Baking: A Stress Reliever or Stress Inducer?

Things have been stressful at the Bklyn Bakes abode lately. I'm not going to go into details, but it's been rough.

I had an order to fulfill amidst our problems, though, and I was hoping it would take my mind off of things. Well...that's now how it worked.

I baked the cakes -- chocolate -- and in my naivete decided to try a new icing -- a meringue icing from Martha Stewart.

Thank God I made the icing the night before (which was, I will say, delicious), because it fell apart the next morning. As in separated into pure liquid and grainy solids.

So, amidst all our other problems, I had to throw out 6 eggs worth of icing (eggs are expensive, you know) and start from scratch.

I was lucky that I had tons of butter and powdered sugar on hand, because I just whipped up my grandmother's fluffy vanilla frosting and decorated the cake in a flash.

I'm still working on my decorating, but I think this is a big improvement. And I'm proud that I pulled it off while in the midst of turmoil.

I'm still working on letting baking be my therapy. But too often, I mess up and make silly mistakes when I'm stressed out. Well, as they say, practice makes perfect.