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Botched Up BAKING Vent

RinaRina — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:31:14 GMT

Have you ever botched up a cake or pie so badly that you HAD to just throw the whole thing away and not think about it because analyzing your mistake would prove you to be ... an idiot!

The worst part is waiting so long (baking) -- to see and taste your disaster.

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GCR18 — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:40:40 GMT

I don't bake, but I make a mean cupcake. I wanted to make some for my last chemo treatment in 2015. I was so excited. Everything had to be perfect. Cost me a bundle in supplies. I got everything out and made them. I'm not exactly sure what went wrong. I did the same thing I've done many times before, but something went terribly wrong. I was so upset, I threw out the cupcakes and unused supplies. I went to Panera Bread and got bagels instead. Haven't tried since.

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Snowpuppy — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:40:45 GMT

Lordy, girl! Where do I even begin????? 😂

And I consider myself an accomplished baker.

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MalteseMomma — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:42:40 GMT

not in baking but, I made a horrible soup,maybe 35 yrs ago ,(maybe more) I don't remember what it was ,cabbage soup or squash soup, something like that.

We all had a good laugh as we tried to eat it.......lol Thats when woks first became popular

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QVCkitty1 — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:43:00 GMT

I grabbed the wrong flour canister, and tried to make a pie crust with bread flour. The texture was all wrong and impossible to use. I felt so foolish.

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sabatini — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:52:26 GMT

Too many times to count!

The last time was at Christmas a few years ago. I was 100% pressed for time, so resorted to making a 'dump cake'....something I'd never tried before. I don't even like the name of them!

It went straight from the oven to the trash. Awful!

No offense to folks who like them. Maybe it's just me.

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OKPrincess — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:02:41 GMT

my sister and I botched up a cake as little girls ( wish I could remember our ages). While my aunt and uncle were napping we proceed to make a cake. This was when everything was made by scratch. We made two big mistakes: we used 1/2 cu salt instead of 1/2 tsp and used granulated sugar for the icing instead of confectionery sugar. We knew something was wrong when the cake was 1" high and then the icing ran all over the place. One of those precious memories.

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SXMGirl — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:13:14 GMT

I think that everyone who bakes has had at least one failure. I taking baking classes and hear the instructors tell stories about things that failed when they baked at home. If they make mistakes, then anyone can.

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Carmie — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:19:17 GMT

I have made fudge a few times that would not set up and harden. It stayed too soft and runny even though I used a candy thermometer.

I never had to throw it away. My DH ate it with a spoon.

A couple of year ago, I made a cheery pie from the cherries picked from my yard. During baking all of the liquid oozed out from between the crust and made a big mess in my oven. When the pie was done, the cherries were all there, but there was no filling with them. My DH ate it anyway, but it was as flat as a pancake and dry.

i have made both items hundreds of times with no problems... sometimes things just go wrong. I don’t worry about it.

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deepwaterdotter — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:20:11 GMT

My first pan of Pecan Shortbread Bars went terribly awry. All that butter and pecans wasted!

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SandPiper — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:22:32 GMT

My goodness I’ve lost count. I have found myself in the bakery too many times just hours before company arrives.

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RedTop — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:38:04 GMT

@Carmie,

Just FYI, adding a heaping teaspoon of cornstarch to the sugar when making fudge will insure firmness. A friend of mine swore she couldn’t make fudge; it was always soft enough to eat with a spoon. My cornstarch hint has been a lifesaver for her, and now she makes firm fudge all the time.

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on the bay — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:56:05 GMT

I guess what I thought were spectacular and imaginative "cakes" were in my mind only, because we started calling them avalanche cakes!😵-

They were big, colorful and I thought tasted pretty good Sometimes I would put ice cream in between the layers. I always tried really hard to make them look pretty but somehow they always started to turn into what looked like those long ago volcanic science projects.

Finally, one year when my sweet daughter was about 12, she said in her sweet voice:"Mom, could I have a store bought cake for my birthday this time?"

Well, bless her heart, of course I bought a store bought cake. You've never seen such a relieved and happy child on her birthday with her friends lol!

And that is the true story and the end of my avalanche cakes!

They looked kinda like this one-

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deepwaterdotter — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:14:53 GMT

@RedTop wrote:
@Carmie,
Just FYI, adding a heaping teaspoon of cornstarch to the sugar when making fudge will insure firmness. A friend of mine swore she couldn’t make fudge; it was always soft enough to eat with a spoon. My cornstarch hint has been a lifesaver for her, and now she makes firm fudge all the time.

And all this time I thought it had to do with beating it long enough before pouring into the pan to cool.

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GenXmuse — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 22:16:07 GMT

Lol. Yes indeedy do

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ECBG — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 22:30:41 GMT

I had made chocolate pound cakes as Christmas presents for friends. One had been in the oven for half an hour and our 18 yr old son came through the basement door right under me and slammed it! (I had stepped out on the deck to warn him JUST before he did it!!!). It sank like a stone!

Guess who scrubbed that pan?

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Group 5 minus 1 — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 23:29:18 GMT

I did that once with a dump cake-of all things. What a mess!

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shoptilyadropagain — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:18:57 GMT

Growing up I took 4-H and had to make cookies. I was doing a practice run at home one day and accidentally switched up the amounts needed for salt and sugar. I'm not a really a person who cares for desserts anyway and found my hatred for baking at an early age.

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Peaches McPhee — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 01:31:48 GMT

When I was a kid I put 1 cup salt into cookie batter rather than 1 cup sugar. I can still remember doing it and the reactions of those trying to eat a cookie later . . . .

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mousiegirl — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 04:50:03 GMT

@ncascade wrote:
I did that once with a dump cake-of all things. What a mess!

@Group 5 minus 1 You had to dump your dump cake?