When Life Gives You Lemons... Make Bread!

My partner and I have recently bought our very first home. We love it, especially the giant backyard! Our lemon tree is prolific, but I generally don't like lemon flavour. It makes avoiding waste somewhat tricky! I happened to also have some frozen strawberries in my freezer from last season which needed to get used. I came across this recipe for Strawberry Lemon Bread by TastyOven, which was a huge hit at a family gathering. I like it because it has less sugar than many other recipes AND it uses olive oil instead of butter (one less thing for me to change!). I have made it a few times since then with varying results. This is today's rendition (the recipe is here):

I didn't have strawberries, so this is just Lemon Bread. It's such a simple recipe: combine dry ingredients, add wet ingredients, stir and bake. I still managed to muck it up. I forgot to add baking powder and turn my plain flour into self-raising flour. Doh! That is why the finished product is so flat. I also had to substitute the milk for yoghurt, as my milk had turned sour yesterday. I decided to add a half cup of dessicated coconut too, just for fun ;)

The cake turned out very dense and flat (thanks to the lack of rising agent), but very flavourful. Almost too flavourful for me! For the full recipe click here.