What cooking or baking mistakes have you made?

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39. I had my own cake disaster when I was 9. I wanted to bake my dad a birthday cake. There's a really

delicious, easy chocolate cake called a "Wacky Cake" I made a few times with my mom, so I thought I knew what I was doing. I got everything mixed okay then I put it in the oven. It said to bake it for 35 minutes which is what I did. What I didn't do was preheat the oven and I think I put the oven at 250F instead of 350F because that sucker was raw when I took it out of the oven. I frosted it anyway because it told me to bake it for 35 minutes. Dad was nice about it, but he joked about that cake for decades, lol.

And then there was the time in college when I tried making my mom's "no fail" pie crust recipe. Well, I failed and got so frustrated that I wadded up the dough into a ball and threw it at the kitchen wall. When I called my mom to tell her how her "no fail" pie crust recipe went, she laughed until tears ran down her face.

I eventually got much better at baking, lol.