I once tried to make a fruit cake. It said to add the whisked eggs while the mixture was warm. It was too hot, the eggs scrambled and then the whole thing turned to toffee. Didn't bake another cake for 30 years.

Why is this a challenge? I swear I made it an ask pandas

Once made the common mistake of mixing up baking soda and baking powder. Made the Nightmare Cake (my family named it that) my dad tried it and literally had to chug from the milk carton then threw up in the sick it was so bad tasting. It took me a year before I baked again

I marinated shrimp in white wine vs. deglazing the pan with it. It wasn't edible and kinda turned me against cooking shrimp. I've learned what it means to deglaze a pan in the 20 years since... Beer, wine, garlic soy, meat or veggie broth. I'm going to make some gumbo with shrimp and sausage next week. I'm hoping to redeem myself ;)

I managed to screw up Bisquick biscuits earlier today. They were too dry and they came out thick and heavy instead of fluffy.

Don't remember what I was making but I remember the recipe called for 4 cloves of garlic I had just pulled 5 sixteen hour days in a row and my brain saw 4 bulbs of garlic. They say you can never have too much garlic I found out that day you definitely can have too much garlic in a recipe. LOL

I'd say the worst cooking attempt I ever had was when I tried making a Japanese styled curry with some Golden Curry mix that I purchased from a Japanese grocery store. It was intended to go over a bed of rice, and the curry mix was to be cooked with onions, carrots, potatoes, and beef. I put in too much water, and made a curry soup instead, rather than having a sauce like consistency. Live and learn.