Not everyone was born to be a baker. The truth is that when it comes to cakes, cookies, and all forms of dessert, there are two types of people: bakers and eaters. A chosen few may fall into both categories, but we should all be honest with ourselves and our relationships to dessert. Personally speaking, I am an eater. In fact, my sweet tooth has been the source of many an unfortunate evening involving late-night calls to fast-food restaurants and bakeries that I'd like to pretend never happene…

Who else has completely turned the page on Thanksgiving and begun their Holiday baking, shopping, and decorating? We are a few days into December now, which means Holiday obsessives are officially allowed to be insufferable without any criticism from the Grinches of the world who think it's too early to play “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” No matter where you fall on this spectrum, you definitely have a lot of feelings about all the hoopla that comes with this time of year. One thing that is…

This baker is really trying to help out a new coffee shop owner , but she just won't listen. Who doesn't love a good baked good or two? If you're craving cake or cupcakes, it's all too easy to buy a box mix and whip something up at home. But when you're out, getting a sweet treat made by a professional baker can leave you dreaming about the dessert for a long time afterwards. Making a cake from scratch like the pros do takes a ton of time and effort. U/TioBaldicia knows all about that, since in…

How often do you accidentally ruin your meals? No matter how skilled you are as a chef or baker, there are going to be times that you totally mess up your recipe. For example, one person here forgot to label their flour and powdered sugar (although they taste and smell very different!). Their recipe got completely sabotaged because of this… and they aren't the only ones! Up next, these bosses had some utterly ridiculous requests for their employees, like one manager who “asked me if he could bo…

Food fails happen to all of us at some point. At least, I hope they do. I burnt an entire tray of bacon yesterday, and I'm a perfectly good chef who's nearly 30 years old. I put some bacon in the oven for 14 minutes at 400 degrees, thanks to the fastest Google search results. I was also making some scrambled eggs and pancakes at the same time, and, because I live my life on hard mode apparently, frantically waving a blanket in front of the fire alarm every minute or two. Lately, the fire alarm…

They did not nail it.

This is the newest version of “My dog ate my homework.” Apparently for one student, their excuse is that their project got eaten by their family! At some point while you were in high school, you probably had to do this assignment for your health class. Students often have to care for a fake baby as if it's a real baby. The fake baby can be an egg, a bag of flour, or, if you live in a wealthy school district, an electronic baby that cries throughout the day at random intervals. The project often…

Sometimes on a warm afternoon, the local kids will hold a bake sale . Maybe in your neighborhood they sell lemonade and chocolate chip cookies, and in others, kids sell baked goods , like breads or slices of bundt cakes. Of course, lemonade is a bit easier to make than baked goods. So parents might volunteer help out with that part. It's really sweet to see kids get excited about being little businesspeople for a day as they sit outside and play store keeper. Plus, if you live in a bustling are…

There is a lot to look forward to as Halloween approaches, but having to deal with difficult neighbors is certainly not one. For this Redditor's girlfriend, Halloween is an opportunity to flex her baking muscles to all the neighborhood kids and to make special Halloween-themed baked goods. However, this one new neighbor decided to make things exponentially harder for her. This neighbor caught wind that OP's girlfriend was big on homemade Halloween treats and decided to get ahead of things by gi…

Some friend groups last forever, others dissolve over time, and some, like this one, break up in a dramatic fashion . You make friends in high school or college, and over time, you might find that you have less and less in common. The classes you bonded over in college aren't there to tie your friendship together after you graduate, and life circumstances mean that someone you were once close with might have entirely different priorities now. It's one of those awkward parts of life that have to…

Revenge is a dish best served Betty Crocker-style!

Who doesn't know the tupperware rule?

There are few joys in life, like spending time with your family, but perhaps the exception is cooking with your family members. The kitchen can get way too crowded, even with just one extra person poking around. As one Redditor , u/RioA, posted on the r/Cooking subreddit, they were dealing with their mom rushing a chicken dish , and turning up the heat to get it to cook faster. Once you're done rolling your eyes at that line of logic, you'll see that the poster asked if anyone else could commis…

All's well that ends well — right? This internet user returned over a year later to provide an update on the family conflict that they had asked for the internet for advice on. The user is a baker who inherited her grandmother's secret spice cake recipe. The grandmother had left an open invitation to any member of the family who wanted to learn the recipe; all they had to do was join grandma for a baking session. To the poor dying grandmother's dismay, the poster of the thread (OP) was the only…

This isn't baking, this is war.

This is the baking drama that the world deserves.