Culinary Failure?

Those who know my mom and grandma know they are fantastic cooks/bakers/grill artists etc.  There's something about the way the prepare items that turns your mouth into a food parade.  Tastebuds start dancing and suddenly a meal becomes more than a meal.  Now, with that said, one would think that creating a meal based off their recipes-using the same ingredients-prepared the same way-would taste the same.  Yes? No?  Well, I missed out on this culinary gene.  Missed out in a big way.  These extraordinary women make the most delicious cookies, can I repeat this culinary genius?  Nope.  It's always an epic failure, and I do mean epic.  Cheesecake, I can cook.  And we (grandma, mom and I) make a mean cheesecake.  I've only had one that was better, and I do honestly mean that.  But when it comes to creating something useful on a daily basis i.e. bread?  Another failure.  Not so much an epic one this time, as it is edible, but it just does not taste like my moms.  It didn't even look like my moms!  The recipe is simple, there's only 6 ingredients.  Yet, I managed to mess it up.  I'm not looking for sympathy by any means.  It's just amazing to me how we all can have the same recipe, yet I have never been able to duplicate their product.  Anyone else have this problem?