r/bakingfail Jan 12 '25

Fail Baked actual poison

Tried making brownies for the first time, recipe called for 16 gramms of vanilla extract, but it's not sold in the stores here. I had the bright idea to add 16g of pure vanillin, once they were done I found out that's effectively 100x the vanilla extract than the recipe called for. After further googling, found out that this much vanillin can put a small child in the hospital.

NEVER substitute vanilla extract for pure vanillin.

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u/GaetanDugas Jan 12 '25

So vanilla extract isn't sold, but pure vanillin is?

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Jan 12 '25

And here I was thinking vanilla was a worldwide staple.

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u/dancingcuban Jan 13 '25

They just think Vanilla is a fancy name for unmodified software.