My attempt to make a 3-foot tall gingerbread house cost me $85 in melted royal icing and pure regret.

Has anyone else had a baking project just completely fall apart, literally, and what did you do with the salvageable pieces?

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carr.abby1mo ago

Turned my last collapsed cake into a very sad, very delicious trifle.

grant.anthony1mo ago

Honestly that's the best possible outcome. A collapsed cake is just a trifle that hasn't admitted what it is yet. You didn't make a mistake, you just did the assembly steps out of order. Now you have a built-in excuse to drown it in custard and call it a win.

emmaking1mo ago

Wait, did you say EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS just on icing? That's not a baking fail, that's a full-on financial crisis! I would have cried over the sink. My biggest disaster was a layer cake that slid apart, but the ingredients probably cost ten bucks total. What on earth did you do with all that melted icing, just pour it down the drain?

olivermason10d ago

Tbh @grant.anthony just changed my whole view on cake disasters. Trifle forever now.