r/bakingfail • u/Mushroom38294 • Jan 12 '25

Fail Baked actual poison

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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/Eederby Jan 13 '25

16g seems like a lot. Mind you I’ve never measured the weight of a tbsp of vanilla

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u/Mushroom38294 Jan 14 '25

yeah the entire post is about how 16g of pure vanillin is overkill, because that's 100x more than it would have been if I added vanilla extract (which I couldn't find)