“First you bloat, and then you drop pounds like that… It explains it all on the label.”
-- Cady
Julia Child was popular less for her culinary excellence and more for her tendency to fail. Omelets were lost mid flip, fingers were burnt, and as - Dan Aykroyd has pointed out - small cuts were sustained. I’m grandiose enough to fancy myself a future pioneer in culinary education, so I will now compare myself to Julia Child. This post is dedicated to recipes that fail spectacularly. There. I’ve spun this. I’m not admitting to making a hot mess; I have intentionally ruined this dessert as part of a “teachable moment.”
Sponge candy is delicious. As Wikipedia points out, it goes by many names, but the premise is simple and directly related to 3rd grade science class. Make a dark, toasty sugar syrup (that always goes well) and then add vinegar and baking soda. The mixture foams like crazy and then hardens, trapping millions of crunchy bubbles into a honeycomb.
This is the recipe I used. I cannot recommend it. Sure that opening photo looks okay, but photos can be very flattering taken out of context (i.e., eHarmony profile photos). Let’s take a journey…
