means my dad's gotten used to a constant supply of cakes! A few of the things I've made (all gluten free as mum's a coeliac):

Carrot and Parsnip Music Cupcakes

It was my cousin's 21st and she's massively musical so I made (and delivered) some cupcakes adapted from a carrot cake recipe.

Gin & Tonic Cake

Mum loved her birthday cake from BBC Good Food. With gin and tonic water as ingredients, it made for a more special bake that was refreshing on the sunny day!

Coffee & Walnut Cake

I used Delia's all-in-one recipe so this cake was super quick to make (and went down really well despite being on the drier side).

Raspberry & Passion Fruit Cake

A fruity bake, slightly more involved, but went down very well! I followed this recipe from Lorraine Elliot, but adapted it because of what I had in the house and have thrown in some metric units.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cake

This one went down extremely well and definitely my favourite of the lockdown (but that might be due to it's chocolatey nature). This recipe from Budgens (!!) is well worth a try and produces a delicious and moist cake.

Rhubarb and Almond Cake

We had rhubarb in the garden and instead of the usual crumble - I made this! It was deliciously tangy and looked cool.

Red Velvet Cake

I love a Red Velvet cake but surprisingly hadn't tried to bake it before. I found this Jamie Oliver recipe and a tub of buttermilk. The distinctive chocolate cake didn't disappoint and the cream cheese icing is DIVINE!!!

Chocolate banana bread

Banana bread appears to be the lockdown staple, so I had to make it at least once!! We had a load of bananas so I made this - it was real yummy with the addition of cinnamon and chocolate making a change from a bog standard banana bread.

Fruit Scones

I used a National Trust recipe and added some raisins. My coeliac mum definitely enjoyed having a gluten free scone!

Hazelnut Parsnip Cakes

My first venture into parsnip cake, I was originally sceptical at putting parsnip in cake, but these cakes were delicious and not dissimilar to carrot cakes. They felt healthy too - I used a small amount of gluten free flour and blitzed hazelnuts in a food processor to form the bulk of the cakes.

Sticky Lemon Cake

Another quick and easy bake, the way the lemon syrup is poured on (and holes poked into the cake) makes it super moist and very flavoursome.

Orange & Mini Egg Cookies

Using this as a basis, I added about zest 3/4 of an orange to a half batch and used mini eggs (in various stages of being chopped up). They went down well.

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