A real halfbakery

This might be baked in other parts of the world. It isn't here.

I love the smell of baking bread - it fills the whole house with that domestic warm fuzzy feeling. But I can't bake. And I just don't have the time.

When the mother-in-law comes round, I would LOVE to just say, “I've just baked some fresh bread/scones. Let me just get them out the oven. Can I get you some tea?”

My suggestion is a bakery that only sells raw dough and other unfinished stuff so you can just pop it in the oven at home and bake it. This is the easiest part of cooking, but gives you the satisfaction of making it yourself and gives that wonderful warm bread smell.

I googled it and all I can find is frozen bread dough, which you have to defrost; and you also get those boxes of cake mix - but you still need to add milk and eggs and butter and mix and kneed it, so there's a lot of work involved.

I say, you just walk in, pick up a loaf of bread in a disposable baking tin and an unbaked cake and take them home to your preheated oven.

Perfect for: impressing first dates, busy moms with nagging kids and impressing mother inlaws.