10+ Epic Kitchen Fails That Will Make You Feel Better About Your Cooking Skills
Scrolling through recipes on Pinterest, Instagram, or any of the thousands of food blogs is sure to get your mouth watering. Sometimes the pictures can get you so inspired, you suddenly forget that you know nothing about spices and icing and somehow remember your way to the kitchen.
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Scrolling through recipes on Pinterest, Instagram, or any of the thousands of food blogs is sure to get your mouth watering. Sometimes the pictures can get you so inspired, you suddenly forget that you know nothing about spices and icing and somehow remember your way to the kitchen. Fast forward to a good few hours later, and all you have is a 'creation' that barely reminds you of the picture that got you so pumped to start cooking in the first place.
The list below presents you the funniest examples of those kitchen disappointments that will definitely make you giggle. What else can we say - mix together lack of skill and attention, add some laziness, and top it with an odd tendency to improvise, and here you have it - the recipe for a disaster.
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#1 Was Asked To Make Food Network's Brown Sugar Pecan Bears
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#2 Chocolate Hedgehog Cake
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#3 Adorable Rice Bear
#4 It's A Good Thing Cats Don't Care About Cake
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#5 Not So Much ‘Arrrrah, How Cute’ And More ‘Arrrrraahhh What The F*** Is That?'
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#6 My Wife Made Croissants For Breakfast. Nailed It!
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#7 Spongebob And Patrick Have Seen Things
#8 I Don’t Think This Project Could Have Been Saved
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#9 I'm No Cook But I Didn't Expect To Screw Up A Baked Potato
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#10 So Close...
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#11 My Wife Made A Dragon Cake For Her Mother's Birthday
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#12 I Made A Santa Shaped Bread From A Recipe I Found, It Turned Out A Bit Different From The Picture
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#13 Elmo Fail
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#14 Please Kill Me
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#15 Blueberry-Splosion
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#16 My Dad Said He'd Made Macarons. Expectation Vs. Reality. Still Tasted Divine Though
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#17 They Are Very Yummy Cupcakes That Are Decorated In A Scarier Than Intended Manner
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#18 Stained Glass Cookies
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#19 Merry Christmas Everyone
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#20 Ordered Cake On Left, Received Cake On Right
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#21 Homemade Smiley Face Fries
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#22 This Makes Me Laugh So Much Every Time I See It That Maybe It Was Worth The Fail
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#23 Olaf Quesadillas
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#24 Ordered A Birthday Cake For My Niece
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#25 Bunny Rolls
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#26 Rainbow Heart Cookies Surprise
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#27 Girlfriend's Halloween Themed Cupcakes
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#28 Chocolate Covered Banana Penguins
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#29 Grooms Cake Disaster, What We Wanted Vs. What We Got
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#30 I Would Never Attempt This Again
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#31 Paint Splatter Cake
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#32 We Tried To Be Creative This Christmas. It Didn't Work Out So Well
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#33 Apparently I’m Still In A Halloween Mindset
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#34 My Birthday Cake Attempt. To Be Fair I Had Quite A Few Drinks Beforehand And Not The Right Cooking Utensils
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#35 The Force Is Weak With This One
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#36 There Are No Words. My Sister Asked For A Peppa Pig Cake. This Is What I Made
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#37 Nailed It!
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#38 I'm Not Good At Frosting
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#39 Expectations Vs. Reality: Cake Edition
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#40 Friend Ordered Guitar Cake. Cake Maker Said She Could Make An Exact Replica
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#41 Pinterest Finger Cookie Failure My Friend Did. They Were Still Delicious
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#42 These Were Supposed To Be A Cute Halloween Surprise For The Grandkids
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#43 Devilled Egg Chicks
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#44 I Saw A Thing. I Tried To Make A Thing. I Shouldn't Try To Make Things
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#45 Matcha Cake Did Not Matcha Expectations
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#46 Dinosaur Cake
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#47 Cinna-Meh Turkeys
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#48 Spinach Cups For Dinner Tonight
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#49 Thanks Pinterest!
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#50 My First Attempt At Decorating A Nice Birthday Cake. (I Apologized Profusely To My Mom As I Gave It To Her.)
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#51 Isn’t It Adorable?
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#52 My Panda Bread Did Not Turn Out As Expected
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#53 My Friend Plays The Guitar
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#54 My Lol Themed Birthday Cake. The Baker Actually Thought He Could Free-Hand It
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#55 I Made This For My Son’s 2nd Birthday Party. My Timings Were Slightly Off And I Only Had Ten Minutes To Ice The Cake
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#56 My Sister And I Attempted To Make A Kinder Egg Cake For My Nephew
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#57 Nailed This Minifigure Cake
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#58 Snow White Cake
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#59 Unicorn Of The Sea
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#60 Was Appointed To Make A Crepe Cake For An Office Birthday. The Result... A Load Of Crepes
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#61 This Was For A Work Party, We Thought The Beaver Cupcakes Would Be Hilarious. And It Was, Hilariously Awful
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#62 Duck Cake
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#63 My Brother Was Tasked With Making The Cookies For His Daughters Second Birthday
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#64 Anime Cake Fail
#65 Candy Cane Cookies?
