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

[veejane.livejournal.com]

OMG I too made a brownie brick! Except it was from a mix, and we just put it in the oven and started a movie without remembering to set a time, and by golly those brownies cooked for about an hour and a half before anybody noticed. (There was no smoke.)

That still beats the time I tried to make brownies from scratch without any eggs (hint: don't do it), but only just.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I tried this in college, and for some bright reason my friend and I had decided to use some proportion of oil and something as a substitute. We ended up with a chocolately, oily brick. To this day that friend still hasn't trusted me with his regular brownie recipe.