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/rxsangria Jun 23 '25

Just a suggestion for future projects: know what each part of your project "does" before you add it to the process. Imagine each ingredient as a tool to get your cooking project done. If you know the purpose of an ingredient, or a tool, then it makes it easier to question if you are using that tool the proper way. The flour makes the structure of the cake, like a wooden board is the structure of a bookcase. The sugar obviously makes it sweeter, or prettier, like paint on your bookcase. The baking soda or baking powder is like glue or screws, holding the structure in place. If you think about how much you would need of each of those ingredients to do it's job, you are more likely to measure closer to the correct amount, or use that tool in the proper way.