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#66 My Friend Made A Cake. Nailed It
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#67 Mug Cake
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#68 I Should Have Known Once They Came Out With Cankles
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#69 Made My Wife A Caramel Cake For Her Birthday
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#70 Japanese Cheesecake
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#71 My Panda Cupcakes Turned Out Looking Rather Unfortunate With Each One Sporting A Grimace Worse Than The Next
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#72 My Aunt Ordered This Cute Monster Cake For Her Son's Birthday And This Is What They Gave Her
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#73 "It Looks Like An Elf Exploded Over Your Cookies."
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#74 My Toddler Daughter Couldn’t Figure Out What It Was Supposed To Be
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#75 I Made A Mistake Early In The Process And That's Why This Is An Exorcist Swan
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#76 Vegan Breakfast, Banana Crepes And Cashew Cream With Blueberry Sauce. I Think I Should Stick To Singing
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#77 I Still Ate Them
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#78 This Was A Surprise For My Wife For When She Woke Up On Valentine’s Day
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#79 Nailed It
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#80 Next Time I Will Change Nothing Because I Will Not Be Attempting This One Again
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#81 My 4 Year-Olds Wanted An Airplane Cookie To Decorate. Welp...
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#82 The Only Way This Cake Can Be Saved Is To Be Eaten. Quickly
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#83 My Daughter Attempted To Make Peanut Butter Cookies In The Shapes Of Cute Little Bears To Sell At The School Bake Sale. She Nailed It
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#84 Yogurt Covered Berries
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#85 Blueberry Pie Fudge
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#86 Our Stab At A Crescent Roll Christmas Tree. Pretty Sure It Looks Like A Dinosaur
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#87 It Looked Super Easy And Really Delicious So I Thought It Would Be The Perfect Thing For A Low-Key Morning. After This, I Just Had Mimosas For Breakfast
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#88 I'm Sorry Stitch
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#89 Gingerbread House Village. Everything Tastes Great Though
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#90 Can We Fix It? Nope
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#91 Wife Tried To Make Mozzarella Sticks From An Online Recipe, I'd Say She Nailed It
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#92 Pretzel Kiss Candy Treat
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#93 Hubby's Cake - Did I Nail It? Or Did I Nail It?
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#94 I Thought It Would Be Sweet To Make Teabag Shortbread Cookies For My Friend For Her Wedding Shower
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#95 M&M Cookies
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#96 Bb-8 Cake
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#97 Super Delicious, But Fail
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#98 Drunken Cookie Monster Cocktail? Nailed It
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#99 Avengers Pancakes
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#100 My Sister In Law's Chocolate Chip Pie
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#101 This Is Why I'm Not An Artist
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#102 Apple Pie Fries
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#103 Pinterest Vs. Reality
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#104 My Cousin Made These For Work
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#105 Salted Pretzel Caramel Brownies
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#106 Simone's Vegan Hamantaschen Fail
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#107 Pinterest Fail
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#108 Expectations Vs. Reality
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#109 Checkered Cake
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#110 It Was Suppose To Be Pretty, But It Turned Out Anything But...
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#111 Halloween Pretzels (With The Help Of A 5 Year Old)
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#112 Mother In Law Used The Picture On The Left For Reference... Nailed It
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#113 Well Here Is My Fail For Tonight
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#114 Commodores Christmas Tradition
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#115 Rainbow Drink: Nailed It
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#116 The Marshmallows Caught On Fire In The Oven
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#117 Cinnamon Twists. Unashamed, My Family And I Still Ate Them. They Tasted Like Butter
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#118 My Attempt To Roast Shrimps In The Oven
#119 Fondant Fire Truck Cake
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#120 Ordered The Cake On The Left, Got The One On The Right
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#121 I'm Crossposting This From R/funny Since People Are Saying I Should. Ordered The Cake On The Right, For The Cake On The Left
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#122 Lemon Meringue Cupcakes. Will Take Some Time Before I Can Take Orders
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#123 My Wife Bought Me Cat Face Egg Moulds
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#124 Wife Made Me A Birthday Cake. Nailed It
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#125 These Panda Rice Balls Are Hard To Bear
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#126 Chevron Cake Roll
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#127 Poinsettia Cookies
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#128 My Christmas Is Ruined
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#129 Caramel-Banana Upside Down Cake
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#130 Expectation Vs. Reality Pancake Edition
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#131 I Tried
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#132 Most Of The Recipes Classify Themselves As “Easy” But This Was A Disaster! As The Falafel Patties Cooked In The Oil, They Disintegrated Before Our Eyes
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#133 I Can Now Be A Part From Those "Expectations Vs. Reality" Pictures Compilation
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#134 Jamie Oliver's Vegan M'hanncha (Snake) And Our Slug. It Was Still Delicious, If Not Beautiful To Look At
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#135 Chocolate Pretzel Bites
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#136 Oh Nice Cookie Dice
