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Mood Spoiler: Sweet and Wholesome

TIFU by showing my mom my next baking project January 23, 2025 (recovered with unddit)

The other day I had a dream about a particular type of muffin I used to sometimes get from my school’s café years ago as an after-school snack. It was a chocolate muffin with cream cheese in the middle, and it was downright magical. I decided to find a recipe so I could try making them.

For context, I live with my parents, and I bake frequently as a sort of therapy. It’s not unusual for me to show my mom a recipe or ask either parent if they’ve been craving anything. Nothing I make goes stale or moldy.

So, I showed her the recipe I had settled on, and she got all misty-eyed, which was NOT the anticipated reaction. I expected “ooh, those look fun!” or something in that vein. I did NOT expect the quiet “my mother used to make those when I was little.”

Her mother passed several years ago, and the only family she really has left aside from husband and kids is one of her younger sisters (the youngest passed a few years after my grandmother) so she holds memories of them very close. We’re a close-knit family, so I’ve made it my mission to get these muffins done TONIGHT so she can have one before leaving town for the weekend tomorrow afternoon. I’ll try to be more prepared for tears then.

TL;DR: accidentally made my mom cry over a muffin recipe

Relevant Comments:

FragilousSpectunkery:

Assuming they were happy tears, not a fuck up. Sounds like a great moment, tbh. It’d be great if you shared that recipe too…

OOP:

I’m gonna go with happy tears, I mainly say I fucked up bc I don’t typically know how to comfort people when they’re crying. Conveniently, the solution here is rather obvious.

Here’s the recipe I plan to use:

Drearydreamy:

If this recipe doesn’t taste right, r/old_recipes has black bottom muffin recipe in this post

OOP:

Oooooh, unless the recipe I tried ends up miraculously tasting like her childhood I will DEFINITELY try those next!

ThePublikon:

that’s not a fuckup, you triggered a wholesome cherished memory to live on for another day.

“They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the second, a bit later on, when somebody mentions your name for the last time.” - Banksy

TIFUpdate–showing my mom my baking plans January 24, 2025

Several people asked for an update on the nostalgia muffins, and so you shall receive! Many also said it didn’t qualify as a FU, which is fair, but I’m letting the update win out on this one.

In case you missed it: yesterday I shared with my mom I was planning to make a new kind of muffin/cupcake, and unexpectedly made her cry. Apparently her late mother used to make them, whereas I’d just had them a few times in middle school before having a dream about them more recently. I’ll refer to them as cupcakes this time as the texture is less bread-like and more cakey.

Now, onto today. By the time I pulled them out of the oven, it was past midnight and she’d already gone to bed. No matter, I stored them so she could try one today. I came downstairs at almost noon and found her with a half eaten cupcake, crying again. She said they’re not spot-on, but pretty damn close. We’ll be making these together on a regular basis now.

TL;DR: accidentally made my mom cry, now two days in a row, over cupcakes. This spawned a new tradition, and yes, the cupcakes are as magical as we both remember.

Relevant Comments

I_R_Teh_Taco:

Yep, this is a good update. Here’s hoping you two get all the joy you desire from these treats

MmeHomebody:

You rock. You simply rock. Thank you for making the world a better place!

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