Tell me about your baking disasters...
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Topic: Tell me about your baking disasters...
Posted By: Katherine
Subject: Tell me about your baking disasters...
Date Posted: 07 September 2010 at 11:02pm
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...and I'll put you in the draw to win a silicone jumbo cupcake mold (makes a cake 25x bigger than a regular cupcake), and some other worthy surprise goodies from the OHbaby! prize cupboard! Tonight I decided to make DH a birthday cake using the cake mold mentioned above. What a disaster. Burned 'round the edges, raw in the middle, a colossal waste of time and ingredients. I ended up chucking the whole thing into the compost bin and starting over with a plain round cake pan. I was about to chuck out the cake mold too, but I decided it would be much better off going to a friendlier and possibly more baking-savvy home than mine. So there you go. You, too, can make a giant cupcake cake. Maybe. And if you fail, at least you'll have some other goodies to make up for it. I'll close the draw in a week (11pm next Tuesday 14 September) and will put everyone who shares their baking disaster tale in the draw. |
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Posted By: fattykat
Date Posted: 07 September 2010 at 11:07pm
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Hmmmm.....every single baking experience I have had has been a disaster.
I've figured out I'm just not a baker....no matter how hard I try 
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Posted By: Mum_mum
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 7:50am
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I love making tarts (read love eating more like it) but can't for the life of me work out how to blind bake the case without burning it! Everytime I try I always end up with a burnt crust and an undercooked middle. Usally these tarts end up getting fed to the poor chooks! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: pumpkino
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 7:58am
| Last time I baked a cake I had to bake 2 - because I lost track of how much sugar I put in the first one. The thing is, I was only supposed to put in one cup - who loses track when counting to one?? When the cake was "cooked" it was abundantly clear that I had put twice as much sugar in as I was supposed to - a caramelly gooey mess which had to be dipped down the drain. I blame baby brain! |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:04am
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The baking part is fine
The icing part is a damn fiasco! Too much thick, too thin, a big bright green gooey mess all over my sons birthday cupcakes yesterday! GROSS! So much for my beautiful swirly cupcakes with flash tupperware squeeze it I bought! Just a big mess.... |
Posted By: Jaune
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:04am
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I baked a cake for my niece's first birthday...was so proud of it. Had made it in a butterfly mould and it came out of the oven looking just lovely. So lovely in fact that I absentmindedly put the candles straight into it...and then watched them all bend and buckle from the heat of the cake.
Unfortunately when I removed the candles the bit that was in the cake remained imbedded. I still used the cake...we just cut around the waxy bits!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:05am
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does pavlova count? i have had to make emergency pavlovas when the one i baked for xmas was as flat as a pancake... of course i didnt realise till xmas morning cause i had left it in the oven overnight!
then there was the cake i was making for one of the kids birthdays, the cake turned out well but when making the butter icing i forgot to put in the icing sugar! i wondered why i didnt have as much as i thought i should have after i added the colour. i blamed the MIL for that one cause she was talking to me as a did it! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:23am
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I have only ever tried to make hokey pokey biscuits once, and i have no idea what i did wrong, but did you know that the mixture spreads really well, and drips down through the over door and makes a really big puddle on the floor.
Took a few hours to clean up as it wasnt until i went to check them after the time frame that i realised what had happened, and they set up real quick on the cold floor, and set in the oven...have never tried to make them since...lol I have to say thats my one true baking disaster, as i think im pretty lucky in teh baking department...becasue what i very as a disaster everyone says they taste really good and the baking disappears really quickly. Although i have to say im having a few disasters at the moment, trying to get my gluten free baking to work...but its still edible ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:25am
Tip for blind baking......you put the pastry in the pan...poke it full of holes in the bottom, line it with baking paper, so its all covered (or tinfoil), fill with some rice, and bake for 15mins, then take off the paper and rice and put back in for 10mins if it needs to be browned up a little bit. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Hannahbil wrote:Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:27am
| I was cooking a banana cake the other day with some sad looking bananas. I was wondering why it was taking so long to cook over 2 hours. When it finally seemed cooked I realised that I had the oven on keep warm instead of bake the entire time. the cake was all liquidy and gross so it ended up being thrown. |
Posted By: Lexidore
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:33am
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My parents used to loathe it when I wanted to bake.... I would always miss out an ingredient or just make a giant mess!! I do a lot better (most of the time) now!! ------------- 
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Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:35am
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I made banana muffins the other day, which are Kylahs favorite. She wouldnt touch them, told me they were yukky! Turns out i forgot to put two ingredients in them! My bad! ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:39am
I tried to make melting moments once. I think I forgot to add the flour....Anyway they melted all right! All over the oven elements. It even started a small fire.  ------------- 
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Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 9:29am
| I've done the fire thing too - was making carrot cake muffins, and the mixture just exploded all over the oven and caught fire! |
Posted By: tishy
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 9:48am
Not baking but the first time I made Thai Green Curry I added the entire JAR. That was a hot hot dinner 
For baking I made a chocolate cake with the girls but forgot to add the 2 cups of sugar  They had fun with the mixing though
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 9:56am
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I'm a pro at leaving the baking powder out of scones... I've done it plenty of times. Not so nice.
