Baking Fail

Well it didn't take to long to have a baking fail post...

I decided I would try to make vanilla cupcakes a la Magnolia Bakery with my own Nutella frosting.  Sounds good right? 

Well....

Baking Attempt #1

The recipe seemed easy enough, butter, eggs, flour, vanilla, sugar...

Tip:  Make sure you read all of the directions and measurements.

In my effort to have less dishes, I used the 1/2 cup measuring cup for my sugar instead of the 1 cup measuring cup.  I knew I'd have to use the cup twice for the 2 cups of sugar called for in the recipe, but I forgot that I was using the 1/2 measure (which means I would have needed to add 4 1/2 measure cups).  Needless to say I only added 1 cup of sugar to the batter....

When I took them out of the oven they had pools of butter on them...When we tasted them we decided they tasted oddly enough like cornbread minus the corn...Strange...

Hubby did find a good use for them by adding pulled BBQ pork to them. 

Baking Attempt #2

Sooooooo I made them again, this time adding the correct amount of sugar.  They looked a little better and weren't floating in butter. 

Still, they did not taste as fabulous as I imagined them to be.  But they passed the hubby taste test so I made some frosting for them. 

Again this did not turn out as fabulous as I imagined.  Basically I added Nutella (amazing) to a buttercream frosting recipe.  Not terrible but not fantastic either.  I imagined a more gooey frosting than what I turned out.  So chalk it up to a baking fail.

- Kristi