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There is an endless supply of ill fated cooking attempts with me as the star. This one just happens to be a tribute to Bill Cosby who once served his kids chocolate cake for breakfast.
No one was threatening me with a bucket of ice water, I just wanted chocolate pancakes. Couldn’t be that hard right? Well I rummaged around in the pantry and found muffin mix. On the back of the mix was a picture of a chocolate bread loaf so clearly this was a multipurpose mix. I poured it in a bowl, added the right amount of milk and poured it into a pan. It was so thin it might as as well have been a crepe with mountains of chocolate chips sitting in the middle like pyramids. So I added more. In fact… I poured in the whole bowl. Mistake number two. This is the point of no return. I could have poured the mix into the muffin tin and saved breakfast, but I did not. I decided if I could not make pancakes, I was going to make a cake… on the stove.
It doesn’t look too bad does it? I thought it was going pretty well. I stuck a knife in it every couple of minutes to see if the middle was cooked all of the way through (I’m not totally oblivious), but after an hour the knife was still not coming out clean. I adjusted the heat and left it alone until this horrible burning smell wafted into the living room. Rushing back into the kitchen I flipped the burner off as fast as I could and surveyed the damages. The knife came out clean, so there was no point in throwing the whole thing away. I’m Scottish, we don’t throw away perfectly good food.
I scraped out what I could.
Needless to say, it looked horribly unappetizing. I took a fork and a knife, I squished it together an voilà! An entire package of muffin mix makes one medium piece of cake and not a very tasty piece at that. The next time I’m craving pancakes, it looks like it’s IHOP for me.
-Eliabeth
This made my entire day… I love it!
<3 It's genetic. My mom got up to make oatmeal, heated up the milk, made coffee, measured the oatmeal and promptly poured the oatmeal into the coffee. She said it wasn't terrible, just coffee flavored oatmeal.
Ha ha
I love your mom!
I relayed that to her and she told me to inform you that she got the oatmeal cooked properly this morning and the coffee on the side lol. She’s so proud.
Glad to hear!
I do like some porridge in the morning too.
Timely posting! I’m having pancakes for breakfast tomorrow. I’ll stick to the basic recipe!
Yes, I should have done the same and just had muffins. With that mixture they’re practically cupcakes without the frosting anyway but man I wanted pancakes.
“I was going to make a cake…on the stove” This is hysterical! So glad you wandered and found my blog! It sounds like something I would attempt. It always sounds like such a good idea at the time, too.
Doesn’t it! Hind sight is 20-20. All my ideas seem exceptionally reasonable as I’m contemplating them. It might have worked on a lower heat, but then the middle might never have cooked through or I could have starved waiting for it.
I’m glad I ran into your blog as well, thank you for returning the favor.
Ahh I had a similar experience recently I made a cake that turned out so flat my don asked me if it was a biscuit? I could even turn the cake in the baking ps
Sorry! You could turn take cake on its paper upside down and swing it around and it was welded to the paper. Shame we don’t have hazardous waste bins here!
ROFL. You Just reminded me of a recurring dream I was having near the end of college. I was running late for work so I got a to-go box from the school cafeteria. I hate half of the turkey burger and threw the rest out the window because I didn’t want it stinking up my car. Red and blue lights flashed behind me as I was pulled over and the cop asks if I know why I’m being pulled over. I told him no because I knew I wasn’t speeding and he starts to write me a ticket for littering.. I’m not one to argue with cops but in the dream I was feeling particularly bold so I point out that I only threw food out the window, the box itself was still on my feet and he was like, “no ma’aam. That’s school cafeteria food, that stuff’s not biodegradable.”
Very funny story! Tomorrow pancakes for breakfast
Now I understand the comment you left at my blog…LOL
Have a nice weekend!
PS.: Bill Cosby was one of my favorite TV shows.
Oh I just left you the link too ’cause your thread came up on my feed before this one did lol. Ignore it. <3 Bill Cosby was amazing. I not only loved his TV show but I saw him in "concert" once for lack of the right word and for some "unknown" reason, people around us didn't appreciate us saying the stories with him. Go figure. We also had several casetts and records. I think my favorite is "Noah."
Thanks for dropping by!
We have a Bill Cosby CD called Oh Baby that is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. I would recommend it to anyone.
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I occasionally, very very occasionally I hasten to add, have eaten chocolate cake for breakfast. I enjoyed your funny post.
Hehe thank you. I’m trying to think if I’ve actually eaten chocolate cake for breakfast and I don’t think I have. By the time that failure was done “baking” it was lunch.