Have you ever had a recipe disaster that is very funny?

Question

I never had one, but I found a funny one in a Racheal Ray magazing that I have to share!
Okay, so this lady's 13 year old daughter never baked. But one day the daughter called her mom at work and said, "Mom, I made some cupcakes. But how do I get them out of the pan and into those little paper things?" LOL! Post yours! Funniest one gets best answer!

Answer 1

This is my worst. I was making Cornish game hens for just the 2 of us for Thanksgiving. They were already in the oven when my family called and invited us to dinner at their place. I turned down the oven and we of course went to their place thinking we'd be back in a couple hours. Well, my family lets the booze flow freely (we took a cab, don't worry), we got a bit tipsy, so when we got back to our house I shut the oven off thinking my husband had put the hens in the fridge.

About 4-5 days later there was getting to be a weird smell in the kitchen. And it was a warm winter so we hadn't been using the oven. Finally I opened the oven door to put in bread dough. The pan was still in there, and the hens, and they were covered in maggots! All squirming around! I screamed, called my hubby at work in absolute panic asking what to do?? He said turn the oven back on and roast them to kill them. I did, and it stunk, I was spraying air freshener all over the kitchen, I finally turned the oven off, let them cool down, then tossed the hens, maggots, AND the pan in the outside trash. While holding a dishcloth over my face.

I'm surprised I didn't throw up during any of that. That was two years ago and our first Thanksgiving. We laugh about it now.

Answer 2

I can laugh at this now... but I was in tears when it happened. My mom's entire family has always gotten together for Thanksgiving, but it was never hosted at our house because my mom CANNOT cook. So I had no background in preparing a thanksgiving dinner. My first Thanksgiving 500+ miles from home I decided to fix a turkey and all the trimmings to ward off some homesickness.

Two days before thanksgiving, I went to the grocery store and was amazed at how many frozen turkeys were left. I grabbed the smallest one. Come Thanksgiving, I was shocked to discover it was still frozen! In tears, I put the turkey in the sink and filled it with hot water over and over again begging for it to thaw.

My fiance and I ended up at Cracker Barrell for Thanksgiving dinner that year. Completely defeated I called my family all gathered at my aunts house. One aunt assured me that I'd look back on it and laugh one day and she was right. I can't drive by a Cracker Barrell now without laughing.

btw- I got it right the next year and took pictures of my beautiful bird, which were emailed to the family as proof that I'd learned from my mistake!

Answer 3

When I first got married I had no idea how to cook and we were on a serious budget. So I bought a whole chicken because it was cheaper than other selections of chicken and I roasted it in the oven and my husband that it was the most juiciest thing he ever at until he remove the breast and saw I didn't clean out the cavity. Gross, I know. Everyone started giving me cookbooks after that and until this day I have never cooked a whole chicken.

Answer 4

Once when I was about 10 and my sister was 6, we decided to make peanut butter cookies. My mom was in the shower at the time and my dad at work, so no one was watching us so we pulled out the betty crocker cookbook and found our recipe.
So we got everything ready, then the recipe had said "1/4 cup of baking soda" or something like that. So we weren't too bright so umm... my little sister was like "oh well what kind do you think they are talking about?" and I thought that they were talking about like drinking soda, not baking soda.
So I said " Well we don't have any Sprite, so lets add umm... BIG RED!" So we added it and our dough was SO! watery so we decided to add more flour. Then i was like "WOW these cookies are pink. Cool!" Then we popped them into the oven and my mom walked into the kitchen and asked why our dough was pink and we told her and she laughed.

Answer 5

My husband comes from quite a large family and for the holidays we always get together. My mother in law not very sure of my cooking skills asked me to bring a jello mold. I had no idea what the heck a jello mold was. So I tried to wing it and make a jello fish bowl. Now in theory it seemed like a brilliant idea...picture this. Jelly beans for the gravel, berry berry blue jello for the water, Swedish fish, plastic greenery like in real fish bowls. Sounds decent right. Well the second the liquid jello hits jelly beans the color washes of them and the jello turns a really nasty color. Kind of like a swamp so now for every holiday they bring up the fact that my jello fish bowl turned into a swamp.

Answer 6

I made a cake for my mom once, and usually my cakes turn out very well, but this time the middle of one of the layers stuck to the pan, so the cake had a hole in the middle of the bottom layer. I decided to fill the hole with frosting, so when we cut slices half the slices were pure frosting.
Also, one time my mom made a tuna casserole, and she put the left overs in the fridge, well my dad didn't like it that much and after a few days of eating it he insisted it was growing, so he took it out and buried it in the backyard.

Answer 7

A friend of mine once made and brought a cake to a Halloween party. It was a "litter box cake." The cake looked like cat litter and he served it in a (new-clean) litter box. It was complete with buried Tootsie Rolls! It looked so gross that nobody wanted to eat it.

My worst cooking effort was one time I decided to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I forgot a critical ingredient--eggs. The cookies were very flat and crumbling.

Answer 8

once, when i was very young i deciede to make a pound cake from scratch. I thought I followed the directions but I must not have 'cause it weighed about 5 lbs. when it came out of the oven!! My mom and sister were laughing and I was about to cry with embarassment and frustration when my sister picked it up slipped it onto her wrist and started twirling it around like a hula hoop!!!!
It was a while before I tried another cake from scratch and when I did you can be sure I really followed the directions.

Answer 9

When I was eleven years old, I tried to make chocolate fudge using the marshmallow cream recipe. I didn't boil it long enough and when it hardened, there were all sorts of unmelted chocolate chips and some gritty things. (a combination of unstirred sugar and partially melted chips.) My father was very kind and ate it anyway. My brother and sisters just laughed, but everyone ate it. They dubbed the "new creation" "Deb's Grits and Chips"

Answer 10

my step-bros use to throw stuff together in a bowl and bake it, it would turn out to be good but could never remember the recipe. My husband made tea one time a threw a lot of different bags it was gross! LOL