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My 6 year old "helped" with the birthday cake and I almost threw the whole thing in the trash
So last Saturday I had 90 minutes before my daughter's 7th birthday party at our place in Akron and I still had to frost the cake. I had baked two 9 inch rounds the night before and they came out fine, cooling on the rack while I cleaned up. Turned my back for maybe 2 minutes to grab the sprinkles and my 6 year old had climbed on a chair and dumped almost a full cup of chocolate chips into the buttercream I just finished whipping. Not folded in, dumped. I stood there staring at this lumpy gray brown bowl ready to cry. My first instinct was to scrape it all in the bin and start over but I had no more powdered sugar in the house. So instead I whipped it on high for like 3 minutes to break the chips down and honestly it turned into this cookies and cream situation that looked intentional. Everybody at the party asked for the recipe and I just said oh it's a family thing. The real lesson is if you ever panic about frosting, more mixing fixes a lot more than you'd think. So what's your worst kid in the kitchen moment, and did you save it or scrap it?
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johnb955d ago
Man, isn't that just how life works though? You're scrambling and everything's a mess and then you just keep going and somehow it turns into the thing people like most. Half the stuff I'm proudest of came out of some dumb accident I was sure I'd ruined.
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