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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.

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?

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.