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Katherine 
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Posted: 07 September 2010 at 11:02pm |
...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.  Who's first?
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fattykat
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Posted: 07 September 2010 at 11:07pm |
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: 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!
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Posted: 08 September 2010 at 7:58am |
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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!
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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....
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Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:04am |
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! 
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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!
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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
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Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:25am |
 Hannahbil wrote:
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! |
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.
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Posted: 08 September 2010 at 8:27am |
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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.
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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: 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!
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~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~
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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: 08 September 2010 at 9:29am |
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I've done the fire thing too - was making carrot cake muffins, and the mixture just exploded all over the oven and caught fire!
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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: 08 September 2010 at 9:56am |
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: 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
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Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:20am |
I accidentally used baking soda instead of icing sugar when making butter icing. Now I make sure I label everything in my pantry clearly. One white powdery thing is not a substitute for the other.
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Posted: 08 September 2010 at 10:25am |
Kazzle wrote:
Hannahbil wrote:
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! |
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. |
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.
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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!
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