Despite what some think, I make a lot of mistakes in the kitchen. Especially when it comes to baking. Over the years, I have gotten significantly more confident in the baking field due to trial and error but every once in a while, I royally screw up a batch. That’s just life’s way of keeping things balanced.
See, my friend was having a party and not only did I volunteer to make dessert, I also volunteered to cook. Rule number one. Never bite off more than you can chew. In my haste to get everything done, I rushed through my chocolate cupcakes. They seemed fine. But the end result was Chocolate hockey pucks. It didn’t taste bad- it was just hard to swallow.
I looked online to see if I could possibly salvage my cupcakes. I read about poking holes in the cupcake and pouring a simple syrup over it.
Tried it. Let it sit overnight. Woke up to wet chocolate hockey pucks. I wanted to cry. So I went shopping, bought more butter, flour, sugar and cocoa. Whipped it all up again and ended up with TWO batches of hockey pucks. What the Puck!?!?!
At my wits end and up to my ears in my humid kitchen with dry chocolate cupcakes, I reached for the emergency stash of cool whip in the freezer and made a poor (but tasty) looking ice box cake.
I salvaged these puppies by slicing them thinly, Layering them into a 9 x 13 pyrex and then spreading a layer of cool whip on top.
On the layer of whipped cream, I added more cupcakes.
and when I ran out of room in the pan, I put one final layer of whipped cream.
I covered this and placed it in the fridge for a few hours. It set really nicely.
At the end of the night, me and the girls were pretty sloshed. We cut into this baby and it was magnificent. The cupcakes were moist (finally) and their richness went perfectly with the mild whipped cream.
They were so hammered that upon consuming the ice box cake one of them cried out “How did you get the cake in the middle?”. We all looked at each other and laughed. So my hockey pucks turned into a pretty bad ass ice box cake.
Have any of your baking disasters ever turn into anything awesome???
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Yeaaaaaaah…..I’d hit that. I always try to salvage something if it didnt end up how it was supposed to be, which oddly enough, seems to happen when I’m baking. There was one recipe last winter for banana bread muffins that I tried that turned out horribly. So horribly, I didn’t even put it on the blog. They were unusually dry so I kept them out for a day, sliced them and turned it into biscotti to have with my coffee!
Damn girl! They were THAT dry you made biscotti!
that is def blog worthY! I love your boo boos!
miss you!
Well aren’t you just beyond clever. What a great idea! Looks amazing too!
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Desperation makes me do crazy things! I could not bear to eat those hockey pucks nor could i throw them away lol.
I love this story!! I’ve made chocolate bread pudding with a tough cake before, that worked out okay. But icebox cake is my favorite, and I never thought to use it with baking errors. I am definitely doing this next time!
That would be a very interesting! screw up some more bread pudding and turn it into ice box cake! I wanna see! lol
Well there you go! That’s a great way of making lemonade out of lemons. At least you were able to salvage your hockey pucks. I can’t tell you how many times I had had a batch of cookies turn into one cookie. Not much I can do to salvage that.
See, if i have one giant cookie, that just means i will have a very large snack later. no problem there. 😉