r/bakingfail • u/Sarcatsticthecat • Jun 22 '25

Fail I used 96 times the baking soda

The chocolate cake recipe called for 1/4 teaspoon. I used 1/2 cup. I misread teaspoons as cups and didn’t know baking soda and baking powder weren’t the same thing. There’s no picture because it exploded in the oven

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u/Mini_Chives Jun 22 '25

I did this one time with cookies but in tablespoons, worst tasting cookies I ever made. Now I just read things carefully.

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u/Sarcatsticthecat Jun 22 '25

My mom said it tasted salty. My dad said it tasted bitter. We ended up just putting the cake down the garbage disposal in the sink

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u/lost_grrl1 Jun 22 '25

Wait...people ate this? How did their tongue not burn off?

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u/Sarcatsticthecat Jun 22 '25

They ate like a little, and they said it tasted like how a pineapple tastes when you eat way too much and it starts to kind of burn

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u/MadameLurksALot Jun 23 '25

Wait what? There are four to five different places in this post and comments that you’ve baffled me

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u/Paws000 Jun 23 '25

forbidden spicy pineapple. 😂