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Sarah and I tried to make cupcaks from scratch today.  We decided to try a good eats recipe for buttercream frosting.  (transcript)  It starts by making caramel.  Which we burned. (see photo at left).  Take two, the caramel came out alright.  Step two beat eggs in stand mixer then drizzle the caramel into the eggs.  Which seemed to work alright.  But I whipped the eggs too much, and the foam broke (see photo below).  We needed more eggs to try again, so we head out to buy more.  Fortunatly we thought ahead and bought shortening to make our tried and true vegan mock buttercream;  because the real one broke again.  Now they're naked on the counter and its too late to decorate them.