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#137 Wookiee Cookies
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#138 Left Shark Cookie
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#139 Rainbow Hamantaschen
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#140 Mint Chocolate Cupcakes
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#141 Throwback To My First Attempt At Blackforest Cake
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#142 I Love Blueberry Muffins So I Decided To Give It A Try
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#143 Cinnamon Rope. Nailed It
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#144 My Wife Says She Followed The Instructions
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#145 Make Cloud Eggs They Said, Its Easy They Said. Above Is How My Cloud Eggs Should Have Looked. Below Is How They Turned Out. Still Tasted Good Though
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#146 Watermellon Jello
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#147 Fail With Frankenstein’s Monster Cupcakes
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#148 I Don’t Know How To Bake, If That Wasn’t Already Evident
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#149 Princess Dress Made From Cupcakes
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#150 Nemo Cupcakes
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#151 Lightning Mcqueen Cars Cupcakes
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#152 Pinata Cookies
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#153 I Tried To Make A Recipe From Reddit And I'm Not Sure I Converted Metric To American Correctly
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#154 Peeps Cake With A Surprise
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#155 Little Did I Know Every Single One Of My Cute Xmas Trees Would Crack Into Some Kind Of Green Monstrosity
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#156 Apple Rose Tarts
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#157 I Tried To Impress My Girlfriend With Some Simple Baking. Instructions Unclear
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#158 So Me And Jacqueline Decided To Make This Nutella Christmas Tree. I Think It Went Well
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#159 Nailed It
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#160 Favorite Cookie Of The Holiday Season
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#161 This Experience Was A Learning Curve For My Friend And I
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#162 Attempted "Low Cal Chocolate Muffins". Got Rickety Cricket Energy Balls
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#163 What I Did? I Don’t Know! But It’s Nowhere Near The Expectations
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#164 Brie And Cranberry Pinwheels. I Followed All The Directions
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#165 Instead Of A Salted Caramel Sauce, I Ended Up With Salted Caramel Hard Candy
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#166 Rainbow Cake
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#167 Hot Chocolate Ornaments
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#168 Waffle Iron Omelette
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#169 Sugar Cookies
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#170 Christmas Cookies
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#171 American Flag Cake
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#172 Minecraft Cupcakes
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#173 Monkey Cake Pops
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#174 Jalapeno Popper Dogs
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#175 Happy Birthday To Elmo's Biggest Fan Turning Two (Halloween Elmo)
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#176 Who Knew You Could Fail This Badly At Making French Macarons?
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#177 Horror Cupcakes
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#178 Roomie Tried To Make Peach Sangria From Pinterest. Nailed It
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#179 Sheep Cupcakes
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#180 My Mother's Snowman Cookies
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#181 Turned The Whole Patriotic Cake Into A Soggy Mess
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#182 Expectation Vs. Reality
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#183 Fail: Crispy Baked Spring Rolls
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#184 Moral Of It All: Never Try To Wing A Recipe You’ve Never Tried Before
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#185 Cake With Polka Dots? Polka Not
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#186 At Least These Peeps Weren’t Too Pretty To Eat
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#187 I Thought I Read The Directions Correctly, But Apparently I Skipped Step 2 And Froze The Cookie Dough Without Molding It First. Oops
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#188 If You Could Get Past The Initial Impression That You Were About To Eat Meatloaf For Dessert, You Were In For A Treat Because It Tasted Great
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#189 We Saw These Cute Cookies And Thought They Would Be Fun To Make
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#190 Oreo Truffles
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#191 I Have No Idea Where It Went Wrong
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#192 I Didn’t “Allow Macarons To Air Out For At Least 1 Hour, And Up To 2 Hours.” This Is What Happened
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#193 We Tried To Make These Cute Pumpkin Treats, But It Was A Disaster
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#194 Everything Was Going Perfectly – Melted Chocolate And Little Cake Balls. But When Dipped In Chocolate, The Sticks Fell Completely Out And The Balls Fell Apart
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#195 Strawberry Shame. Just Bought Strawberries, Tossed Them In The Oven, Remembered Them 4 Hours Later
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#196 Peppermint Christmas
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#197 Pepperoni Football Cheeseball
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#198 Hedgehog Cookies
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#199 Deviled Eggs
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#200 Raspberry Chocolate Vegan Cupcakes
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#201 Reindeer Cookies
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#202 Cookie Monster Bark That I Attempted
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#203 Eggspectation Vs. Reality
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#204 These Were Supposed To Be A “Last Day Of Work” Easter Treat. Looks Like I’ll Be Running To The Store In The Morning Instead
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#205 These Cookies Were Going To Look As If They Were Bought From A Bakery When We Were Done. Or So We Thought
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#206 Cookie Monster Cupcakes
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#207 Melted Yarn Cookies
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