The best I've heard is my cousin, though - he misread the recipe and put two cups of baking powder into a microwave cake instead of 2 tsp. That was one foam-filled microwave -------------   
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Posted By: CarleyRose
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:01am
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I don't really know if this counts, but everytime i bake a cake i have to smother it in icing (which usually ends up too runny or can't spread it) to avoid anyone seeing the burnt bits. Usually my cakes go to the dogs...or arent bad if you heat them up in the microwave so they go softer...
...also tried to make spun sugar like they do on ready steady cook, and some how it wouldn't do the spinny thing so i got all sh*ty adn decided to was the pot and get rid of it...only to use cold water!! Everything just went in the bin! ...but i must say i am slowly getting better hehe ------------- TTC Sept08 July10 FS APP ICSI#1 BFN-No frosties ICSI#2 BFN-2 Frosties FET-8th August - BFP 20/8/12 http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:20am
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I accidentally used baking soda instead of icing sugar when making butter icing. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:25am
Also, cook it on a preheated baking tray (ie put the tray in the oven whilst the oven is warming up), the heat from the tray underneath helps to cook the bottom of the case. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:30am
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I can bake whatever I want except muffins. They simply just never turn out! They're always either undercooked in the middle or they don't rise... Even the ones you make out of the box lmao! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:39am
Hehe these are funny 
I've had a lot of baking disasters - it usually tastes better than it looks though
But a couple of weeks ago I was making a cake for coffee group. The recipe said 40-45mins, after which time it looked cooked so removed it from the oven and left it in the tin for 10mis as per the recipe. When I went back and looked at it the top had sunken in and the middle was still liquidy! So back in the oven for another 20mins, and still liqiudy. Finally after 110mins of cooking time, the middle looked more solid, so decided to give it 10 more mins in the oven. Then I got it out to find it was burnt to a smitherine 
Needless to say I bought something to take to coffee group ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 11:30am
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DS9 and I were making chocolate cupcakes in the weekend, left the bowl unsupervised while I checked the oven and DS2 decided it would be a great idea to pour half a box of baking powder into the mixture! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4 
 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 11:31am
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I'm with you on the muffins, Lil_Nic. Mine always turn out super-rubbery. I undermix them to the nth degree, but they still turn out rubbery no matter what recipe I try -------------
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Posted By: Panda289
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 12:20pm
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i have definitely improved on the baking front over the years but i attempted to make meringues a couple of years back only to have them completely flattened and burnt when i brought them out! My arm was so sore from whipping the egg whites as well...
Another time i attempted butterscotch or toffee (cant remember which) and that just ended up a buttery liquid since then have made plenty thats been fine though! Not going near meringues at all..------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 1:53pm
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I make good muffins - you need 2 bowls one for dry and one for wet ingredients - I tip the dry into the wet and using a big rubber spatula only lightly mix them using a big sweeping motions in and around the bowl. It doesn't matter if there are little bits of flour not fully mixed in. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 2:26pm
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Perhaps I mix it too much then... lmao! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 3:14pm
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I made a batch of cookes once that went horribly wrong.. I still don't know what happened or where I messed up the ingredients, but every nice little mound of dough I placed on the tray spread out and merged into each other. They ended up spreading over the whole tray (no gaps) and dripped down the sides..
I'm better now though. Honestly. *darts eyes* |
Posted By: RedHeadDuck
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 4:11pm
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I'm real good at baking. These days, I even profesionally wrap it. I even use pretty wrapping so it says things like "Arnotts" on the front!
Last time I made muffins. I managed to miss something out. It's a kids cook book, and I still managed to stuff it up. They were very heavy muffins, kinda like little mud cakes! |
Posted By: millymollymandy
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 7:27pm
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Not baking but a disaster nonetheless...
When I was learning to cook I made mum and dad French onion soup. I wrote the receipe down from cooking class and studiously followed the instructions. It looked beautiful. Only my handwriting was so bad I had misread 1t (teaspoon) of sugar as 1C (cup). It was in edible and 25 years later I still haven't lived it down. |
Posted By: Shelt
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 7:49pm
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One of my particularly memorable disasters was when I was making corn fritters and added icing sugar instead of flour. The mixture bubbled and then overflowed all over my bench
I also made apple mini muffins a while ago and forgot to put in the apple and the sultanas. I didn't even notice till I ate one - it was so bland and awful. It was then that I noticed the "extra" ingrediants sitting on the bench ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: oscarboo
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:08pm
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I made a chocolate cake that we took to the IL's. I never had any while we were there and they were sitting there eating it and saying how nice it was. When I finally got round to trying it the next day I discovered it tasted horrible as I had only added 1 not 2 cups of sugar!! Can't believe they ate it and said it was nice. I feed the rest to the birds ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: tropics
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:51pm
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most of my baking turns into a disaster!
