Snuck a few posts in over the last week, but they were all failed pies. From the start of the project, failed bakes were included, simply because not everything goes according to plan. Mistakes happen and should be accepted. But, at some point, I realized I had been phoning it in for various reasons and wrote about it.
To quote Lazarus Lake: “You can't accomplish anything without the possibility of failure.”
Getting in a nice groove of resurrecting an archive post every three days….
This was the first major fail of the project was a strawberry pie. Part of me suspects strawberries changed over the last century, that older varieties were smaller, denser, and contained less moisture. Anyway, it was still tasty, even if messy.
#baking #bakingFail #strawberries #pie #strawberryPie #AmericanPie #pie!
One baking fail, one success 😜
Left my sourdough out for too long and it fermented too much. Still tastes very good.
The cake is a Guiness cake. The cake is not a lie!
I recently watched a short video about sourdough making and heard the expression "spelt is a diva".
Yesterday I found out that this is true, while baking a spelt sourdough bread. Although I used less water than usual the dough became "liquid" resulting in this #bakingfail #sourdough.
Still tastes awsome, though 😂
Sigh...was halving a recipe for enriched dough for experimental buns and didn't halve the yeast.
Just spent an hour trying to make my toaster oven sing opera. Don't ask, it's a long story involving burnt bread and existential dread. #bakingfail #creativechaos #ihatetheoven 🍞🎤🔥
Why does some white chocolate simply fail to melt? I did the usual shallow dish over pan of hot water and got this ....
I had some leftover sugar cookie dough in the freezer from xmas. For today's Suberb Owl / Super Bowl celebrations thought I'd try something different. I put rounds of cookie dough into a mini muffin pan and put a Rolo candy in the center. Well folks, they *could* be owl eyes. 🦉Really though I made butt holes. 😔 Or perhaps turd blossoms if you will. The jokes write themselves.
#SuperBowl
#Superb_Owl
#BakingFail
CAKE FAIL! Well, jokes on you, universe 🖕🏻 I covered it in glaze and am eating it anyway! Still tastes delicious! I feel like there’s some sort of life metaphor here, but whatever. (It’s the Smitten Kitchen olive oil chocolate cake recipe. When I turned it out on the cooling rack, it disintegrated. Rookie cake mistake.)
#cakefail #bakingfail
First #bakingfail of 2024.
Kinda Hilarious 😂
'Make your own jam croissants out of puff pastry rolls' they said.
'It will be easy', they said.
They were very, *very* wrong.
I call them lemon desperation bars because, after baking I realized I left the sugar out of the filling (credit an engrossing audiobook). I desperately tried to salvage something by drowning it in glaze.
Also, you'd have to be desperate to eat one.
I made a brioche yesterday (new to me but 🤷🏼♀️) It was easy enough-but the recipe called for 5 eggs & I had 4 so …1 loaf. Better anyway! It sits for 6+ hrs in the fridge but when it was ready to start rising, I was too tired to deal w it. So I left it overnight. This morning I started rising it & it looked great. I put it in the pans & baked it for the recommended time(30-40)
😭it was overbaked!
Then I remembered- I made 1 loaf - not 2 so the loaves were too small for that long #today #bakingfail
I still have no clue why the caramel failed, but there is no mistaking it when it crystalizes. We ended up going with a different tart tatin recipe, it's funny but the cooks illustrated baking book failed us with not enough illustration in the recipe #bakingfail
I can't believe this, but I have an update to my baking disaster.
I woke up to the smell of baking. My 11yo tried to make himself a mug cake brownie. Usually this is NDB, except we ran out of milk yesterday.
I asked him what he replaced he replaced it with.
"Nothing"
I asked him how it was, and in the understatement of the century he replied
"A bit dry"
I don't know if I'm going to be able to get the rest out without breaking the mug #parenting #bakingfail
LOL ah yes. 8 years ago I was making bread and accidentally turned off the oven somehow when I set the timer. The yeast had a party in the dark warm space. :-p
So embarassed as I had made a huge (~1500g) mass of sourdough for bread and pizza, as needed, this week.
Used *way, way* too much water with the wrong combo of flours (too much pizza flour). First baguette wouldn't brown (lmao!) and the pizza stuck to the pan so bad I considered throwing it away *with* the pan in a panic. 😬
The latter resulted in a 5 minute emergency dinner as the hungry little one was not real happy about it all.
No pics, too embarrassed. 🙃
There is no feasible way to pull out and tear a sheet of parchment paper and not disturb the kids practicing music in the next room...
I know this now...
So, two weeks ago I found a recipe that looked promising: orange caramel cardamom cake. I put together the spring form pan and went ahead. Caramel leak out the bottom. It was a mess, but the cake itself had promise. I googled how to fully seal springform pan with parchment and remade it last week. Caramel ran out the bottom. Last night’s version (in regular pan since a reread of recipe saw no mention of using springform🤔) looked good. Then realised oven was on broil . . . #bakingfail
