bloody baking - I am useless (light hearted)

[outofcontrol2014]

Never, ever make a promise to help someone with catering when you are in the pub with them and a bit tiddly.

I broke this rule with my friend, and in a drunken haze promised to deliver 40 chocolate cupcakes for a birthday this Saturday. They are for adults, so they need to be a bit posh and I am trying to do an American recipe that has a kind of ganache chocolatey bit in the middle.

I just made batter for 30 and only 8 of them are edible. The others were undercooked and collapsed, or perished when I set fire to the bloody silicone tin! The first I knew about it was when the fire alarm went off and the cat went beserk. I ended up throwing the tin out of the back door in a panic.

WIBU to call it a day for now and try again tomorrow?

The strange thing is, I did a trial run of these in the week - just made 6 - and they were fine. It's not the recipe.

Maybe I'm just having a bad day or measured something wrong (I did check, repeatedly, but I couldn't hand-on-heart swear I didn't make a mistake). 8 of the cupcakes are fine, which suggests I might just have taken them out of the oven too early?

UPDATE! - I did it!

35 cupcakes baked, iced and decorated from the original recipe.

I just took the other load out too early.

Thanks for all of your help!

Hurray!

Have ... I mean fun at the party!