Big Hot Mess Baking

On Top Chef recently, one of the contestants

assigned the dessert category said,

“Oh no, that’s sooooo scientific.”


So THAT’S the problem.


I am a big hot mess baker,

who has good intentions

and high hopes,

with a counterpart that is my kindred spirit.


Meet Counterpart.

Counterpart is a 1989 model oven

that has extreme heat tendencies,

or plays possum.

And yes, I am showing you the inside of my oven.

Since the oven light hasn’t worked since who knows when,

I have to use this.

Yes,

I have to shine a flashlight

into the oven at the

oven thermometer

to see

if this is an extreme heat day

or a possum day.



Today was a good day

for

Counterpart.

We mixed up Pioneer Woman’s chocolate sheet cake,

with all of the licking that involves.