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The recipe called for avocado butter and that's what I used. I am positive now that overheating is my problem. I have the 12 cavity silicon mold. The bars that were in the middle all have the burned bottoms and up the sides so I'm expecting that when I cut in to them they will be overheated...

The recipe just said to put heating pad on med. heat for 30 minutes, so that's what I did. I only had low, med. and high as options on this warming tray. Yes I did have the heat on for 30 minutes while the mold was on it, then I turned it off, but left the mold on it. I think the tray might...

Yes on both counts. I was just about to add the oils and saw you did it! Thank you! Yes I used a silicon mold bought from BB. It's a 12 bar mold and I heated it on a warming tray made for food instead of a cloth heating pad. I'm thinking you might be right... that that might have been...

Oh my! Never heard of false trace but I did check the temps. Because this was my first batch I was a bit clumsy with getting everything measured in a timely way so my PO had started to solidify by the time I was ready to add all the other oils, so I heated it til clear, as well as the CO. I...

I think you were asking if I heated the mold once the batter was in it? Yes, the recipe called for putting it on a heating pad for 30 minutes, then leaving it on but turning the heat off so that's what I did. Instead of a cloth covered heating pad, I did use an old keep warm tray I had that...

Hello! I just joined this forum today and have spent lots of time reading all the wonderful information here... especially the pictures of failures! I was hoping to get the answer to my question there but my first ever batch is a little different. I'm suspecting perhaps lye pockets/heavy...

Thank you so much for posting all these photos! It's very helpful for us beginners! I have a slightly different problem but I see I'm not supposed to post a question here so will try to find another thread to show a photo of my first ever batch and the problem I had with it. Thanks for all...