OK, so I say to myself, "Oh I should bake a cake for the teachers tomorrow for my sons pre school"... I figure I will try a cup cake cake since I've never made one and it would be good practice..I stink at making cupcakes, I don't know why but I do..So I bake them and then put a cutting board on top of them to flatten them so they are all level, and when I take it off, all the tops come off. I guess I should have let them cool first..So I throw them out..
Now I think I'll just bake a cake instead..I make a 10 inch square, using one box mix, and it looks too small,when it's done , so I make another one, so it will be 2 layer....Then I fool around with making an edible inage, and I really think it looks great, so I print it..I didn't think it looked really centered, so I print it again..Ok fine, I take it to the cake, to check how it will look...and IT"S TOO BIG FOR THE CAKE..holy cr*p..
So I figure I will just use that cake for mothers day, I'll freeze it..So I make 2 cake mixes and put it all in the 12 inch pan, and pop it into the oven, I go to heat up a bottle for my son , and the butter was in the microwave, it is supposed to be in the cake..HOLY CR*P.. I am now thinking why the hel* did I want to make this cake..So I took it out of the oven, (it was in there less than a minute..)I dumped it back in the KA and added the butter, and baked it, and that is the cake they are getting.....I hate baking right now, but it's done, and I think I need A VERY STRONG DRINK!!!!!!!!!!!
Did I mention I have a 3 year old, and a 7 month old, who is TEETHING!!!!! Well that's all..I hope I NEVER have another baking day like this or I QUIT!!!
JoAnn

YES, YES, AND YES!!!

My daughter's 8th birthday cake!!!! YIKES! The cake was fine but I made the mistake of doubling the fondant recipe and it just didn't come together at the end.... I was kneading and kneading and kneading until I said "the heck with this!!!!!!" Threw it in the garbage and just covered the cake with buttercream. I hate throwing food away like that!!!!

I have other times too, but yes, I also have a 2 year old that gets her little fingers into everything and I have to watch her like a hawk!!!!

So, yes, yes, and yes!!!!

ruined my own cupcake this week.
Forgot to turn my oven down to 325 and also forgot to put the timer on them.
Burning chocolate cakes smells so awful, wheeew!

Was trying to do a nice thing for the librarians in our town. Ended up using way more of my day than I planed on that ccc.

I feel your pain.

Besides, I have seven children 15 years old down to a 16 month old.
They harrass me something awfull when they see me take out my big silver mixing bowl.
I haven't even cracked an egg and they are asking if they can have the spatula.

mommachris

God can I relate! Just last night I made my first scratch yellow cake with strawberry filling and my first ever homemade BC!! I was so excited I couldnt WAIT to taste it. So I am done frosting the thing and as I go to pick it up to put it in the fridge to crumb coat, it splits in three places right down the center, and the filling oozed out everywhere and the top layer slid right off. (kind of like the turkey in that National Lampoons movie) It was like a snowball effect, you just couldnt stop it once it got started!!
JoAnn-dont give much thought to the day. and certainly dont quit!! You love baking for a reason, just try to remember that, even if it is the last thing in the world you want to do today You know what they say, if at first you dont succeed......just go get drunk

Wow, you are describing my day to a T! I have a two tier{8 & 12 inch}birthday cake and 2, 4 inch smash cakes due Saturday, so I decided to bake today. I make my first 12 inch layer and realize I forgot the oil! Too late though,cake is almost done, it didn't taste or look bad but I couldn't sell it! So I make the other layer and realized I needed another cake mix for the 2nd layer and have to run to the store. Then I started my other cake which was strawberry, I used pillsbury cake mix, will never again. My cake sank like the Titanic, big 'ol dip right in the center! And the whole time my boys{4 and 2} are in the living room throwing pillows off the couch and dirty clothes out of the laundry basket!! Man it's been a rough day. I hate days like this. I finally got all my cakes baked and crumb coated and I'm waiting until tomorrow to do anything else.{I don't want to tempt fate}

Today was not bad but I have had those days.! Last November I was trying to bake a cake in the 2-mix book pan for the first time. I usually doctor a mix but this time I was making the Hershey's chocolate cake. I doubled the recipe, baked it and it came out about an inch high on the edges and those edges were tough.
Next I put more batter in but this time it started oozing over the side of the pan in the oven. It just kept going and going. It looked like a lava flow. Lots of smoke and a big mess to clean up. I finally got a decent cake on the third try. My poor husband had to keep going to the store to get me additional supplies!

Cindy

Wow!!!! you guys have no idea how happy I am knowing I'm not alone! I hate that we have these days but believe me I have had them and by the time I get over the disaster I am absolutely exhausted and the kids are about ready to be home from school and I have to make dinner for the family!!!! My back is killing me, my feet ache, my kitchen is so messy you can't even see the counter and when the kids get in, they find out the cake isn't for them and then they are mad!!!! Sound familiar? I go through spells where I never want to see another cake again but then I see all the beautiful cakes everyone puts on this website and I get inspired once again!! Thank goodness we have each other

I posted about this before a little bit but this is my as I call it cat cake.

