Oh dear! that could’ve ended badly with an unscheduled dentist visit. Probably good you found it first before everyone else tucked in and someone lost a tooth. Sounds tasty, but also needed a warning label! You’ll know for next time or before gifting the prune cake to someone else. A story for future Christmases for sure!

Oh dear! that could’ve ended badly with an unscheduled dentist visit. Probably good you found it first before everyone else tucked in and someone lost a tooth. Sounds tasty, but also needed a warning label! You’ll know for next time or before gifting the prune cake to someone else. A story for future Christmases for sure!

Oh no! There’s nothing worse. That could’ve been dangerous, a broken tooth or chocking. Not good. Prune cake sounds lovely though, very different. I haven’t had a Christmas dinner fail but I did have a homemade garlic bread fail though. My husband will never let me forget the day I made homemade garlic bread using butter and garlic salt, yes, garlic salt! That was 15 years ago. He’s never let me live it down since.

I’ve also learnt that the hard way with pitless prunes and always bite into them slowly lol. I haven’t had any failures at Christmas but certainly many other times over the years. I usually do a trial recipe first if it’s for visitors. Xmas is always easy as we have favourites, tried and true, that we stick to.

No christmas fails this year but a few years ago I had taken the time to make my usual pavlova. Removed it from the oven the following morning (christmas day) and covered it in tin foil. I then decided to put it on top of the microwave so it was safe from being crushed. When I uncovered it to dress it with cream and fruits it was covered in ants 🙁

Oh no, what a pity especially since it was such a tasty cake. Personally I wouldn’t chuck it but mash the cake with a fork and scoop out the pit; it may look a bit different 🙂 but the taste wouldn’t be any different. We had a simple dinner with my family in the Netherlands and each family brought in their plate/plates, most of it to be presented cold. And it was yum !

Oh no, that’s such an unfortunate mishap! I hate putting in so much effort cooking entirely from scratch for it to flop. I didn’t have a Christmas dinner fail, but I’ve definitely cooked a meal that I’ve had high hopes for only for my husband to ask for cereal after finishing it.

Ouch! Watch out teeth! I hosted Christmas breakfast this year and I had some ‘helpers’ in the kitchen. I asked my daughter to cook pancakes as it seems to be a bit of an obsession with her at the moment. I do not know what she did to them, but they were flat and rubbery. Hubby also well and truly overcooked the bacon on the BBQ- don’t know how he managed that one!

Oh I am so sorry to hear your dessert didn’t turn out and that the dates had pips still. I didn’t go all out this year and kept it simple but the previous year, I made some lobster and i over cooked it too much that it just wasn’t enjoyable at all.

I like the response from BellaB about keeping Christmas catering for people easy. We have also made a pivot to less fuss and less cooking for Christmas. We do a lot of prep before Christmas Day and it really does make the day flow easily and makes it stress free too.

No – but our christmas meal is just a buffet of cold meats, cheeses, bread rolls and so on. Everyone assembles their own food, and it’s frankly hard to go too far wrong with foods that need no cooking and which are more or less single ingredient. I definitely go for simple.

There was no fail because we did a lot of research and planning before the day and before preparing and cooking the meal. We made a change to our Christmas menu and it did take more time to buy and to prepare the food and we did factor this in to the day.

Oh no! Not so much a fail, but we left it too late to get our berries for the pav and all our local supermarkets were sold out, so we opted for cherries as they were pretty much all that was left, with no cherry pitter this cost us so much time and was so frustrating