The Netflix baking competition “Nailed It” teaches us how to find joy in failure - Quartz

The Netflix baking competition “Nailed It” teaches us how to find joy in failure  QuartzFailure is quite literally baked into the premise of the Netflix series Nailed It. The reality baking competition, which recently debuted its third season, asks contestants to replicate ridiculously extravagant confections—a bust of Napoleon Bonaparte created out of puff pastries, say, or a cake decorated to look like a ski slope, complete with fondant penguins whizzing down whirls of snow-white frosting. I couldn’t make that. You probably couldn’t make that. And the contestants, who tend to be the kind of amateur bakers prone to burning chocolate-chip cookies in the oven back at home, are ...