Learning from my Mistaken Pancakes

I wrote the other day that I had used baking soda instead of baking powder while I was making pancakes on Sunday[image error] morning. When I went to fry them up, I couldn't figure out why they burned so easily and the batter didn't spread far. It was the first time I remember doing that and it was only after eating one that I realized what I had done wrong: the flavor was a little too salty.

While I am a little on the perfectionist side (people who know me are laughing but I'd like to remind them that I do not iron tablecloths! Come to my house for dinner and you will be eating on a tablecloth filled with creases!), many things do go right. I made tiramsu a few months ago for the second time and it came out great. I also made a pineapple upsidedown cake not long before that and it came out pretty darn good. But that same weekend of the pineapple upsidedown cake, I learned that my idea for making ice cream cake didn't go as well as I would have liked. I made the ice cream and cake by scratch and thought that if I froze the middle layer of ice cream and then topped it and spread the rest of the ice cream on top, it would be perfect.