Baking is complex sometimes. It is super frustrating when it goes wrong. >:( Like when you buy new bake-ware, the last thing I'm thinking about is the temperature reacting differently to the alloy. Then it comes out burnt at the bottom or uncooked in the middle! To top it all off I can be a perfectionist sometimes.
Blah! Honourable mention is the best I've had. Which is kind of like joint second place or something. I made a baked cheesecake and was determined to win so I took all kinds of risks and made something that had about a million different ways of going wrong.
I went for an alcoholic cheesecake with swirls of Bailey's Irish Cream and Framboise raspberry liqueur. I was going for an old-school raspberry ripple effect to kind of be jolly and I thought I'd get bonus points because of the technical difficulties of not only baking cream and alcohol but of keeping the ripple effect stable throughout the baking process.
If I made ten of them, I think nine would fail. I really thought I was going to win. But the same person wins every year. It's a bit of a stitch-up. :/
It would have been awesome if you had won first place with a confection like that. Participating in a baking competition seems like a lot of fun. I would like to try my hand at it at least once.
Like when you buy new bake-ware, the last thing I'm thinking about is the temperature reacting differently to the alloy. Then it comes out burnt at the bottom or uncooked in the middle! To top it all off I can be a perfectionist sometimes.
What happened in the competitions? :}
I went for an alcoholic cheesecake with swirls of Bailey's Irish Cream and Framboise raspberry liqueur. I was going for an old-school raspberry ripple effect to kind of be jolly and I thought I'd get bonus points because of the technical difficulties of not only baking cream and alcohol but of keeping the ripple effect stable throughout the baking process.
If I made ten of them, I think nine would fail. I really thought I was going to win. But the same person wins every year. It's a bit of a stitch-up. :/
It would have been awesome if you had won first place with a confection like that. Participating in a baking competition seems like a lot of fun. I would like to try my hand at it at least once.
If you enter again, you have my blessing. :D