How to learn from failure while recipe developing, with 5 easy steps to make the most of things when disaster strikes

Homemade Bagels and What I Learned - Chewy, dense & slightly sweet, these bagels are what's up. If you're new to making bagels, don't miss!

Hunger can kill you...Peeta may have saved Katniss's life with this Raisin Bread in the Hunger Games.

Why I may never make macarons again

Slow cooker chicken nuggets = one big cooking fail. What was your worst flop in the kitchen?

Sometimes, imperfection comes out delicious, like this peach tart!

I'm spilling my worst kitchen disaster - come share yours too!

Salted Chocolate Peanut Brittle. A sugar misadventure with the caramel turning hard candy on me. Help anyone?

How to handle negative foodie feedback, trolls, and failed recipes.

One shiksa's day of failed attempts to create a challah worthy of her inner NYC Jew!

Smitten Kitchen's Everyday Chocolate Cake

"A Chronicle of My Kitchen Failures," including imploding cupcakes and a coconut cake that looks like an escaped convict.

Does it matter how it looks, so long as it's delicious? My hair-tearing week of visual flops.