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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I love baking, and I make things all the time, but every once in a while I still do an elementary mistake...I over fill the cake pans. Last time I did this it was with a chocolate layer cake. Halfway through baking, I peek in the oven and see this globular mess all over the place. Frustration! It still tastes alright, but doesn't rise nearly as nicely. I think I frosted it anyway... :)

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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Pancake Mountain

whole wheat pancakes (never from a mix), with a homemade depression-style "honey-butter-water" syrup substitute (for some reason growing up my husband's family never had syrup...so this was born!)

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

visiting the beach at Warren Dunes in Michigan...almost every summer as a kid! Usually included a trip to the ultra-low-brow Bob Evans, but we loved it!

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McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review

lol, that's hilarious. You had me going there. All the same, now I've got the craving. Maybe that's what we'll have for dinner. Homemade, of course, though.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I love baking, and I make things all the time, but every once in a while I still do an elementary mistake...I over fill the cake pans. Last time I did this it was with a chocolate layer cake. Halfway through baking, I peek in the oven and see this globular mess all over the place. Frustration! It still tastes alright, but doesn't rise nearly as nicely. I think I frosted it anyway... :)

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Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Pancake Mountain

whole wheat pancakes (never from a mix), with a homemade depression-style "honey-butter-water" syrup substitute (for some reason growing up my husband's family never had syrup...so this was born!)

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

visiting the beach at Warren Dunes in Michigan...almost every summer as a kid! Usually included a trip to the ultra-low-brow Bob Evans, but we loved it!

From A Hamburger Today

McDonald's Big Mac, The AHT Review

lol, that's hilarious. You had me going there. All the same, now I've got the craving. Maybe that's what we'll have for dinner. Homemade, of course, though.

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Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'

skirt steak sandwich with seared mushrooms

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S.O.S. (...on a shingle): Way or No Way?

this was my father-in-law's go-to meal when my husband was growing up. They still like it...I'm alright with it occasionally as a nostalgia trip for my husband, but I prefer biscuits and gravy - almost the same thing but so much better.

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Potluck Help: Traveling with and Reheating Food?

okay, another solution...do you have a converter for your car? One of those that will plug into your cigarette outlet for something to plug into? Then just plug your crock pot into that, and then put the whole thing into a box or something to prevent it from spilling. Microwaving in small batches just seems so inefficient.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box

pork memory (what a weird phrase)...finding that pork was the cheapest meat when we lived in Taiwan, and so learning how to cook pork tenderloin in the first year of marriage...

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage

okay, this is extremely low-brow, but I love Arby's Roast Beef sandwiches with their Arby's BBQ sauce. After that Portillo's is pretty good....

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates

Chocolate truffle cookies. But in truth nothing can beat half a pan of brownies with a huge glass of milk when you're 6 months pregnant.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

since I've only eaten breakfast in NY a handful of times and never brunch, I'll just have to take a hint from everybody else and assume that bagels are a New York brunch food....and bagels I do thoroughly enjoy. Probably the closest I ever got to NY brunch food, then, was when I went to a shop called New York Bagels in.....of all places....Taipei.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

the only one I can afford usually is round steak, which I know is really not a steak, but it stir frys alright...

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box

I've got two - learning to make shuijiao, those Chinese pork dumplings when I lived in Taiwan, and then watching my great uncle and later my dad make bacon bread, which is something that Hungarians for generations have been subsisting on when there was nothing else to eat, and now we eat at American backyard barbeques.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Boneless Heritage Ham

the absolute best sandwich is anything as close to Potbelly's as you can get...so that would mean some kind of melty white cheese (so I can't remember what they use...) and ham toasted together on a whole wheat hoagie bun, then topped with mayo, mustard, italian seasoning, gardinera, tomato, onion, and a pickle. Mmmmm...

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The Sweet Lowdown

sugar...a little honey for some things.

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Essentials: Strawberry Shortcake

definitely worth making your own with real whipped cream and real shortcake! Your particular recipe sounds great. Have to try it.

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I am getting married - but I need a menu

For our wedding we had a mid-afternoon reception and served egg rolls (though we're hardly Asian...it was from my husband's favorite restaurant), fruit trays, veggie trays, and of course cake. People loved the egg rolls and felt they were enough to make a meal, even though it wasn't intended as a full meal. A local Chinese restaurant makes their egg rolls from scratch and they are worlds better than anything you can get premade or frozen. We ordered the egg rolls from them and then the trays from another restaurant that does catering. It was quite economical because we didn't have the whole thing catered from one place and had a few church ladies keeping the buffet tables full.