I made afgans once with salt instead of sugar and even the birds wouldnt eat them! Cakes burn on the outside and are raw in the middle and are slumped in the middle - always a distaster! I have tried baking numerous things for my 2 year old and he never eats them!!! turns out its my baking as each time he bakes with others he eats lots of others home baking! - time to give up I think! ------------- http://lilypie.com">    [/url]
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 9:44pm
Usually I'm really good at my baking... but I was making a train cake for a friends little boy, and wondered why it looked very well done on the top, but the skewer was coming out with raw cake batter still on it, well after recommended cooking time had lapsed... it wasnt until I had the bright idea of tipping it out and putting it back in the tin upside down that i realised my faux pas... I'd left the oven on grill by mistake 
Goes without saying that its now the first thing i check when pre-heating ovens  ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:25pm
Hehe, does this count as a baking disaster?
In my defence, the individual puddings I was making actually turned out OK!! -------------   
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Posted By: lil_lease
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 11:43pm
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ROFL Queenbean, I really think that takes the cake
What on earth happened? ------------- Antony, gone but never forgotten 2-4-2010 
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Posted By: lil_lease
Date Posted: 08 September 2010 at 11:49pm
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Umm, my baking disasters.
I made banana cake once and used bananas that I had frozen and defrosted, but I didnt mash them. Tried to bake it in a ring cake tin. It ended up sticking everywhere, it fell apart when I tried to tip it out of the tin, and it tasted horribly bland and not like a banana cake at all! ------------- Antony, gone but never forgotten 2-4-2010
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 10:32am
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My baking (when I do it) is fine. I can't do the simple things like scones and pikelets. My scones are moon rocks and my pikelets just don't do what they are meant to do, so the boys always ask dad to make pikelets now instead of me. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 2:24pm
Argh me too! I am perfectly capable of making these really delicious scrolls that require hours of kneading, rolling etc etc but for the life of me can't do a decent scone. Muffins are hit and miss as well, especially savoury muffins. |
Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 2:28pm
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I tried to make an eggless choc cake for mums bday which was meant to be a practice for nephews bday (he has allergies) well the substitute of golden syrup made it very crispy indeed and it didn't rise like it normally does. Then I tried to ice with butter cream icing, the cake was too warm apparently because I ended up with melted butter in the middle you know when you melt butter and its just before it starts to clarify yep ontop of the cake ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 2:38pm
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I think the exploding oven deserves to win.
I made a pavlova in a fan forced oven. Some hit the front door. What was left just lent over. DH called it the "leaning tower of pavlova". It was edible but the fruit and cream slid off. Until I found betty crockers, cakes were a bit of a mission for me. But BC rocks and you can burn it and it still turns out good. I like no-nonsense cooking. Non of this beat it a certain way stuff. |
Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 3:30pm
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mine is more cooking than baking...
was making prawn crackers one day before i made a stirfry... anyway after the prawn crackers i went to wash the pan (yeah i dunno why either) and just as i put the pan under the tap, i remembered not to coz oil explodes, but not in time to get out of the way of the drip, well i turned and tried to get it out the door, but it exploded all in the doorway and got some on my face. burnt my eyelid pretty good. hmmm also we had a wonky oven at a flat i used to live in... i went to make a double decker mud cake for my bros bday.... iced the first layer so it would stick, put the second layer on, and it just slid off and broke apart all over the bench. so i left it there and put a note on it and said help yourself to my flatties. by the time i got hom the bench was just about licked clean lol. |
Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 5:33pm
Not really too sure lil_lease, they think maybe the oven door was faulty? Gave me a hell of a fright though, I was standing in the kitchen when it happened. -------------
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 6:24pm
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OMGosh Lan!!!!!!! How freaky!!!!!!! Glad you weren't hurt (and glad the puddings turned out ok )
Pepsi, my cookies always end up merging into each other lol. I read to put the mixture in the fridge for a while before baking it but haven't tried that yet ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: JadeC
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 7:18pm
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I'm another one with doubling ingredients! We had a family competition cooking something with blueberries we'd picked on holiday, I doubled the sugar somehow and the whole thing turned into a solid block!! I can't even remember what it was supposed to be, I'm obviously repressing bad memories!! ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: 4thtymlucky
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 7:56pm
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When I was at uni I was awesome at making Chocolate eclairs (edmonds recipe) and chocolate afghans - that was 20 years ago..now that I'm married with children, they've never tasted that baking only my scones/rocks..lol..and the odd cake I will bake using the box (just add water/milk variety) ..I would sincerely love to get back to the eclairs and afghans though....
