Comments on: Sunday Confessional 8/16

By: Ceci

Ceci — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:04:31 +0000

While confectioners sugar (10x sugar) and flour look alike, they cannot be substitued for each other. My roomate made fried chicken once, and used sugar instead of flour. We couldn’t figure out why the chicken was so sticky, although it tasted good. Months later I was baking and she watched me take flour and then c-sugar, and wanted to know why i was adding flour twice.

By: Ceci

Ceci — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:01:54 +0000

My mom bought me a very cute nightshirt a few months ago, and it does fit, but it’s so short I can’t wear it unless I’m home alone, or if i want to give my guess a peek of something i’d rather keep private.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:21:18 +0000

Cindy,

Come to think of it, I’m sure the muffins were pretty flat or hard or something. I was probably in high school when this happened, so I guess that’s a little bit of an excuse–young and ignorant.

Stacy

By: Heather @ Not a DIY LIfe

Heather @ Not a DIY LIfe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:34:06 +0000

If my muffin pan were missing, I would check in Ladybug’s toy bin. She likes to cook and bake as much as I do! Hope you find it soon!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:16:42 +0000

I didn’t, we set those aside, I only needed the ones that fit in the muffin tin for family / guests / photos. The others were left in the kitchen and consumed with whipped cream as a DIY Ding Dong / Ho Ho. ;P

By: JaxCC

JaxCC — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:32:53 +0000

Heather, is there any chance you took a picture of the turtlesque cupcakes that you’d be willing to share?

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:39 +0000

Stacy, you’re story reminds me of a misadventure with my sister, cousins, and aunt! I had this great idea to make a strawberry shortcake for my uncle one year for his birthday. I was 15 and the oldest of the bunch, but I had been baking under my mom’s supervision for about 5 years now. My youngest cousin (about 11) was getting the ingredients out of the cabinet as my aunt read them off from the cookbook. My aunt said baking powder, and my cousin pulled out the baking powder can and asked, “This one?” “No,” my aunt replied, and my cousin put it back and grabbed the baking soda box and again asked, “This one?” “Yes, that one,” my aunt replied, and we went on about our cake making. About halfways through baking my other cousin (about 14) peeks in at it and says, “It looks a little flat!” When it came out of the oven, it was veeerrry flat. It tasted waaaayyy too salty, and even the dog wouldn’t eat it!

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:26:57 +0000

You mean, like the time I made banana bread with powdered sugar? Yep, accidental substitution of ALL the flour with powdered sugar. Plus extra, because I couldn’t understand why the texture was wrong, so I added more “flour” to fix it. Also, powdered sugar doesn’t rise.

Yes, we tossed it.

And yes, all flour and sugar containers are now labeled!

By: Becca

Becca — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:24:58 +0000

Foreign recipes, no matter how authentic they may be, are sometimes a total failure. Recipes rarely translate correctly.

When I was in college I tried making “Lebkuchen” for my German class. Well, I don’t know if something got lost in translation or if I lost an ingredient when I printed out the recipe. It was not like gingerbread. In fact it wasn’t like bread at all. The closest thing it resembled was a dog chew toy. It was a sweetened rock hard ‘bar’ that had the shelf life of dried beans or maybe baking soda. I finally tossed it months later when I male visitor thought it tasted good and wanted to take some home. The word ‘lebkuchen’ alone brings uncontrollable giggling to my old roommate. What can I say, that bread of life was a total flop.

By: Patricia Mitchum

Patricia Mitchum — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:52:26 +0000

Send me this information follow up. Great