Easter Throwback

So, I've been meaning to write this post since Easter, and in the spirit of finals' week, I'm doing it.

This is quite a throw-back, actually. I made baba ganouj again, but we didn't have any sesame seeds to make tahini, and I was too lazy to go out and buy some, so I just used sesame oil instead. It just didn't have the same taste, but it was still delicious.

The rest of the appetizer spread: salsa, organic corn chips, carrots, hummus, guac, baba ganouj, and some sort of pastry thing my aunt brought...

For dessert we usually have a lamb cake: pound cake with coconut frosting, cut and pieced in the 3D shape of a lamb. When I was little we would always buy the Sara Lee family size pound cake and cut that up. We'd frost it with canned frosting and coconut flakes. But after I caught the baking bug, I'd make the pound cake myself. Each year I'd try a different kind of frosting. This year I flavored the pound cake with coconut and almond and made Italian buttercream. I really do enjoy making complicated desserts and spending hours in the kitchen. But....no picture. Whoops.

Anyway, I wanted to make a raw dessert, and landed on this Twins' recipe. Perfect. I tweaked it a bit (how, I have no idea because I stupidly didn't write anything down, haha), but basically stuck to the recipe.

Before the dehydrator...

After the dehydrator...(ooo, apparently lights aren't my friends...)

Funny thing: someone had turned up the temp on the dehydrator, so I ended up baking the little cupcakes as opposed to dehydrating them...whoops. Hence they were a little dry. But had I not messed up, I'm sure they would have tasted much better!

I think it was ashamed of its dryness, so it was attempting to hide in the dark...

I wanted to concoct some kind of "cream cheese" frosting for them, so I blended some cashews with agave and some nutritional yeast. How did it taste? Just okay. It looked good, but it was really rich. I wouldn't do that again.

But I ate them! Apparently they are tasty to dogs, as I had one in my purse on the floor and my friend's dog snatched it out and nearly ate it, plastic bag and all. Haha...

Question: What's the biggest kitchen mishap or recipe mistake you've made?

Once I forgot to put eggs in a cake batter, which made the cupcakes turn out like cookies...but they didn't taste too bad!

If you do mess up a recipe, will you eat it or do you just throw it out?

For me, even if it tastes horrible, I'll probably eat it because I think I feel personally responsible, haha...