Cooking ...

I'm sorry, but I swear it's all I did yesterday. I literally felt like I stood in the kitchen all day long, and man .... did I have the dishes to show for it. My kitchen looked like a tornado blew threw!

Last night was Bunco and it's been a while since I've gone, so I decided that last night I'd rush home from Katherine's dance lessons and show up 45 minutes late and just chat. Carolyn was hosting, so I offered to help her out and make some food and bring it over before dance.

For some TERRIBLE reason, I thought that it'd be a good (no GREAT) night to try out a new recipe. What was I thinking? I mean really....

I decided to make a chocolate ganache cake, but upon fully reading the recipe, I discovered that it was only for an 8 inch cake, and of couse I had already started baking. Definitely not big enough... No problem, I'll double it. Oh that was a stroke of genus! What size pan do you use when you double an 8 inch round? Not a clue! UUUUGH... So I call ALL my friends who can remotely cook, and no one knew for sure. So, being the innovative girl I am, I decide that cupcakes are in the way to go! Great idea... NOT! After all... how long do you cook them, at what temp, and will they rise?

After some thought, I decided that no, they shouldn't rise much as they didn't have any baking powder and I didn't use cake flour. WRONG! All but about 4 of the 24 ran over in the oven...

Let's just say that they weren't pretty. Down right ugly would be more honest..... Actually, they were so bad, that I took off the cupcake wrappers and dipped them in chocolate ganache. Still ugly.... Oh, and I'm pretty sure that there weren't two in the batch that were the same size...

Thankfully, I have some nice neighbors who actually ate the things!