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

[mari-redstar.livejournal.com]

For some reason- it had never until now occurred to me to wonder why, actually- my mother dumps flour into a translucent-ish rectangular Tupperware container instead of keeping it in the paper bag.

She does the same thing with the powdered sugar, and the container is the same size and shape, and, look, when you're reaching for the all-purpose flour and you get a proper-looking container full of white powder, do you really stop to examine it closely?

The cookies weren't actually inedible. Much flatter and chewier than one would normally expect, though.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I put my flour and sugar into big plastic bins because I always worry about bags tearing, but mine have the words "Flour" and "Sugar" in large friendly letters on them. :)