2014 Baking Challenge Update

Well, I am officially a terrible food blogger. I've actually already accomplished several of the dishes I intended to try in my personal 2014 baking challenge... and I haven't blogged about (or photographed) any of them. In summary:

 Chocolate Chess Pie



Tried this. Terribly disappointed. Have another recipe I plan to try. I probably didn't document it because it was hideous. And just okay. I did cut the recipe to a smaller size, which may have effected it. Either way, it wasn't pretty enough to document.

2. German Dark Rye Bread



Another failure. Didn't turn out at all. With that said, I had bought all this rye flour and was determined to be successful. I did find a recipe I liked, in the end. It wasn't amazing, dried out quicker than I would have liked (that could be the desert air), but it was pretty tasty. The successful recipe was from An Edible Mosaic.

6.  Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Skillet Cookie



This wasn't beautiful. I didn't have the same sized skillet, so I used two smaller ones and they spilled over a bit (I had them on a pan, so no harm to the oven!). I can't remember why I didn't take pictures, except maybe that I was too busy eating. Because this was sooooo repeatable. It was scrumptious. It was terrible--I didn't want to stop eating. Yummy. Extra good with ice cream.

So, really, I'm 3/7 on my challenge already! Go me! Now I just need to be better about the pictures!

Failure - Crock Pot Cheesecake

I'm an avid fan of Pinterest, and I found this recipe while browsing one day:

From Source, Crock Pot Ladies

It looks delicious, right? Creamy, fluffy, white, beautiful...

So even though it wasn't on my list of recipes for the Challenge, it was easy and I decided to whip it together one night. Here is mine, in the crock pot:

Eeek! Already doesn't look so good, right? It's so... yellow. And lumpy looking.

Well, I persevered. And then the next day, after it had cooked and cooled, I tried it. Again, I say, Eeek! Actually, it wasn't that it was so horrible tasting. In fact, it tasted okay. But it was still AWFUL! The texture... oh, the texture. It was, I repeat, AWFUL. I tried to eat it but I just kept seeing the calories I was forcing on myself. It was grainy and rough. It was terrible.

Now, I'm not saying this recipe sucks, because it sure LOOKS good. But it didn't work for me and I won't be trying it again. Ever.