Sometimes recipes don't work out quite like you want them to. I sat down to write a post tonight and realised that the recipe I had for tonight was one I wasn't happy with. I had been working through a list of posts and suddenly got to the end and didn't like what I was going to give you guys.
It was a recipe I had adapted from Good Food magazine for a butter free chocolate fudge cake but it was made with wholemeal flour and oatbran and it just didn't taste appetizing at all. I added hazelnuts to it and baked it in a round tin instead of a brownie tin (not that that would have affected the taste massively). It tasted like health food trying to be cake and I couldn't bring myself to give you a recipe that I didn't think was very nice. What if you tried it and realised for yourself that it was like eating chocolate cardboard? I can't lie to you, I like you all too much for that. So, rather than lie to you and give you a recipe for the sake of filling my regular Tuesday post with a recipe, I'm telling you the truth...I baked something that was a bit rubbish.
I have pancake day posts planned but I'm bringing you that on Thursday, today was just two days too early. My blogging system is too meticulously planned of course. I feel as though the more I blog the more I feel able to accept failure, or be less dramatic, things not turning out quite right. I am my own worst critic! Anyway, when things don't come out quite right the best thing to do is go to pinterest. I am obsessed with pinterest at the moment, it took me a while to get into it but now I like to pin all the things! My pinterest name is The Cake Hunter, my food & drink board is expanding rapidly but it's my favourite place to keep recipe ideas...otherwise I'd lose my tabs on the browser and never find anything again. So, today's blogging lesson is that sometimes things don't work out and if they don't, go on pinterest!
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I have problems with my bakes from time to time. Sometimes I learn more from what went wrong than if something goes perfectly right - and a lot of the time it's more to do with appearance than taste. But it can be really disappointing when something looks the business but doesn't come up to scratch taste-wise. Pinterest is a great source of inspiration though - normally find within minutes I'm planning something else to bake! :)
ReplyDeleteI can get a bit cocky with baking and do like the chuck in what I fancy method. Well... I felt like a fool last week when I thought I'd experiment with coconut flour and black bananas, what I made looked fantastic and tasted like glue! I took a pic for the same reason, to blog that things don't always cut it. Can you crumble your cake on top of ice cream and drench it in sauce?!
ReplyDeleteI love the honesty in this post. You're right, as a blogger, there's always that feeling off pressure to get it right, but it doesn't always work out. It's happened to me many a time!
ReplyDeleteThings don't always go to plan, baking or otherwise, but the main thing is that we learn from such experiences :) (and I agree, pinterest is great for morale-boosting inspiration!).
ReplyDeleteLove the honesty.
Thanks for posting the recipe type anyway because I will know not to try wholemeal flour in chocolate cakes. so your still spreading knowledge!
ReplyDeleteDeirdre @ thekitschcook.blogspot.com
Urgh, I hate it when recipes don't come out how you want. I find magazine recipes are often misprinted too - they hurry through so many recipes each month there's bound to be the odd slip up but it's so frustrating to waste good ingredients.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading your pancake day recipes...yum!
Recipes going wrong is so annoying. I made what I thought was going to be an amazing Cherry Coke cake and just found it a bit 'blah' by the time it was done. It's such a pain to have wasted ingredients but also time.
ReplyDeleteI also LOVE Pinterest - I was so late to the party with it, but now I can't get enough of it! xxx