10 Things That Could Go Wrong While Baking

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by admin in After The Bubbly

I make comments in my cookbooks when I try recipes—things like ‘excellent,’ ‘needs more salt,’ and ‘kids loved it.’ What I wrote after a recent traumatic cake baking experience is not suitable for publication. If my cookbooks survive me, it will be a testament to my grandchildren of their grandmother’s battle with baked goods. I don’t know why I torture myself with baking ‘from scratch.’ I ought to stick with recipes printed on the back of a box with a red spoon in the corner. If you dislike baking—as I do—the baking knows it, and it messes with you.

Still, me with my optimism and the deceptively simple recipe with its butter and eggs. It was a pound cake. What could possibly go wrong?

For the record:
1. You could be out of flour. Turns out this is a baking deal breaker. Who knew?
2. You could decide to get some bang for your bake by doubling the recipe. However, now that you have flour, all those ingredients don’t neatly fit into your fancy mixer—the one that still matches your kitchen even though you haven’t it used since the last time you were delusional enough to bake something, which was a couple of Christmases ago.
3. You could neglect to ask—before getting started—what exactly is a tube pan?

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