Flying saucers! or.. flying.. prep bowls.. fail

After a long day of some not so fun activities and getting sun burned I decided that I was going to make a streusel coffee cake with coconut. If you're lucky enough to be local, it's my version of the terribly addictive cake that they serve at the Dodo. I really didn't want to bake (..my desire for a tasty treat won) but I made my way through it and turned out 2 lovely bundt cakes. One for my work and a smaller one for Mike and I.

If you've had the cake at the Dodo you know that you have to get it with ice cream because it comes warm with caramel sauce and the ice cream is just the perfect companion. I was in the middle of making caramel sauce and reached for a prep bowl to fill with water to wash down the sugar crystals and wouldn't you know it.. it started raining prep bowls. I can testify that pyrex does in fact break and makes a very loud sound and a very large mess. As if cleaning a kitchen full of glass shards wasn't bad enough, the cakes were surrounded by broken glass so they had to be thrown away. I think today is just one of those days to sit in front of the tv until it's time to go to bed as an insurance policy against anything else going wrong.