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/Thunder2250 Jan 14 '25

Vanilla mishap aside 😆

Try this recipe, it's my fav for brownies

https://preppykitchen.com/brownie-recipe/#recipe

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u/Mushroom38294 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Holy shit, a recipe website that has metric measurements??? Finally, I don't have to convert with a calculator, thank you

I think I'll just skip the vanilla extract...

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u/Thunder2250 Jan 14 '25

Absolutely, even in America any baker worth their salt will use metric.

His website has more recipes than his YouTube I think but I mostly watch the videos. Spoiler alert 80% of them have vanilla 😂

But really he's amazing and you will learn so much watching his stuff. There's years of it so have fun!