Carrot Cake Disaster
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I’ve always wanted to make carrot cake. So with this in mind, I made sure to get carrots during my last trip to the grocery store. I do this quite frequently. I buy baking stuff for when I feel like baking. But sometimes I never feel like it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bought ingredients to make key lime bars only to have them spoil because I am just not in the mood to bake. But last night the mood to bake hit AND I had the right ingredients. So I decided to finally try making carrot cake, carrot cupcakes to be precise.
I was so excited! Mmmm homemade carrot cupcakes, little tiny cakes of yum. I read the recipe, added the ingredients according to directions, eagerly mixed everything up, and scooped them into cupcake liners. I set the timer and then impatiently waited 18 minutes while the house filled up with smells of cinnamon and cloves and deliciousness.
The timer beeped and I raced into the kitchen. I opened the oven door expecting to see little poofy brown delicious cakes. BUT I was greeted with tiny, wet, caved in disappointments. What happened to my yummies?
I reread the directions. Oh no! I FORGOT to add the flour! I knew something felt wrong when I was making it. I actually thought, this is all that’s in carrot cake? I should have slowed down. But the prospect of carrot cake in 18 minutes was just too much. What a disaster. And I couldn’t even make more because I didn’t have anymore carrots and the grocery store was closed. I was sooooo disappointed. I sat there picking at the cooked carrots, they actually tasted pretty good, but it wasn’t cake.
been there done that but I screw up and forgot to add baking powder to some lemon bars I made. I still ate them but I had to make a second batch just to prove I could.
Kuky says: yep I’m so making this again. I’m getting carrots later.
booo!! i hate it when that happens. i do it too. although i usually realize my mistake just after i’v e poured the batter into the muffin tins– then i’m trying to spoon and mix little bits of the missing ingredient into each muffin cup– and it ends up a yucky mess.
better luck next time. maybe if you still have enough ingredients left, you can try again tomorrow and triumph over the carrot cake!
Kuky says: I totally thought about doing that when it came out all wet and sad. I mean seriously. I thought about adding the flour AFTER it had already cooked for 18 minutes! My reasoning was it was still wet.
Sadly, I have done that before, just not with carrot cake.
Kuky says: Isn’t it so very disappointing? I ended up making some dark choco pots.
Bummer! I do stuff like that all the time. Often it’s not even edible. Hope the next batch turns out better!
Reminds me of the time my sisters and I made a batch of no bake cookies with the last of the cocoa. The only problem was we used salt instead of sugar. Yuck! We couldn’t make more because there was no more cocoa.
Reminds me of the time when I was about 9 years old and wanted to make cookies. I didn’t forget to add something, but I took the custardpowder in stead of the flower bowl…the cookies looked and tasted very yellow and very pudding…but tasty it was!
Anyway, in need of a good (and quick) chocolate cake recipe: here you find it:
http://www.tantehilde.be/wrdprss/?page_id=40
I LOVE carrot cake!
I think we’ve all made cooking disasters like that. I think what’s worse is when you et so excited about cake, and then it falls when you take it out of the oven. Its like an I Love Lucy episode!
I used to make the World’s Best Carrot cake (I know because that was the name of the recipe *tee hee*)
I think this is the same one…
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,176,156173-250195,00.html
Are you insane! Forgetting the flour. WaWa is here beside me laughing. Especially about the part where you confess that you buy baking supplies while in the mood and yet suddenly not in the mood when you get home. I have 3 baking projects gathering dust as we speak. WaWa was laughing at ME really.