I always seem to botch my baking in residence. The first time I baked for my Angus girls, my cookies were hard-as-rock because I didn't realize that the oven was 25-50 degrees hotter than marked and half of my cake came out of the pan because it wasn't greased well-enough. The second time I baked a cake with a silicone pan (that I specifically asked my mom to bring up for me) because I knew the cake would definitely come out of the pan. But this time, I totally forgot to grease it at all--therefore only half of my cake came out again. Today as I was baking for "Desserts with the Don," I was putting the biscotti back in the oven again after cutting it and I didn't put it in far enough before letting go. So in the presence of two residents who had stopped to say hi, the entire tray of half-baked biscotti flipped and all my biscotti ended up at the bottom of the oven. It was a dark moment, but my residents figured the oven was clean so we picked up the pieces, put it back on the baking sheet and continued baking it. And it turned out just fine!
P.S. My apple pie I also baked today turned out to be perfect, but maybe that's because I couldn't taste it due to a stuffy nose. Here's my not-so-secret recipe: The Perfect Apple Pie
