Baking Blunders!!!

I have to say, my family has had its share of baking blunders. For instance, when my dad attempted to make a cake for my older sister’s second birthday, when he attempted to make the cake mistaking the baking powder for flour twice the cake turned into melted chocolate goo, melting into the oven twice.

   I’ve had similar blunders; one time for some strange reason my mother moved the salt into a similar container the identical size and shape of the sugar.

   It was the first time I was baking alone and I was excited, so as I measured out the exact ingredients and mixed them together. I was excited and mistakenly put over two cups of salt in the cookies. I had my mother try them, she threw them all away, let’s just say now I don’t make the mistake every again.

   But now I’m sure you must be wondering if I’ve every burned something, and yes. Just before last Christmas my church had a cookie bake sale, my mother asked if I could make three different cookies. My greatest enemy that night was ginger bread men, everything went okay the dough was being uncooperative, so I was a little bit mixed up. I had put the seventh and last sheet of Ginger Bread men and Ginger Bread Cats in the oven but mistakenly forgot to set the timer.

     As I prepared the sugar cookies in the shape of stars onto sheets, I pick up a sheet and was faced with a wall of smoke. I had forgotten about the sheet of ginger bread cookies, I put down the sugar cookies, yelling at my sister to open the door, running outside. Then proceeding to bang the baking sheet on the railing of my deck until all the cookies were in the yard.

   After I came inside I told my mother, “I am never making ginger bread men and cats again, innless I have help” before I finished making all the cookies.

   In the end, the ginger bread men that came out fine, were tasty and everybody enjoy the cookies at the bake sale, though the moral of the story is, when baking cookies make one kind at a time, epically if your kitchen is very small, and really keep your eye on the time.