This week I’ve been thinking a lot about baking. Many coeliacs seem to be budding Jamie Olivers – baking their own bread, cakes and biscuits. Sadly I’m not one of them. 

It’s not that I’m against baking, it’s just that I never seem to get time and when I do I really can’t be bothered. Even when the children were little, I found that only rainy days and school fetes could spur me into dusting off my cake tins. As far as I’m concerned, I spend enough time in the kitchen when I’m making the evening meals.

However, I am beginning to appreciate the benefits of a DIY approach. The homemade gluten-free cakes I have made (albeit using a Dietary Specials cake mix) do taste better than shop-bought versions.

So it was a shock to my husband when, this weekend, I made peanut butter squares from Nigella’s How to be a Domestic Goddess book. Ok, so it’s not really a cake but they are so simple to make that even I was happy to have a go and for ten little minutes of work I got 48 squares of chocolatey goodness. They are packed with sugar so no good for the diet but surprisingly that didn’t put me off at all.

For a while I wondered whether I was having a baking epiphany. Whether from now on my house would be filled with the smell of fresh baked bread? I wasn’t. Turns out I like my free time far too much. But if anyone is offering, mine’s a peanut butter square.

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