When Recipes Go Wrong: My Strawberry Shortcake FAIL

I like trying new recipes. Since I’ve been cooking with different flours recently, sometimes thing go wrong. Terribly wrong!

This recipe really seemed simple enough. I mean look at the ingredients:

Okay so maybe the recipe called for almond flour and the novice baker in me assumed substituting coconut flour would work just fine. It didn’t. Not even a little bit.

Even though I might have used the ingredient list as more of a suggestion, I did follow the instructions to a T. I went through the motions:I sliced…I mashed…I stirred…I baked.

I FAILED.

Epically. This was supposed to be Strawberry Shortcake, but it was more like Strawberry ShortCRUMBS! All that hard work went straight into the trash can (this is where my husband would argue a dog would come in handy, but I would argue a dog wouldn’t have even touched these scraps!).

So, what is the takeaway? Sometimes baking disasters happen to good people! 🙂 Or perhaps, when cooking with new-to-you ingredients, don’t assume you know anything!