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Cook the Book: One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes and they are easy, yes, but not great. There's not much chocolate flavor and the texture is off. Cook's Illustrated recipe for Dark Chocolate cupcakes takes only a little bit more time but is vastly superior.

kimberlykv at 2:25PM on 11/25/08

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I’d like to share my biggest cooking disaster. I am the friend or family member that always offers to make a cake when someone is having a birthday or party. For my cousin’s eighth birthday, I offered to make some sort of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I decided to try a recipe for Chocolate Cream Cake: three devil's food cake layers filled with whipped cream and frosted with a chocolate buttercream. I had to make the cake in a hurry, but all seemed to be going well. The cakes came out of the oven and were so moist that it was difficult to stack them. I began assembling the cake with the first cake layer, then a whipped cream layer, and the cake looked really wonderful. I applauded myself and predicted that this would really be the best, most impressive cake that I had made to date.

I made the chocolate buttercream and began to frost the cake. It was very difficult to frost the sides, as the whipped cream kept seeping into my frosting, along with some chocolate cake crumbs, and worst of all, the cake was beginning to bulge out on the sides. By the time I'd finished frosting the cake, I had started to curse and repeat, "This is so ugly. There is no way I can take this cake anywhere."

Even worse was that as I drove to the party, the jostle of the car created small cracks in the top of the cake. Every turn only widened the cracks, so that there was soon a full-blown fault line whipped cream visible down the center of the cake. It also looked like the cake was about to split in two and crumble into the floor. At the party, everyone at the party started calling it the earthquake cake. The big ‘8’ birthday candle sank ever so nicely into the whipped cream. That was definitely the ugliest cake I have ever made. Photo

kimberlykv at 6:07PM on 09/22/08

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Cook the Book: One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes and they are easy, yes, but not great. There's not much chocolate flavor and the texture is off. Cook's Illustrated recipe for Dark Chocolate cupcakes takes only a little bit more time but is vastly superior.

kimberlykv at 2:25PM on 11/25/08

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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'

I’d like to share my biggest cooking disaster. I am the friend or family member that always offers to make a cake when someone is having a birthday or party. For my cousin’s eighth birthday, I offered to make some sort of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I decided to try a recipe for Chocolate Cream Cake: three devil's food cake layers filled with whipped cream and frosted with a chocolate buttercream. I had to make the cake in a hurry, but all seemed to be going well. The cakes came out of the oven and were so moist that it was difficult to stack them. I began assembling the cake with the first cake layer, then a whipped cream layer, and the cake looked really wonderful. I applauded myself and predicted that this would really be the best, most impressive cake that I had made to date.

I made the chocolate buttercream and began to frost the cake. It was very difficult to frost the sides, as the whipped cream kept seeping into my frosting, along with some chocolate cake crumbs, and worst of all, the cake was beginning to bulge out on the sides. By the time I'd finished frosting the cake, I had started to curse and repeat, "This is so ugly. There is no way I can take this cake anywhere."

Even worse was that as I drove to the party, the jostle of the car created small cracks in the top of the cake. Every turn only widened the cracks, so that there was soon a full-blown fault line whipped cream visible down the center of the cake. It also looked like the cake was about to split in two and crumble into the floor. At the party, everyone at the party started calling it the earthquake cake. The big ‘8’ birthday candle sank ever so nicely into the whipped cream. That was definitely the ugliest cake I have ever made. Photo

kimberlykv at 6:07PM on 09/22/08

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Cook the Book: One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes

I concur--these weren't very good. I have to say, I've repeatedly been disappointed by MS's recipes.

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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'

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Lucy Baker at 12:34PM on 09/29/08

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Every time I bake it's a disaster :)

jmahurin40 at 12:12PM on 09/29/08

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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'

My biggest baking success was making cinnamon buns.

lilyk at 11:57AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest baking disaster was my sons first birthday cake that I tried to bake and I forgot the eggs... lol it was horrible flat gummy horrible! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
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cadewill at 11:53AM on 09/29/08

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I like to try different candy recipes during the Christmas Holidays, so a few years ago, I found a recipe for homemade cherry chocolates. They were easy to make and tasted great, so I made a lot of them, for family and friends. Now, every Christmas they all want more of them, lol, which is fine, with me, they are easy to make and you can make them early in the season. They improve with age.

