It's that time of year: We're sharing our annual summary of baking fails, mishaps and all-round kitchen mishaps. Because even the best and most experienced bakers can sometimes goof off in the kitchen.
Author Laura Scaduto's Chocolate Meringue Cake looks more like a chocolate meringue crater. It is cases like these when a thick and swollen tip Confectionery slush comes in bunches to hide imperfections.
Looking for a fail-proof flourless chocolate cake? We have a recipe: Flourless chocolate cake.
Recipe Editor Kye Ameden says, “This is what happens when you leave your last round of waffles in the waffle maker for 45 minutes. I only realized it when I smelled the carbon coming from the other side of the house!”
A apple galette this was not. Thanks to a wrong handling, it turned out more like a Picasso painting of an apple galette.
This cookie bake from our Test Kitchen fell, uh, a little flat.
Looking for a recipe that works? Try these instead: Cheddar Onion Biscuits.
Inventory Planner Sara Booker had an eventful Christmas Eve this year. “We ended up with lumps of coal on Christmas morning. place buckram in the oven and we swore to turn it off… And then we woke up around 2am to the smell of smoke! We didn't leave any cookies out for Santa, so we think he may have turned on the oven when he visited.”
This looks more like the surface of Mars than the delicious cake it's meant to be. Maybe it's time to break out that whipped cream once again?
When the Blueberry Lemon Cake he had painstakingly baked and assembled slipped to the side, I'm pretty sure Recipe developer David Turner heard sad trombone music somewhere in the distance.
What was intended to be cardamom bun dough actually turned into a science experiment: How sad and flat can a dough get? The answer is: A LOT.
Don't worry, we fixed it. Try our perfect recipe here: Cardamom buns.
Are those dark chocolate chip cookies? No. They are actually chocolate CPII cookies that King Arthur contributor PJ Hamel accidentally left in the oven for 45 minutes. Like that time you accidentally fell asleep on the beach and went home looking like a lobster.
Cookies that bake together, stay together. Even when you really don't want them.
A stuck Bundt is to a baker what Michael Myers is to Jamie Lee Curtis: a constant threat, no matter how many precautions you take.
When it comes to juicy cake toppings, you really can have too much of a good thing. I'm shuddering just thinking about cleaning up afterwards.
The bad news? Contributor PJ Hamel sacrificed a perfectly baked cake while experimenting with it the best way to line your cake pans. The good news? She did all the testing so you never have to run into this problem yourself!
Avoid a failure of your baking by calling our Baker's Hotline the next time you flirt with disaster in the kitchen.
