Our Crazy Cook for April is Carolyn from Orlando, Florida.

Here’s her story:

At the end of the school year (I was a first grade teacher) I used to hold a special brunch for all of those who helped me throughout the school year in my classroom. I planned these very special menus and cooked for a couple days ahead of time to get it all done. One year I decided to get really organized and pre-measured all of the ingredients prior to cooking and put them in separate little dishes to mix together as needed. I was making these wonderful blonde brownies with a chocolate and raspberry sauce that is served with them. After everything was completed and I was ready to serve the brownies, I went to cut the perfect looking brownies into squares. Imagine my surprise to find that they were like soup under the top crust. I scrambled to figure out what I had done wrong. I pulled out the recipe, and sitting right behind the book, was the bowl of flour that was intended to be put in the mix. We all had a great laugh and luckily, I had some nice big strawberries in the fridge to wash up and serve with the chocolate and raspberry sauce.