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.

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[tcastleb.livejournal.com]

In tenth grade, I made a valiant attempt at making buttercream frosting for a buche de noel for French class. I didn't know how to cream butter. Mom wasn't home. Grandma wasn't home to call. Neither was the neighbor. Threw several sticks of butter in the mixer and got little lumps and didn't know if that was enough. Put the liquid portion of the recipe in--bad mistake, because then I realized it was never going to cream. So I dumped the whole concoction down the garbage disposal, turned it on, and, Voila! creamed butter. I had to run hot water down it for a long time to get the butter to melt and go away. The rest of the cake turned out all right, and I substituted a simpler frosting recipe so it worked.

And I did manage to screw up Jell-o once by not stirring it long enough. -sigh-