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 9:10pm
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Oh my God, queenbean, I might have to award you a consolation prize if I don't draw your name, because that is just... I have no words!!!!!!!!! Definitely counts as a baking disaster!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 11:25pm
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For some of the ladies in here that sound similar to me.
I bought edmonds scone mix. Just add water and they are really nice. Best thing I have ever bought and we have scones for lunch in the weekends now. Dh thinks I am very domestic. |
Posted By: Lexidore
Date Posted: 10 September 2010 at 7:11am
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Haha Kiwi2, I once used that scone mix and ended up with rock hard pancake scones -------------
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Posted By: boys.boys.boys.boys
Date Posted: 10 September 2010 at 3:30pm
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Love these stories!!
Dont know if either of these counts but... My Aunty made a standard chocolate cake once and forgot to put in the flour!!
And the other day, I went to bake something, turned on the oven to heat up and wondered why there was smoke pouring out everywhere, turned out my dear kids had stuffed a teatowel right to the back and it was currently sitting against the elements and very on fire!! I think I gave up baking that day!! hmmm, I cant remember any actual baking disasters at this stage which isnt coz there hasnt been any, I think it must be something about the supressed memories thing!! ------------- 4 boys!! 7 years, 5 years, 2 years and 8 weeks... |
Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 10:28am
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I usually buy self raising flour but had some regular flour in the cupboards from making bread. I used it to bake a cake and totally forgot to add baking powder. It was as solid as a rock. I suggested we try to eat it as it had a lot of butter and brown sugar in it and I thought it might be fudgy like biscuts or a brownie. It wasn't!!! The flavour was okay but it was just too dense.
We decided to abandon the project and throw it to the birds. DP made me check their weren't any birds outside before I threw it out the back door to our usually place where the birds come to eat our toast crusts etc because he was worried if it hit one I'd kill it with the impact. I couldn't even break it up into pieces it was that dense. Three of four days later even the birds hadn't eaten it so I had to go and fetch this dried out lump of cake off the lawn and throw it in the wheelie bin. DD and DP just kept rolling their eyes at me saying, 'we told you NOTHING was going to eat it.' ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 8:08pm
I read this to DH, who said it was a good thing the birds didn't eat it, they might not have been able to take off again -------------
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 9:16pm
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Where to start......
A recent one - I was making my first gluten free bread, the recipe said to bake for 25mins, so I checked it then and it was still runny as anything. So I put it in for another 20mins, still runny. Added another 10mins and did the skewer test, pulled it out of the oven and when I went back to flip it out of the tin the topping came off alright and the bottom half was still a gluggy runny mess. Yuck!!! -------------  
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Posted By: NewPhoenix
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 7:22am
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 12:54pm
| i did once manage to tip the oven forward while baking and bent the door and the oven trays. was very lucky that i was not cooking anything on the stove top, and thankgoodness for my daddy coming to the rescue and saving my oven. |
Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 4:44pm
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I too have done the candles in the hot cake and the flat pavlova for Christmas lunch (ended up making two and putting them one on top of the other ), the chocolate chip cookies that spread and joined together to make one giant cookie, the slice that burns on the edges but doesn't cook in the middle, the tins that I forgot to grease....and said cake gets turned into a pudding...Been there done it all lol and feel all you other ladies pain and suffering - but I still bake and still love it. Most of all I enjoy "mixing" with my girl and teaching her everything I know ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 4:47pm
ROFL Oh no!! ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 10:43pm
Yep, and yes the family were worried that the birds would eat it and not be able to take off afterwards either. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 16 September 2010 at 2:36pm
| So did I miss the winner announcement? Just curious to know who it was ;) |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 19 September 2010 at 4:52pm
I am also curious
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 10:06am
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Sorry, guys, I got caught up in finalising Issue 11 (we go to print today). I'll draw the winner now! :) |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 10:20am
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All right, without further ado... The winner (courtesy of random.org) is post #27 -- Pepsi! Pepsi, if you could please PM me your address, I'll have your prize in the post to you later this week (just as soon as I can escape from the clutches of finalising files for the printer).
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Posted By: Lexidore
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 11:53am
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Haha Yumi thats awesome! -------------
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 11:58am
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Congrats Yumi!!
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 12:22pm
Haha YAY!! Thanks so much that totally made my day 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 12:36pm
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Congrats Yumi ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 21 September 2010 at 4:05pm
Congrats Yumi!!!!!  ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Beachgirl23
Date Posted: 14 October 2010 at 11:00am
If anyone's ever tried spun sugar and not prepared their kitchen to deal with all the flying toffee, they'll know what I mean by disaster!!!  Lets just say a lot of damp cloths and picking toffee off appliances afterwards
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