So many lovely fresh berries around right now. I made a berry tart. The pastry went wrong as pastry often does! But it tastes good! #baking #pie #berrypie #bakingfail #berries #summerberries #beginnerbaker

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

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So I'm stupid. I just baked some cranberry orange muffins, but I forgot to grease the fricken muffin pan, so now they're stuck to the pan, and when I tried to get them out, they broke. #BakingFail

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...

#BakingFail

Damn. #bakingfail

My grandmother left me two recipes for a Lady Baltimore cake. I tried one today and it was an absolute nightmare. I am not sure anyone is going to eat this thing. We will see how it tastes—but I am not optimistic. I’ll post photos when I get over being annoyed about it. #baking #bakingfail

I had a small disagreement with the Bundt pan about how it prefers to be greased to release a cake. The second attempt was much more successful. Happy 12th birthday to my kiddo. #mamaturgy #baking #bakingfail

That cake I made that one time... (I have done better, both before and since but sometimes it's just not your day.) #bakingfail #blobfish

Oh dear, back to the drawing board...
#sourdough
#sourdoughbaking
#sourdoughbread
#breadbaking
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I have probably made hundreds of loaves of bread in my life... today, for the first time, I forgot the yeast. 😅 I was wondering why it was taking so long to rise... and then it occurred to me I never added yeast. Gonna try to recover it. Wish me luck!
#baking #fails #BakingFail #bread #breadmaking #oops

So todays baking adventures are NOT going well, but … that happens!

But the Quiche Lorraine is in the oven. On a tray because it was leaking slightly - oops!

Too much mixture for the shallow shortcrust shell (I could have used a smaller tin without the removable base, but I was not thinking ahead) has meant that I could be in for the dreaded… soggy bottom!

But I don’t care. I’m baking, I’m figuring out what to change next time.

And we’ll eat it anyway, I expect.

#GreatBritishBakeOff #SoggyBottom #quiche #BakingFail #Cooking#Baking #NotEnoughPastry

Why do silicone baking supplies exist? Is it just cos they look nice when new? They are terrible #bakingfail

Well, the Honey Jumbles were a fail. Or rather, a learning opportunity.

Several things added up to a less than brilliant biscuit:

- The bicarbonate of soda was old. I used some from a big box, and I think it had lost its leavening properties.

- When the recipe said to “roll each quarter of the dough into a sausage 1 cm thick”, my measurement must have been out. Very big Honey Jumbles! Which might have lead to the next problem…

- I slightly underbaked the biscuits. They are tricky - over bake them, and they become too hard, but they are very soft straight out of the oven, and firm up quite a lot overnight. Another two minutes or so next time.

- The icing was slightly too thick for easy spreading, and I misjudged the strength of the new food colouring, leading to a very unappealing colour on half the biscuits! “Rose Pink” was the desired colour - not the unfortunate “Antacid Medicine Pink” I ended tinting!

In the words of Cherish from “Bake Off:The Professionals”
“Cha la la la, I did not enjoy eating this at alllll…”

But never mind. I’m going to try again. Determined to conquer the #HoneyJumbles !
#Baking #cooking #BakingFail #biscuits #GreatBritishBakeOff #BakeOffTheProfessionals

Turns out you should believe the internet when it says mini muffins are 1/3 the size of a regular muffin instead of assuming they are really 1/2 the size.

#bakingfail #bakinglessons #minimuffins

#bakingfail Use $22 gluten free flour, only to forget to check the bourbon. That was an expensive screw up!

#BakingFail can anyone guess what this was *supposed* to be? Lol. Son learned some good lessons about early morning baking before his bus and why softened butter is important.

@Violinknitter Tee hee! I started baking cakes from scratch when I was about 8. Unfortunately, one time I decided to make a marbled layer cake for my sibling's birthday... and forgot all leavening agents. The entire cake, including frosting, was less than 2" thick... And then I tripped, carrying it out to the deck where we were eating, and faceplanted into it. #BakingFail

Recipes that call for bringing 2 sticks of butter to room temperature by leaving on the counter only 15 minutes, obviously do not know that I keep my house at temperatures equivalent to the planet Hoth.

2 days would be insufficient time to warm sticks of butter to the temperature necessary for baking...

#BakingFail #HolidayBaking

My second attempt to make my favourite Christmas cookies after the first ended up in uncontrolled pyrolisis. #ChemistsWhoCook #bakingfail

Too tired to craft today, hoping to be alive for tomorrow's minis painting session at the office. In the mean while, have some speedy fruit cake I failed to turn out last night. It's massacred, but delicious and LOADED with rum

#ItDoesntHaveToBePerfectItJustHasToBeSomething #bakingfail but also #bakingsuccess it was an entirely measureless bake using half a loaf of old molasses bread and instinct

(some credit to being inspired by watching Claire Saffitz do a fruit cake)