What type of stress baker are you?
Weighing flour, separating eggs, whipping buttercream: all exceptionally therapeutic in times of great stress and uncertainty. Does that apply to you too? Find out what type of stress baker you are and discover which baked treat will have the optimal relaxing effect for you.
You feel completely panicked
The news really gets to you. You listen to every press conference, sometimes even twice, and you know the RIVM measures by heart. At night, you lie awake worrying about your parents, your friends, your children or yourself. If you’re being completely honest, you can’t see how this will ever turn out all right.
Baking advice: your mind is working overtime, so it’s high time to steer your thoughts in another direction. Bake a classic apple pie and focus all your attention on peeling the apples and kneading the dough.
It’s just a little flu, right?
There are always a few jokers like this around. We don’t know whether you’re deliberately burying your head in the sand or genuinely don’t understand why everyone is making such a fuss, but one thing is clear: your nonchalant behavior is scaring the living daylights out of everyone. You can shrug off everything if you want, but that picnic in the park was obviously a bad idea, and spontaneously dropping in for coffee with your elderly neighbors? Not cool! Make it up to them: bake madeleines and hang them on the doorknob. To apologize. And: keep your distance—one and a half meters, okay!
If I hear ‘mama’ one more time today, I’m going to hurt someone
You look on jealously at the Facebook posts about Netflix series, book clubs and online drinks. Just for a moment, because then someone is pulling at your trouser leg again. No football indoors, don’t put your scented markers up your nose and don’t stick clay in your math workbook, why does the cat have glitter in its fur and how on earth did all the Lego end up in the toilet? This homeschooling is going nowhere; you’ll be happy if all the minors are still breathing by the end of the day. Baking? When? Oh wait, if you put the kids to work with this super-simple recipe, you can quietly play Candy Crush in your bedroom.
Comfort food doesn’t always help
Someone close to you is ill. Seriously ill, perhaps even. You’re sad about it. You can’t be together, hug each other tightly or even have a quick chat. How are you supposed to deal with that? You won’t find a solution among the self-raising flour and cocoa powder. And some painful feelings simply can’t be soothed with food. But since crying on the couch won’t solve anything either, you might as well make something. Something delicious, to be a little kind to yourself. Like these chocolate pancakes with mint ganache. Stay strong.
Being alone is really lonely
Normally, you manage perfectly well on your own, but now you’ve transformed from a happy single into a weeping willow in just a few weeks. Is it still the weekend, or Monday again? If only you’d gotten a dog or cat after all—at least there would be someone to chat with. A complicated project gives you a little structure again. Have you ever baked your own bread, with a sourdough starter? You can actually think of such a starter as a housemate. A demanding housemate, but still: you have something to do again.
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