Creme Brulee

Prepared custard and baked in a water bath:

Added sugar to the top for hard shell:

Baked under broiler for 2 minutes:

Lesson Learned: adjust amounts so custard will set more solidly. Buy blow torch... there's really no substitute for the caramelized top. It did harden under the broiler, but it's just too hard and nerve wracking for me to monitor a perfect top and it doesn't give the same effect.

Bright side: tastes good!

Failure aka Meringue Cookies

I only made these to avoid wasting extra egg whites not utilized by my other two recipes. Absolute failure.

Lesson learned: evaluate many recipes before attempting something new. Try recipes with consistent instructions. Something like a 100 degree increase in oven temperature is probably not a good gamble if it's unique to one recipe (my house still smells like smoke -_-). I'm sure I made other errors in these cookies, but that one was un-recoverable.