Epic Fail

From time to time we all have our "off days", the days where things just can't seem to go right regardless of how hard you try.  Either your dropping things, destroying icing details, poking your finger in cake, burning cake.. etc.    Need I continue?

This week was totally one of those weeks for me.  Starting with saturday which was so incredibly busy, I had 16 cake orders and only an 8 hour shift to complete them.  I made three minor mistakes on cake orders, enough to make you put down the icing bag and walk away for a break.

The real mess came on sunday when I was baking cookies.  I walked away from the bakery to check my tables and I had become distracted by a customer, and all it took was 4 minutes to burn the hell out of those cookies.

So I threw most of that batch away and set up another rack to replace the ones I burned.  Sure enough I baked them off and forgot about the timer.  So not once, but twice did I burn the cookies!!!  About $80 worth of cookies I had burned..

Nothing makes you feel worse than destroying something that you've wasted so much time on.

However on the upside I did complete a beautiful double layer half sheet square for a customer.  Enjoy the picture for now, i'll add some detail about it later.

Have a great week, without failure!  See you thursday