Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt: Ruin(ed)

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Theme: Ruin(ed)| Become a Photo Hunter

I didn’t have to think too long about what kind of ruins I could find for this photo hunt. 🙂 These have appeared on my blog before.

Failure

This was supposed to be for a ladies’ meeting at church — but fell apart when I tried to get it out of the pan. It is some kind of spice cake — I’ve never made it before or since. I did scrape out the rest of the cake and made the glaze for it and poured it on, and we ate it! It tasted great! But I did have to come up with something else for the meeting — I don’t remember what now.

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These are from several years ago — they were supposed to look like little muppets. I had seen the idea in a magazine. I think the idea was to bake cupcakes, put one upside down on top of another one (and probably glue it with frosting), cut out a little wedge for the mouth, then put little dollops of white with a mini chocolate chip in the middle for eyes. It looked so cute and easy in the magazine. How could it go wrong? Somehow it did, and they ended up looking like swamp monster babies left out in the rain. Unfortunately this was for Jeremy’s second birthday, and though he didn’t care, we had invited friends over. There was no back-up plan, so I served this spectacle. They were very kind about it.

Cake-baking and decorating are not my specialties, as you can tell.

You can find more ruins at TN Chick‘s, the creator and hostess of Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt.

29 thoughts on “Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt: Ruin(ed)”

  1. I’m sorry but I laughed out loud. What a great story. It is always when you want things to be special that they are ruined. Have a great weekend and thanks for dropping by.

  3. I am dying laughing here, Barbara, at the swamp monster baby thingies! How hilarious! I’m not a cake/cupcake decorator either…by a looooong shot!

  4. Swamp monster babies 😀

    Well, at least you tried, I may never be able to come up with those,Barbara. Never mind if it looked disappointing if it tasted great, then its ok.

    Have a great weekend!

  5. When life gives you lemons you make swamp monster babies that is awesome and they don’t care as log as they get to eat them and know you did d a nice thing:)

  8. The cupcakes look like cookie monster to me. I tried to make some cute deviled eggs a few years ago for easter that looked like they had baby chicks inside. It was the same thing. I’m not so crafty. They tasted yummy, though. 🙂 *LOL*

    Happy Hunting! My Ruined

  9. I can’t ever make desserts look the way they are supposed to but that doesn’t ruin the taste fortunately. Good take on the theme.

    My deck wall and the two nesting boxes that were ruined can be fixed but it’s a matter of when. I should do the wall before the spring nesting starts so as not to disrupt the new homes. Since I have other nesting boxes the two that were ruined are low on my priority list.

  14. Don’t you just HATE it when that happens? My cakes usually come out okay — but I do really elaborate frosting jobs sometimes, and every now and then I get a tube of icing that is more melty than others — this seems to be especially true of red — and I’ll get the cake all decorated and cover it and then when I take the cover off to cut the cake — or maybe put the candles in for BIRTHDAY – or something IMPORTANT like that – and the red parts will be running off the cake! That jusssst drives me nuts! I don’t think I have any pictures of it though… LOL!

  15. Oh… these college girls are MOST especially thrilled to have “a whole house” to spread out in — rather than just ONE dorm room! THAT is the main thing Krysti complains about! And I’m hearing it from Jules as well! 🙂

  17. Ah! You should send the second one over to a site called Cake Wrecks! It’s really funny. I’m sure they tasted just fine. We’ve had a lot of those at my house too! Last year I purchased a silicon bunt pan. It took some getting used to, but I’ve had perfect bundts every time since! Have a great weekened!

  19. I’ve not seen these photos tho….and sorry, but I can’t help but laugh. Only ’cause I’ve had photos like these in my life too….so many, MANY times. Great idea for this week’s theme.

    Thanks for stopping by today. Hope your weekend is off to a great start.

  24. You made me smile about the swamp monster part. I initially thought they were miniature cookie monsters. 🙂 I admire the love and effort you put into those little muppets. I think they are all cute and I bet they tasted yummy.

  26. Ohmygosh…LOVE the swamp monster baby cupcakes! I thought they looked fun! And I’m with you, cannot back to save my life. It’s a sad thing really. LOL. But hey, that’s what Bakeries are for. : D

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  28. These make me laugh! Great take on the theme. Been there, done that (but I didn’t take photos). Thanks for visiting mine and have a great week.

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