I'm such an idiot aka tell me your baking fails

[QuestionableMouse]

Sister asked if I'd bake her a corned beef and onion pie. (Their oven is currently sitting in their garage due to a kitchen remodel)

My first mistake was saying yes in this heat 😂😂😂😩😩😩

Clearing down, pies baking in the oven. All. Good until. I moved the flour container and found the bastard onion. I totally forgot about it 😂😂😂😩😩😩

Oops. I'm sure it'll still taste good but it's a pretty key ingredient in a corned beef and onion pie 😂😂😂

and I won't mention the time I made lemon curd only to discover the lemon juice still sitting in the jug on the side. No wonder the damn stuff tasted mostly of egg

Back in the dark ages [I am very old] I was doing my Cookery Practical O' Level and had just popped the lemon dessert I had prepared into the oven to cook. The examiner wandered around to check our progress and compare it to the timetable we had also submitted. I thought I'd wipe my work station down as I was well ahead, and as I was doing so, spotted the bottle of milk under the table that should have been in the dessert!!!

I could have died!!!!

I confidently removed the dessert from the oven, poured it into a large mixing bowl and whisked the milk in. Then I poured it back into the dish and replaced the dish in the oven.
The examiner never noticed a thing and the dessert was fine!

I still make that dessert to this day - and have never again forgotten to add the milk!!!

I made muffins a few weeks ago. I have no idea why they did this...

I used to be a pastry chef.

For a while I would make cake mixture and leave it sitting in the tin until I was ready to put them in the oven (don't ask me why, probably to do with other things in there, can't remember).

Reading that the raising agents start working once they get wet was a bit of a lightbulb moment for me....

I moved to a new area, and made a cheese cake to enter in the local show. Making the cheesecake late the night before, and realised I’d forgot the cheese. Decided to chance it, looked fairly solid, set well (or so I thought). Came to collect it from the show, and realised I really shouldn’t have chanced it.

Is your sister always so cheeky??
As I was reading the post I knew this would be one of the first comments. I should have guessed it would have been the first sentence.
This one if the things that piss me me off about MN.
People are quick to jump on people when someone does something nice for someone else. The op acknowledges she could have said no. It is clearly a light hearted OP and every family works different.

I forgot to add sugar to the cakes I was making with the young people at work. They were taking them home as a treat for their carers. As I was putting things away I found a bowl of the sugar we had weighed but forgot to put in the bowl.
I didnt bother to ask if their carers liked them!!

Dropped my son’s third birthday cake taking it out of the oven. Stuck a tractor on it and called it a building site cake

@Cupidity I am howling at yours, something very similar happened to me!

@SheWranglesRugRats

Dropped my son’s third birthday cake taking it out of the oven. Stuck a tractor on it and called it a building site cake

See I love that! So clever. I wouldn't call it a fail.

My first recipe in high school was one I always remember. It was meant to be chocolate covered flapjacks. We melted the chocolate over a basin of hot water. I got a little of the water in the chocolate , but 12 year old me thought ah well, it doesn't matter I'll just mix it in

My parents were 'delighted' to be presented with flapjack covered with dry chocolate lumps but I remember they did eat it!