Back in 6th class when you were considering your options for secondary school, the idea of whipping up cupcakes as part of your school day seemed an absolute dream, right?

Sure, you were only mad into cupcakes, and if making them helped you acquire points in the Leaving Cert, then who were you to turn down the chance?

Then you began Home Ec classes and got the rudest awakening of your life.

Yes, you made cakes every now and then, but you were also forced to memorise the components of a fridge, commit various biological functions to memory, and watch your friend's glasses steam up every time she went anywhere near the oven.

And here are just six things you know if Home Ec was the bane of your life.

1. You ALWAYS forgot to pre-heat the oven

No matter how fresh your ingredients or clean your workspace, something would always go wrong during your Home Ec practicals.

And invariably it came down to your inability to remember the oven needed to be turned on in order to actually go home with anything edible. 

"Oh my God, I did TURN it on. I'm SURE I did."

2. You never had the right containers

The night before a cookery class, you would trawl through your mother's impressive collection of Tupperware in order to find a container which would facilitate your finished product the following day.

And invariably, the container would be too small and you'd be forced to bung your cupcakes into a dirty cotton bag and bail before your teacher caught sight of you.

"Jaysus, just fling them in there and bounce."

3. You struggled with various smells

Cutting onions first thing in the morning, and then spending the rest of the day with the smell lingering on your hands was an absolute melter.

Even when you forced your partner to take the reins with the onion, the smell would still find its way onto your hands, and ruin your day.

"That smell isn't coming from me. Stop looking at me."

4. Your hair couldn't take the pressure

A school kitchen with 20 students slaving over hot stoves wreaked havoc on your barnet.

You may have arrived to school with poker-straight hair, but you could guarantee a steamy kitchen meant you'd be leaving with a 'do that resembled nothing like it did an hour earlier.

"I look like Monica when the humidity got to her."

5. Your finished product NEVER looked like the picture

You might have used all the right ingredients, but the item you gingerly removed from the oven rarely looked like the photo in your textbook.

And even if it tasted good, your presentation generally left a lot to be desired, right?

"What's a piping bag? And can I use this plastic bag instead?"

6. You were forever 'wasting' food apparently

While you assumed you were simply peeling fruit and veg, your teacher would insist you were leaving half the good stuff in the kitchen bin.

And you weren't beneath arranging the contents of your bin so as to conceal the amount of potato you had actually discarded either.

"What? Those peels aren't mine! They were there when the class started!"

Thankfully, the good folk at Siúcra have helped us to draw a line under our hellish experience of homebaking with the help of new brand ambassador Catherine Fulvio.

Reminding the public that home cooking doesn't have to dredge up memories of Home Ec classes, they said: "Food has an incredible ability to bring people together, so whether it’s a sharing plate or a mini dessert, Siúcra has the perfect recipes for both seasoned cooks and young enthusiasts to savour mini moments."

"With Catherine's infectious enthusiasm for food and no-fuss approach to cooking and baking, she was a natural choice for our brand," they added.

"I’m really excited about working with the range to develop easy-to-make recipes which will hopefully inspire people to experiment in the kitchen and enjoy the sense of achievement from creating something delicious for friends and family," Catherine enthused.

These guys might just rewrite history for us!