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

cadbury eggs...I have loved them forever, especially when I get a good one whose center hasn't solidified but is still nice and creamy....mmmmmm

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

i completely botched a pineapple upside down cake. too much butter and too much pineapple led to a buttery pineapple mess... too bad cause i know its a good recipe.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I don't bake, baking scares me. One time in high school I decided to overcome this fear and suprise my mother with a pan of brownies. I hate nuts in my desserts, but she loves them so I figured I'd take one for the team and throw in the bag of walnut pieces I found in the back of the pantry. Well, she takes one bite and makes this face because apparently the nuts were rotten and the whole pan of brownies was ruined. I still don't trust nuts in baked goods and haven't thought twice about baking something since then.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

My most recent baking mistake: Making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and forgetting the oatmeal. It took an embarrassingly long time to figure out what was missing!
Not baking, per say, but the olive oil story reminded me of a time when I tried to make Annie's mac and cheese without butter. I substituted EVOO instead thinking it would taste the same (stupid). It was hands down the most disgusting pasta I've ever had.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Cakes and dogs--never a good combination. How many of us have left the celebratory creation just a tad too close to the edge of the counter, only to come home from the big meal out, mouths set for sugar, to discover that fido has once again proven his real reason for being, i.e., to grab all the available food whenever you're not looking?

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

French Bread. It never rose, it smelled weird and ended up baking into a puddle. Ate it anyway.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Anything I bake is probably a disaster, but that I why I let my wife do all the baking.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

We ordered a store-bought cake when my mom received her masters degree in writing. As we were putting the candles on, we realized it read "Congrulations!". We decided the misspelling was highly appropriate for the celebration...

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I have given up on baking. My last disaster was a loaf of rock solid rye bread with a gooey center. I can't dance either.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I was making a batch of biscotti, and underbaked the dough the first time. So after it came out of the second bake...I had stale, rock-hard biscotti. stale, rock-hard INEDIBLE biscotti. I haven't tried attempting to make them again.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I was so proud, as a teenager, to make my first unassisted loaf of bread... and discovered what happens when you leave out the salt. You just can't add it once it's baked...

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

After our first child was born my wife made me a birthday cake. She left the completed cake on the kitchen counter and went to tend to our barely 2 week old daughter.

Upon returning to the kitchen she saw the remains of the cake being devoured by our 1.5 year old Basset Hound.

My wife sat down and cried, then proceeded to make another cake.

It was a horrible happening but a memory we always share.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

A friend and I worked our way through Martha Stewart's peach and creme fraiche pie (it's delicious: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/peach-and-creme-fraiche-pie?), but when the pies were done baking, my friend accidentally flipped it upside down and it landed, splat, face first in the bottom of the oven! Good thing we made 2.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Now everytime I'm in the supermarket, I look for cakewrecks. It's amazing how many are out there!

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Using olive oil in a brownie recipe. Definitely not a good thing.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

The cobbler topping of my apple cobbler wasn't getting browned, but the apples were bubbling and good to go. I was impatient so I turned on the broiler. But then left it in there for just too long. Totally burned the topping.

At least the apple was still good when I scraped off the topping.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

My friend and i were making chocolate cupcakes and right when i was about to put the pan into the oven, i tripped and i got chocolate cake batter all over me and the oven. So we had half a batch of cupcakes and after we frosted them, and put them all in a nice container, they all fell over and we had a big chocolate frosting/cupcake glob in the container

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Haha, easy -- three weeks ago, I put too much (by a LOT) Sambuca into an otherwise lovely pear cake and ended up with an inedible, chokingly-alcoholic brick; the other day, I somehow wrecked beyond repair my snickerdoodles and ended up with one paper thin layer of snickerdoodle that I cut into slices. At least those were still tasty.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Our family's classic cake wreck story: my brother's graduation cake was ordered from a bakery that was also hired to create our wedding cake. The graduation cake arrived and we tried and tried to cut through it, but we kept hitting something hard. Trying not to tear the cake up, we carefully cut away cake to find a LARGE serrated knife had been left in the raspberry filling layer of the cake. No discount was given for that error, but my Mom did get to keep the knife as a souvenir!

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

intricate butter icing and hot, humid weather do NOT go together. i spent 2 hours icing spongebob and dora on my 2 year old cousin's birthday cake. by the time i arrived and unveiled my creation it looked more like a square sun with a purple, pink, light brown blob. at least it tasted alright.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

....a quick cake need....to find I was half a cup short of flour with everything else ready to go

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

no, baking powder and baking soda are not interchangable. doh!

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

all i'm saying is that salt does not equal sugar in a cake recipe

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

I once made pumpkin bread with my cous and was reading out the recipe out to her step by step, but when I got to the "mix dry ingredients" part, I totally forgot to tell her to add the baking powder. The result? A lifeless piece of pumpkin-y poo.

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'

Still no idea what went wrong, but I had a pound cake that was heaving and boiling and overflowing the pan.

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