I hate it when I screw up a recipe.

[CheshireGrin]

I can't even count how many things I did wrong. I was trying a new recipe for Maple-Stout Quick Bread. (Sounds great, right?) It should have been easy!

First, my butter came out melted rather than softened. Distracted by that, I didn't read carefully enough. So you know how most baking recipes call for a group of ingredients mixed in one bowl, then a group in a second bowl, then combine? Well this one called for 3 different bowls, which of course I didn't realize until too late and I had everything in the wrong bowls. So between that and the melted butter (and the fact that I really should have used an electric mixer but ours broke and we haven't gotten around to replacing it yet), the batter fought me tooth and nail and just would not form the right consistency. 

THEN I suddenly realized that I had also fucked up the amount of one of the ingredients, because I was doubling the recipe as I went in order to make two loaves (which as we all know tends to get problematic anyway) and there was one ingredient that I hadn't doubled. Luckily I realized in time to add it at the end, which actually helped the consistency of the batter quite  a bit, but without the electric mixer I still couldn't quite manage to get all the lumps out. I hate lumpy batter. 

So now it's in the oven. Think it'll be any good?

[sequins]

I hate lumpy batter but let's hope it turns out good!!

[mrsukyankee]

Hoping the best!

[CheshireGrin]

Baking fail. :-(

It tastes okay, but didn't hold together well, so the loaves kind of disintegrated when I tried to get them out of the pans. Oh well.

[livinitup]

I think you're being too hard on yourself for a first-go on this recipe. I learn a lot from trying a new recipe. You learned a lot here. Anyway, very ambitious for not having an electric mixer!

[CheshireGrin]

Thanks, livinitup. :-)

[UnderProtest]

Maple Stout crumble? Or Maple Stout bread pudding?

[MixedBerryJam]

That does sound good. I bet it'll taste fine; if there's any problem at all it might be with texture. But I could live wit that if I meant I could eat maple stout bread. ETA: Eh, I gotta learn to read all the way through. Texture, amirite?

[compassrose]

Boo! Does it taste good enough for a second try?