Baking Nightmares (Day 17 Round 3)
This weekend, I have been baking for my "compassionate cakes" project, I wrote about this in a recent blog and I wanted to bake a cake for my dear husband and I had a request for something "pumpkin" from my daughter. So, I go to work baking....1st was pumpkin muffins for my daughter, I put the flour, sugar, baking soda, eggs, pumpkin, etc... in a large bowl. I dropped the glass jar of cinnamon from my cabinet right into my glass bowl with all the pumpkin mixture. The glass bowl shattered! I thought those baking bowls were made of steel : ( I could not salvage that mixture with glass shards all over the place, I dumped it all in the trash and painstakingly tried to get every sliver of glass off the kitchen counter!
My next baking adventure was a "compassionate cake" for a wonderful family. A basic strawberry cake mix with white icing. no problems. hurrah!
Then, I decided to do a carrot cake for my husband. I was mixing everything together and I realized that I had put the pineapple tidbits in without draining them! The recipe calls for the pineapple to be drained. I stirred everything, thought it looked a bit watery and runny, but hoped it would "bake off" in the oven. No such luck, I iced it with cinnamon buttercream icing, put it in the fridge, my husband came home, cut off a nice slab and couldn't eat it because it was NOT cooked because of all that moisture from the pineapple. Oh poo!
I was determined to keep going though! Now, how about pumpkin cookies with browned butter frosting for my daughter! Sure! Did that all Sunday morning, made quite a mess with the sticky and yummy browned butter frosting, getting it on the floor but on the cookies too and she loved them, everyone loved them and enjoyed them with some cold white milk on a fall day!
Back to "compassionate cakes", made a basic yellow cake mix with strawberry icing for a family a few blocks away. No problems. Rejoice!
Planning to switch to an apple cake this week for my husband, not tonight, I am all "caked out" and ready to watch my fav NFL football team!
My next baking adventure was a "compassionate cake" for a wonderful family. A basic strawberry cake mix with white icing. no problems. hurrah!
Then, I decided to do a carrot cake for my husband. I was mixing everything together and I realized that I had put the pineapple tidbits in without draining them! The recipe calls for the pineapple to be drained. I stirred everything, thought it looked a bit watery and runny, but hoped it would "bake off" in the oven. No such luck, I iced it with cinnamon buttercream icing, put it in the fridge, my husband came home, cut off a nice slab and couldn't eat it because it was NOT cooked because of all that moisture from the pineapple. Oh poo!
I was determined to keep going though! Now, how about pumpkin cookies with browned butter frosting for my daughter! Sure! Did that all Sunday morning, made quite a mess with the sticky and yummy browned butter frosting, getting it on the floor but on the cookies too and she loved them, everyone loved them and enjoyed them with some cold white milk on a fall day!
Back to "compassionate cakes", made a basic yellow cake mix with strawberry icing for a family a few blocks away. No problems. Rejoice!
Planning to switch to an apple cake this week for my husband, not tonight, I am all "caked out" and ready to watch my fav NFL football team!
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Comment by McMousetraps on November 19, 2009 at 5:17am -
I'm intrigued...what is a compassion cake?
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Comment by Elly Rose-Tech Support on November 16, 2009 at 10:16pm -
I missed this blog, Found it just tonight. Some day I will tell you about my first and last cherry pie. I really love how you stick to the project. Among your baking nightmares were a couple of great gives with your compassionate cakes and those yummy cookies. I am glad that you continued baking even in the middle of your nightmare.
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Comment by Wendy Jo on November 15, 2009 at 4:07pm -
I love your compassionate cakes idea. After seeing this blog I went back to read your original blog on what you are doing. What a delish way to meet people and bring smiles to their faces and hearts. I wish you lots of strength for your arms as you stir and bake your way to 100 cakes ;-)
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Comment by Deb~ Community Manager on November 15, 2009 at 3:55pm -
You are one determined lady Harriet! You kept on going and did what you set out to do. Your story made me smile!
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Comment by Joyce Kirby on November 15, 2009 at 3:34pm -
Wow Harriet!! You do have sticktoitiveness!! If there is such a thing I would say you have it!! Amazing gives!!
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Comment by Dawn wwt on November 15, 2009 at 3:01pm -
three cheers for you, for not throwing in the towel after the ill-fated pumpkin muffins! how is the compassionate cake thing working out? how many cakes do you have left to make for it?
hope your team wins tonight. Hugs, Dawn
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