It’s the week leading up to Christmas and your cooks are on the road! In honor of the birth of Santa Jesus, we are devoting the entire week to sweets! Which means … baking! Which means … messes!
Everything we know about baking stresses this is a form of cooking that is more science than art. There is not a lot of room for improvisation. Sure you can replace pecans here with walnuts there, but for the most part, you have got to adhere religiously to the recipe at hand.
What follows is the story of how wrong things can go when you do not adhere to this, the first rule of baking.
This story is based on actual events.
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