Still Making Mistakes in the Kitchen

You would think after 40 years of experience in reading recipes I would have it down pat by now. Well I tried to attribute my mistake to being tired or poor eye site, but the truth is I just read the recipe wrong. The story is, I had bought fresh blueberries at the grocery store...only because they were on sale! Sunday morning I decided to make blueberry pancakes for breakfast. I almost always make a big breakfast on Sunday morning even if it is only for me and my husband. I looked up a recipe for blueberry pancakes on the Internet which is sometimes easier then trying to find one in all my cook books. I followed the recipe as indicated not rationalizing the amount of sugar until it was to late. I had inadvertently changed the amount of sugar from 1 1/4 tablespoons to 1 1/4 cups of sugar. Thinking to myself that it seemed like a lot of sugar I still went ahead and added it to the batter. I even went into my home office and told my husband it seemed like a large amount of sugar for pancakes. Still not going back to check the recipe. I let the batter sit for awhile so that the bubbles could form to guarantee a light and fluffy pancake. Still not checking the recipe I poured the batter onto the griddle thinking it hadn't thickened like pancake batter usually does. The batter proceeded to spread on the griddle to cover the whole top. Wow this doesn't look right! I finally reread the recipe to find my error. I could not believe my mistake. There was no way I was going to flip that batter to cook the other side but I tried. To say the least they did not look like the pancakes I had anticipated for breakfast.

Now what should I do? I didn't want to waste all those fresh blueberries or even the ingredients I used to make this mess. This old cook came up with not a bad option. I poured the whole mess into a 13 by 9 inch cake pan. Popped it into a 350 degree oven....how long I don't remember but until the toothpick test came out clean. Once it was cooled I decided not to frost it since it was evidently sweet enough with all that sugar. So I served it just as it was. Mind you all the blueberries had fallen to the bottom so cutting it into serving pieces was impossible.

To say the least it did not go to waste, all of it got eaten with no complaints. I think every kid in the house asked what it was so I made up a cute name to go with my mistake. BLUEBERRY BOO BOO. (blueberry buckle)

I don't think I will repeat this recipe but it does show that when it comes to baking you have to follow the recipe as written or you will invent your own BOO BOO.