I had a flop.

Today is TSCT and I nervous. 

Melati authors Tequila Stakes Croquet, she and her husband host a tournament each year and we've been invited as part of the blogger group.  I think there will be four of us (The PMA, African Kelli, Feasting in Phoenix and myself).  So this should be a moment for me to put money where my mouth is.  I've been blogging about all this food I'm cooking, I'd dare say that I bragged about some of it.  AND I HAD A FLOP!

I tuck away recipes that I want to try and I've been saving this ginger carrot cake gem.  To keep all the details short, I was having a really great baking day.  You know, cleaning the dishes as I go, got the oven preheated just in time, had the right type of cupcake liners.  But I had a voice in the back of my head going, "Keesh you really need to look over that recipe again."  I did.  "Oh, toast the pecans first."  I did. 

The batter is mixing, sometimes I steal a taste off the beater, but I wasn't so inclined.  But it didn't look like enough batter for 24 cupcakes.  So while I'm putting it into the cake pan, a little gets on my finger and it doesn't taste right, but I just think that maybe my taste buds aren't registering everything.

25 minutes later, they look like little, I don't know, crumbly palvarones.  I take a bite and they taste just as bland as the batter did.  I rush over to the cookbook and the first line, how could I miss the first line "2 c. sugar."

So, I've got about 30 minutes to hop in the shower and figure out what to wear, gawd, I hope it isn't going to be one of those days!