I make a 15 * 9 ??? sheet cake, simple right? First time I over cooked it, second time I realized 5 min in I forgot the oil, third time I set the cake out to cool and the cat walks across it! Lucky it was under a rag or she would have eaten it. In the end I gave up and since the person I made it for liked strawberries, I frosted it and made little cat prints out of sliced strawberries. It was a hit

I forgot the sugar in one of my commissions. How can anyone forget the sugar? Needless to say, when I leveled the cake and took a taste of the top I couldn't figure out why it tasted like vinegar. Threw out that batch and it wasn't till the next day when I had a moment to think about it that I realized I had forgotten the sugar.

Forgot the sugar......I just can't get over that!

Everybody has bad baking days. You'd think we'd all be pro's at baking by now but nooooo way. Sometimes I think the more we do it the more likely we are to foget something important. I'm going to start printing a BIG page that has just the ingredients on it so I can look at it and remember everything. I haven't really had a bad baking day lately but my AC is broken in my house so I could practically bake a cake on my counter. Add a 325 degree oven running ALL DAY to the mix, and it's going to be a long hot weekend.

Oh I know that I can SOOOOOOOOO relate with you on this one ... I cannot tell you how many times the phone has rang or someone has come over while I was baking a cake ... ever get to one of those moments where you say "did I add the sugar?" or "how many cups of flour did I just put in there?" ... I've done this so many times I don't have enough finger and toes to use to count on that high so we're all right there with you.. don't despair!!

Why is it whenever you are having a "cake"-tastrophy. There always seems to be an audience in the kitchen? And when you really nail something there is no one around to celebrate with you?

One time I made a half sheet for my son's birthday. It was supposed to be a swimming pool and I always swear I won't take all day to do it. Frankly, I'm not all that fond of baking but its a necessary evil if you want to decorate, right?

I made the half sheet, cut a half inch down into the square for the pool, frosted the whole thing in butter cream, put chicklets all around the pool like tile, frost a different bathing suit design on 12 different teddy grahams, make pool plants out of gumballs and fruit roll-ups, ready the blooming pool toys made from different candies and THEN make blue jello the quick cool way per all the instructions, pour the jello into the cake and as I'm taking it down to the "party" fridge in the basement to firm up the jello, the cake (pool) develops a crack and I have blue jello all the way across the kitchen floor, all the way down the steps, all over the inside of the fridge and all inside my cake!!! I go back upstairs, grab the frosting, RE-FROST the inside of the pool, adjust the chicklets and pour in more jello all with the fridge door open.

My MOTHER shows up just as I'm finishing up, slips on the jello in the kitchen, cusses the whole way to her tailbone on the tile floor and screams, YOU ARE NO HOMEMAKER ARE YOU???????????

Life goes on!! The kids loved the cake - both the flavor and the decoration! The grown-ups hated the blue jello, white cake, butter cream combination but we had plenty of pork bar-b-Q so who cares what they thought about the flavor of the cake! I swore I'd never make that POOL cake again, but I did (this time with BLUE butter cream instead of jello) and an 8 inch round. You gotta laugh!!

O.K. My motto is nothing is ever ruined. It just changes form. You can make brownies out of the choc. ruined cakes or you can take a round cookie cutter and make mini cakes out of the ruined cakes or lots of little cake balls. Sometime I make individual baked Alaska's out of my disasters and put them in the freezer. These are ways to help you never feel defeated.

last night I went to put my nicely smoothed(took forever) cake in the fridge, and dropped it on the stinking shelf,and had to take it out and re frost and clean out the fridge @ 10:30 @ night! how stupid is that?actually thats called tired!

When I have days like these (and I have had quite a few) I say: Today I learned _______. The blanks have been..to always check the microwave ( I have forgotten the melted butter also), to refrigerate the cookie dough (yeah, I also learned that flat cookies don't taste so bad), double check my recipe for ingredients before I start (stop the mixer..I'm outta milk!) and so on. So many lessons, so little time!

I have had 2 awful days lately. I messed up the pastry pie crust for my homemade banana cream pie for Mother's Day, and had to scrounge in the cupboards for graham crackers, vanilla cookies, you name it to put together a crust. So not a total loss. And then today, when I started my cake, I realized I didn't have enough eggs. So off to the store with my 2 babies in tow. Then I get home and realize, DOH! out of oil. So back to the store. Then I get the cake made and panicked, thinking I didn't have a cake board. Luckily, I did. I always forget the eggs. Always. And each time I think this will never happen again!

I think everyone has had days like these. I know I have. I was making a small oval cake once and wasn't paying attention to the size of the pan and added the entire cake mix to both pans. Big mistake. The cake started rising up over the pan and running onto the bottom of the oven. It didn't smell that great. The cake turned out OK and it sure was a very tall cake. LOL.