It breaks my heart
So here’s the thing:
I don’t really bake from a cook book.
I have my few base recipes that I originally learned from books or cool people who bake, and then I just tweak and alter as I go, and I think that’s way, way more fun. And then when I am happy with a recipe, I scribble it in my little kitchen notebook so I can remember what was in it.
But I also think cook books are fun. I have way more than anyone really needs, but that is okay. They are pretty. And over the last year, I’ve received quite a few cupcake cook books as gifts, and I have thought they were adorable and displayed them in their own little stack on my end table. All of this was good. I would look through them and sigh at the pretty pictures and think about baking. All of this was good.
And then I decided to use a recipe from one of them.
This was not good.
Not at all.
This is what it produced:
Ha! And here I was thinking all printed recipes had been baked so many times that they were bound to be way more reliable than what we find on the internet. No. No, no, no. I tell you, Chockylit is way, way more accurate. And totally free, via the lovely internets.
So Cupcake Thursday became disaster Thursday. My kitchen has never been such a mess after baking. Granted, I have a really tiny kitchen.
My plans for Friday involve something more successful than this inedible sludge that was supposed to be chocolate raspberry cake. See, I knew I should have just used my favourite dark chocolate recipe and added seedless raspberry jam. It may take me a very long time to consider a cook book again.
On the plus side, I have a gorgeously tempting bowl of Chocolate Raspberry Fudge icing in my fridge. That qualifies as a dinner food, right?
Make your Thursday endeavours be more successful! Or at least, enjoy laughing about them!
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