
With many of us holed up at home, more of us are trying to find new and creative ways to keep ourselves from going stir crazy, including gardening, craft and of course, cooking.
Not only does cooking and baking make for a great way to entertain yourself when you’ve already binge-watched Tiger King (one too many times) or are waiting around for your next Zoom chat with your friends, but it also means you get some tasty home-made isolation snacks – so it’s really a win-win.
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But sometimes our cooking ventures don’t always go so… well.
Sometimes we proudly take our masterpiece out of the oven only to find we’ve burnt the sides, realised we’ve accidentally left out an all-important ingredient or it looks precisely nothing like the pretty Pinterest picture.Sigh.
But that’s okay because we’ve all been there.
So to help you feel you feel better about your baking blunders (and give you a much-needed laugh) here’s 25 isolation cooking fails that didn’t exactly pan out.
Behold.

"I went to make banana bread and realised I didn’t have a cake tin after making the batter so I used a cheesecake tin. It came out flat." Image: Supplied/Michaela Godinez.

"A burnt mess of a lemon tart. I didn’t get the pastry right at all and I think the cooking and refrigeration timings were wrong.... sticking to savoury stuff from now on." Image: Supplied/Isobel Paine.
help my cookies are not social distancing pic.twitter.com/n8yVSdjSvJ
— Yasmine Salam ???????? (@yasminesalam_) March 26, 2020
Well, just a while back, this happened. #baking #cake #CupcakeHour #bakingfails pic.twitter.com/XMwlN7RcKn
— Keeny ???? (@keeny76) April 15, 2020
#StayAtHome & be productive.
I’m not much of a baker. I can cook alright, but baking...not so much. So, today I tried my hand at some lighthouse cookies, since I’m from Florida.
How do you think they turned out? pic.twitter.com/kKmB07XPmB
— Justice Seeker is sheltering at home ☮️ (@tizzywoman) March 28, 2020
Quarantine baking Take One. Half of the cookies are burnt, half are raw, and the fire alarm is going off.
Lessons for the future. 1) My fire alarm works well 2) My neighbours are alert 3) My baking skills can only improve from here. Good thing I didn’t start with bread. pic.twitter.com/LU73Vp2u6f
— Scott Searle (@scottsearle) March 30, 2020
Tower of shame. #fail #cookies #bakingfails #bake #theindiecafe https://t.co/z8OjhFkvdJ pic.twitter.com/pnijUO05vV
— Sarah@Indie (@the_indie_cafe) April 15, 2020
As failed as my bunnies? pic.twitter.com/I3U0XSGMBe
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) April 12, 2020
So the last two weeks I've had off from work have been..... Enlightening. I am NOT a Baker. I try I try I try. But nope... #NailedIt #NetflixUK #BakingFails #1stworldproblems pic.twitter.com/5SJtEleUb0
— Jo Panda Clark (@jobohobo) April 6, 2020
i've just made, what might possibly be, the world's most failed banana bread. if i had feral goats living in my backyard, i would hesitate to feed it to them.
i will not be taking any questions at this time. thank you for respecting my privacy.
— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) April 12, 2020
#MyShame pic.twitter.com/G6dFBWjlkx
— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) April 12, 2020
Hello. You may win most-failed banana bread, but I am champion of most-failed normal bread. I give you this: pic.twitter.com/X6OLr9DAF8
— Kelly Hevel (@KellyHevel) April 12, 2020
I tried making honey biscuits with the g-free flour I found, but used marge not butter, and added a lot of spices... And I got flat cakes. They taste of spices, not honey. :/ But my partner says he likes them so that's something #bakingfails #baking #bakingbiscuits pic.twitter.com/9IvafL9f5Y
— Victoria Miller (@victmill) March 21, 2020
The texture... It was overbaked, so it's dry, crusty on the outside, but also springy. The taste... virtually indescribable. Bitter. Chalky. Soapy. Why does the dried mint taste soapy? It's red on the inside like some strange steak. No. #bakingfails #baking pic.twitter.com/y0npnUzttH
— Victoria Miller (@victmill) March 21, 2020
Day25 of #WorkingFromHomeLife and I’ve realised my pan is not as non-stick as I thought it was. My new #lockdown resolution is to teach myself how to make a pancake and not have anymore #cookingfails like this..... pic.twitter.com/nayVrnjoBq
— Laura McNally (@mcnal) April 7, 2020
My banana/egg pancakes weren’t great. pic.twitter.com/TgbGjMbT5l
— k a t (@awwkitten)
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