Culinary Failure.....

These week , I am going to come right out and say it....This week my desserts have been awful. The pumpkin pie, I left the foil on the edge of the crust too long and it didn't brown properly, My sweet yeast bread cinnamon Buns.FAILURE. I don't know where I failed there because these are fail proof buns but I failed. It was terrible. They just weren't quite ''right''

The squirrels even snubbed them this morning. But my hunger for desserts prevails. Ok I did succeed with one thing this week and that was a meat loaf recipe that came out so surprisingly well my son said that he LOVED it and wanted me to make it ALL the time:) I made it with Whole Wheat Nut Bread instead of bread crumbs and I also made my own Barbecue sauce for it. Whatever it was it did the trick.

Ok back to desserts! So I am guilty. I went out tonight and got boxed Carrot cake and pre-made frosting. I am going to mix the Dunkin Hines Frosting with a half a package of cream cheese because the pre-made Cream Cheese Frosting never tastes like homemade with the tang of the cream cheese. I don't know why that is but I am going to try throwing the cream cheese in with it to see how that goes.

So I am ashamed of my boxed cake but I won't be ashamed to scarf down a labor free Carrot Cake with loads of frosting.

I just don't know why my desserts are failures lately. Actually I know. It is always some little thing. I gave my pie away. It is edible. Someone else might even say it was good , but it just wasn't good *enough.

So out of sweet tooth desperation I have resorted , this week anyway , to boxed cake.

But next week I return....Martha Stewart's Cream Cheese Pound Cake is going to be my birthday cake. I'm making it...I don't care...It is some good cake. Seriously good cake.