How to make dwarf bread

[rachelmanija]

I figured out why my cornmeal cake turned into a blunt instrument. I glanced at the recipe and apparently noted the proportions but misread the amounts of the two types of flour, so instead of using one cup of flour and half a cup of cornmeal, I used two cups of flour and one cup of cornmeal. Oops.

Definitely worse than Yoon's apple crumble disaster, in which she forgot to put in the sugar in the crumble topping, but I salvaged it, or at least made it edible, by adding more sugar and butter and putting it back in the oven. The cornmeal cannonball had to be flung into the dumpster, where it landed with an echoing boom.

Tell me about your worst cooking disasters.

Comments

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

To this day, I have no idea what I did wrong, but during a childhood attempt to make a new kind of chocolate oatmeal cookie, I produced two dozen tiny cannonballs.

[kate_nepveu]

Mom & I tried to make some traditional Korean [*] cookie during, hmm, freshman year in high school? For a share-your-heritage kind of day.

They came out so hard that they didn't even crack when they were put under the leg of a desk that a student sat on.

[*] I was born in Korea and adopted at three months by non-Korean parents.

[spytap.livejournal.com]

Nice. Similar experience freshman year of college when my mother (a very good cook..normally) sent me oatmeal chocolate cookies to keep me from feeling homesick.

I nearly chipped a tooth.

They were so tough that when we catapulted them off of the 10 story roof towards the concrete below, they didn't break; they just bounced away in the direction of the quad.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

No leavening agent, maybe? I did that to oatmeal cookies once, and they were my standard recipe, which I created myself and make all the time -- I couldn't believe I'd been so silly as to leave out the baking powder.