brmetcalf at 11:43AM on 09/29/08

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my biggest success was making cream cheese pound cake it came out so perfect that its a request every year

fancyfeet48 at 11:18AM on 09/29/08

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Biggest success is when I make my Candy Bar Cheeskcake. Always turns out perfect. I have never had any horrifyingly bad experiences. So far, so good (knock on wood).

mnsteph at 11:12AM on 09/29/08

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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'

Let's just say that you cannot switch Baking Soda and Baking Powder in and out...you must use what the recipe calls for...*bleck*

Tarah716 at 10:44AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest baking success was the Baed Alaska I baked for my husband's second anniversary.

garrettsambo at 10:28AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest success is my amazingly awesome Christmas dinners each and every year! I fix all of the traditional favorites and try 5 or 6 new recipes I have selected during the year for something special.

kaylee8 at 10:20AM on 09/29/08

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baking mix and flour are not the same thing. the hockey pucks disguised as muffins that came out of my oven are proof of that.

grace24 at 9:49AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest success would probably be pound cake and blondies as people always seem to love them. I don't have a big disaster story as I check and double check because I do worry about that. I did make a Scooby Doo cake once though that was adorable and tasty but a pain to decorate, I had never attempted that before.

07violet at 9:07AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest baking success was when I took a cake decorating class and made my daughter a birthday cake with a birds nest and a little bird. I think it turned out quite well.
Then there was the time I tried my luck at making roses on another cake and that didn't turn out to well.

kewpiedoll04 at 4:48AM on 09/29/08

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one time I was baking a quiche in the oven and it overflowed all over my oven ...Thats was not an easy mess to clean! I was so upset with myself, that I've never tried that recipe again.

ooodaisymaeooo at 2:15AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest disaster is when I forget about what I am baki8ng and burn it. It happens about once every 3 months. My biggest success is my cakes. I have become really good at baking cakes and everyone seems to love them.

Bakersdozen at 12:46AM on 09/29/08

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I have a disaster about once a week whenever I end up burning something.

theolotto at 12:07AM on 09/29/08

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My biggest downfall was my first attempt at baked beans, as a novice cook years ago: double the recipe and I must have doubled the time--results were hard, dry, and so stuck to the dish that rather than try to remove it I actually threw out the baking dish. And I was poor and never threw anything out, but this was BAD.

eluckstead at 10:25PM on 09/28/08

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The first time a made cookies in my apartment I used the broiler pan because I did not have a cookie sheet and I remembered my mom using some kind of cooking paper(yes I know now its parchment) I used wax. the wax melted and I tried scrapping it off. There were big black burnt stipes on the cookies. I still brought them in to work for our class bake sell. They sold like hot cakes. All the kids thought it was chocolate stipes.

danzeo at 8:25PM on 09/28/08

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I recently made my first ever yeast coffee cake, and it turned out heavenly!

wallindeb at 7:58PM on 09/28/08

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I found a great recipe for frosted sugar cookies and made them brought them to work. Everyone thought the were from a professional bakery they turned out so well!

yellowlabs at 6:23PM on 09/28/08

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i found a recipe in an old best desserts cookbook for my daughter's graduation party. I was so stressed out! The cinnamon rolls I made were compared to professional ones. It was certainly a miracle!

chilidogbb at 6:17PM on 09/28/08

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I found my go-to dessert that is quick and perfect. I make a key lime pie (only 4 ingredients) and sometimes I layer the bottom of the shell with frozen blueberries or raspberries (they must be frozen so they held their shape while the pie bakes) before I pour themizture on top.
A quick homemade whipped cream and everyone is thrilled.
Nycole K
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knycks at 5:56PM on 09/28/08

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I've had a few disasters. Most of them involve forgetting whether or not I put in an ingredient or how much I put in. Lots of flat cakes.
gkstratos@yahoo.com

gkstratos at 5:41PM on 09/28/08

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My biggest success was the first Thanksgiving I held at my house. I made yeast rolls from scratch and they were AWESOME! but also A LOT of work. I have had several requests to make them again but I haven't done it yet.

dbkagrayson2002 at 5:03PM on 09/28/08

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