committing baker fails across the board

i had two epic baking fails last night.

1. I destroyed a zucchini bread.
2. I bought a boxed cake mix and canned frosting with every intention of using it.  

alright, before you stop following my blog, hear me out.

I was on the phone with my sista on the Left Coast while I was making my bread and forgot to add baking soda and the cinnamon. That's what happened. It never rose and it turned out to be more like a pound cake, a tasteless one in fact. I'm not perfect here, peeps. I've been baking from scratch since I was 12 years old, so these things happen. sometimes, I forget to add an ingredient or I get ambitious and sub one for another and it turns out to be terrible. But I'd be lying if I said that I was ok with this. When I have a baking fail, I usually become engraged, throw it in the garbage and cry on the couch for awhile. 

so the lesson learned for kristen: don't try to bake during a crisis or while on the phone with a sibling. and don't take out the failed baked good on your husband. It's not his fault. He doesn't even like sweets.

as for the cake mix, I'll be straight up here: I have had a monster hankering for yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Not from scratch, either. It has to be from the box and so I bought this:

and this:

so i could have this:

i really can't say why i am having this craving. and as a baking blogger and lover of all things sweet, I should probably be pretending to have sophisticated dessert taste and making some fancy organic pudding from scratch or something, but I don't do this. I'm a simple little lady and, sometimes, I just want a cake mix cake and duncan hines frosting. is that so terrible? ... i think not.

so the story is...i'm going to make my cake. I'll try my zucchini bread another time. and all will be right with the world once again.