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"Haste makes Mistakes". Proverbs 19:2

One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is baking. Someday my dream is to open a European-style pastry shop called 'Holy Crepe'. I think it could be amazing! Anyways, if you know me at all you know that I will usually show up places with some sort of baked good. But the fact that I bake so much means that I make LOTS of mistakes. Usually just silly things...like forgetting something's in the oven and burning it or dropping it down the stairs when leaving the house or turning the oven much higher than recommended so that it will cook 'quicker'. Often my lack of patience will result in some silly stuff. Like the infamous time I made my friend Shauna a baby shower cake...It took me all day and I was up past midnight making it so that it would be ready for the baby shower. I decided to do the 'wise thing' and leave it in my car so that it would be all ready to go when I delivered in the morning. Except that it was the middle of the summer and I forgot that heat is not always the best thing for pastry products. (See exhibit A)

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After
Just this past Saturday I went to a birthday party and made 50 cupcakes for the party. Unfortunately since it was a birthday party there was lots of other cake there (go figure...cake, at a birthday party?) Anyways, there were lots of left over cupcakes that I had to bring home. I had them on a platter and just tossed it in the back seat of my car. Again, not the wisest choice, but I didn't put a ton of thought into it. At the first red light I hit the brakes and of course the platter went sliding, cupcakes went flying, and I ended up with a car that looked like a bakery had thrown up. When I pulled over I was so annoyed with myself...perfectly good cupcakes! I figured, hey...five second rule, right? (As I dug chocolate frosting and red velvet cake out of the carpet fibers and picked up sprinkles one by one). Not so sure that the five second rule applies when there is hair and frosting involved. Yuck!
So, I decided to do the wise thing and put each cupcake directly back into the cupcake tins so they wouldn't slide around on the platter and then placed the tins onto the backseat. Aren't I smart? I continued driving home, thinking how silly I was for dumping the cupcakes when all of a sudden the car in front of me stopped short and everything in my car went flying again...including, you guessed it, the cupcakes. More frosting, more sprinkles...no more five second rule. What's the saying...'Fool me twice, shame on me?' Now I sound like George W.

You would think based on that experience I would travel less with baked goods. That didn't stop me today when I made a trifle to bring to work. I was trying to hold it on the front seat with one hand while driving with the other. I looked over to see whip cream all over the car seat. I brought it into the church and as I walked by the mirror I noticed I also had whip cream all over my sleeves, scarf, and coat. Will I ever learn?

1 comments:

Shauna said...

But your baked goods are always so tasty! so keep on baking!