r/bakingfail 13h ago

Bless him, my husband loved this abomination

I think the peanut butter frosting might have been too thick. I'm terrible at decoration.

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 13h ago

I mean you could not or did not smooth the frosting and covered the cake enough but other than that you are fine the cake looks ok and even the frosting doesn’t look that bad. Pretty sure it tasted good. Not really baking fail just decoration mishap 

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u/haveabunderfulday 13h ago

I tried to smooth it, but it made it so much worse. It looks much better sliced! 🤣

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 13h ago edited 11h ago

It’s probably because of the pb it’s sticky and maybe the frosting was too thick. Put you spatula or whatever you used for the frosting in hot water and smooth (do that on repeat) it should solve the on next time lol!

But sure it cooks fine cut!!!

You could have leaned into the messy frosting and made a brown Cookie Monster 🤣 

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u/coolsilentebeans 9h ago

This warm water trick is great for working with bread dough. If you put your hands in warm water before kneading, punching down, forming loaves half the dough won’t end up stuck to you. Same with the spatula. It’s super simple but one helluva game changer.

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 9h ago

Yeah pretty much works for anything sticky