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

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I forgot to put eggs in pancakes once. The result was not inedible, but very odd.

Another time, I was making a cake that was supposed to contain 3/4 cup of honey, and I put in 1/4. I tasted it when it came out of the oven, and it was wrong, and eventually I realized what I'd done and had to throw it away and start over, which was particularly annoying because the cake also involved grating some large quantity of carrots, and I'd had to do it by hand.

There was also the time I was visiting my parents. My mother had apparently not used ginger in her cooking for a long time, because, when I added ginger to my almost-completed applesauce cake batter, I discovered that the ginger was full of tiny bugs.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEWWWW!

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I wasn't completely freaked out, just annoyed at the waste of the other ingredients.