National Gingerbread Day | Gingerbread Loaf
Whoopsies. Day #156 of the national food holiday challenge and this is only the second “fail” of the year, the first being for National Taffy Day.
Man, I was so excited for National Gingerbread Day. I don’t know how to make gingerbread so I looked online for a really great recipe. The one that I found had a pretty picture, which is generally my first impression to run with, and the Gingerbread Loaf recipe seemed legit so I followed it, but it turned out to be a disaster.
The recipe instructed to cook the loaf for 45 minutes, but after that amount of time, the loaf was still jiggly. Sigh…
So, I allowed it to bake for another 20 minutes until it didn’t jiggle and instead had these burnt spots on top. I was convinced it was done. So convinced that I removed it from the oven and attempted to turn over onto a plate.
And the middle part came spilling out like an upside down volcano. The magma of gingerbread.
After that, there was no recovering. But, just like the failed cherry taffy, I will try again for gingerbread. Instead of the loaf, I’ll make cute gingerbread cookies!
Today is also National Ketchup Day! If you have tomatoes on hand, you can still go that route…
Haha, thanks! I’ve decided to follow the national food holidays on TheNibble.com and Cnn’s Eatocracy which don’t have National Ketchup Day. If I used all lists, I would go insane!
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