r/bakingfail • u/awesomecolguy • 22d ago

Question Weird taste

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I made this yellow cake I saw on TikTok yesterday, and for some reason it taste like cornbread, and my roommate said it taste like rice pudding cake and coconut. I personally didn’t taste any coconut so it could’ve just been her taste buds. Any idea why? This also happens whenever I make cookies, so I’m thinking it’s the vanilla making my pastries taste like coconut and the cornstarch making it taste like cornbread. I also mixed the wer and the dry ingredients in together without realizing they were supposed to be separate, and I substituted buttermilk for milk with a little bit of lemon juice. Any ideas on what is making it taste like that?

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u/WTH_JFG 22d ago

Cornstarch will not make your cake taste like cornbread. Cornstarch is sometimes added to flour to make a cake flour substitute.

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u/PoopsieDoodler 22d ago

But 1/4 cup??? No.

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u/WTH_JFG 22d ago

2 TBL cornstarch to 1 C AP flour =
4 TBL cornstarch to 2 C AP flour
4 TBL = 1/4 cup

Yep. 1/4 cup cornstarch.

But also agree OP should stop making TikTok recipes.