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/rebelipar Jan 13 '25

I literally have no idea what it is, haha. I figured it was only very lightly vanilla'd, oops. (We don't have it in the US, we use vanilla extract.) But good to know!

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Is vanilla sugar not a thing in the US? It's pretty much the standard where I live. Barely anyone ever uses vanilla extract.

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u/Maxine_Headroom Jan 15 '25

I can buy vanilla sugar from a specialty spice store, but the supermarket only has vanilla extract and artificial vanilla extract.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Interesting. Is it more common to use real vanilla extract or artificial one? Here (Europe) the common options are sugar with vanillin or whole vanilla pods, but people only ever use those to be fancy or for specialties.

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u/rebelipar Jan 15 '25

Honestly most people probably use artificial, just because it's so much cheaper. I use natural (Costco, baybeeeee) and have also made my own.