The disaster I remember was from many years ago - the year I was seven, and just beginning to bake on my own. My mother had gone out and left my friend and I to make fudge. Reading the recipe was fine, until we got to 'cocoa'. Not realizing there was a difference, we used hot chocolate mix (cocoa to us) instead of the baking cocoa. We had to chip the resulting 'fudge' out of the pan with a hammer and chisel from my dad's workshop. Solid chunks of oversweet whatever it was, tasted wonderful to us, but you had to be careful not to break a tooth!

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