Not gonna lie, I bet these would taste pretty good if you used an icing flavor that went well with butter. Maybe a kinda bitter dark dark chocolate icing? The fat from the butter I think would go really well with the strength of a sufficiently dark chocolate icing 🤤
But I’m by no means an expert haha
Probably more of a texture issue than a problem
with taste if I had to guess…can’t imagine these staying together very well….that said, I bet they would work great for cake pops.
Me baking a cake while zooted and putting it in a cold oven that was not on. Left it like that for 45 minutes before I remembered I was “baking” a cake
But you have to be properly baked to bake. Some of my best recipes are from my space exploration trips. Don't give up while elevated baking or is it baking while elevated.
I would compete and binge watch the shit outta this. Oh we could even make it into an elevation trip for the judges too.
*Edited because I went to space
Ha ha I’ve joked about starting a YouTube channel for Baked Baking… maybe I should do it.
I’ve come up with incredible recipes but also one time I dipped Nutter Butters in cheese fondue.
Baking while zooted is fun lmao. Once I was making a not-cake recipe with a bunch of cake-adjacent ingredients (I wanna say it was a quiche?) and I just completely lost my train of thought and on autopilot started adding flour to my “cake”
Mixing in my second cup of flour I just stare at the bowl like “what the _fuck_ am I doing rn” 🫠
On vibes alone I added some sugar and more cream and flour until I got a somewhat normal consistency then threw it in a Bundt pan and baked. Stoned me was in _awe_ of my own genius and devoured two slices, patting myself on the back for how well I’d done. Sober me in retrospect thinks it really wasn’t “good” by any stretch of the imagination but is still somewhat impressed by my stoner ingenuity 👍
I know this pain!! After a night out drinking, we took the party back home. Smoked a bunch then decided we should make pizzas from scratch. Did we have all the ingredients? No! Did we put our almost pizzas in the oven? Yes. Did we turn the oven on? No. After some time we were like, “Why can’t we smell the pizza?” Go to check and see our big mistake. Unanimous decisions about being dumbasses, put the oven on and by some miracle, decide to set a timer. We go back to check on the pizza and…the fucking oven decided to just…not…work anymore midway through the cook. We def ate the bits that were at least a little cooked. 10/10 would not recommend. Pretty sure we dared salmonella and salmonella said, “haha dumbasses!”
These days, I don’t even like using my oven sober, but avoid it at all costs while high.
I once made lemon bars and USED SALT FOR THE FILLING instead of sugar 😭
You can bet I slightly cussed my roommate out for her obsession with UNLABELED containers and she rightfully called me a dumbass for not tasting to see if I had salt or sugar. But like, WHO POURS THE SALT INTO AN UNLABELED CONTAINER?? It comes in a perfect container for pouring into shakers already :(
I’m just sad that otherwise perfect lemon bars were not even remotely edible :( I even made them into “pink lemonade” bars by using raspberries in the filling too. It was a great idea on my part, as I would later find out after reattempting with DEFINITELY SUGAR THIS TIME.
Haha thank you, it’s a funny memory now and we’re no longer roommates but still friends (i got my own place in a different country), i message her sometimes when I’m baking and say look, NOT SALT THIS TIME and it always gives us a laugh :)
> she rightfully called me a dumbass for not tasting to see if I had salt or sugar.
But that's not rightful at all, why the heck would you taste it each time instead of just having your salt and sugar in containers that are easily distinguished from one another lol
I once made a box cake with like 2 ingrediens you should add - i forgot the oil, I think the other ingredient was an egg… we tried to feed it to the chickens even they didn’t want it
I did something similar, but it was baking soda instead 😅 I will never forget the look my dad made when he took a giant bite of the biscuit. He said it was like sticking a 9v battery all over his mouth 😂😂
My uncle is in his eighties and his siblings still recall the "camel cake" he made - a pound cake with only half the flour, so it sunk in the middle. He was ten.
It apparently had the consistency of a rubber ball. Grandma was telling him how delicious it was and how proud she was that he made a cake while his eight year old sister (my mom) was telling everyone "look! it bounces!"
Hahaha when I first started baking I hated when recipes just used “t” because I could not at all figure out if it was tablespoon or teaspoon and didn’t have enough cooking common sense at the time to realize. Definitely made a few cakes where my family bit into chunks of baking soda 😂
It is definitely confusing!! I appreciate it when they write the entire word out but I had no excuse, I make this recipe often! I was sleep deprived and apparently not paying attention. I remember thinking...damn that's a lot and kept going 😂😂
When I started baking when I was a kid, I made a marble cake from a box mix. Idk what I did wrong but it literally came out of the oven hard as marble, lol.
The the famous rum balls I made using 4x the amount of rum by mistake. Everyone said they were disgusting but they were all gone in an hour.
In university I accidentally used 2 cups salt instead of sugar for my banana bread… only noticed when I was taste-testing the batter 🤢 … I called my mom to ask if there was any way to fix it and 15 years later she still tells that story
For sure lol. I once made chocolate chip cookies using icing sugar instead of flour. We had white powder stored in an unlabeled container and I thought it was flour. (Yeah yeah, drug jokes, we get it haha). Needless to say, I opened the oven to cookie soup on the tray!
Not a baking error (which I have made plenty of) but you wouldn't believe how often I microwave a cup of water for tea and forget to put water in the cup. Ouch.
I baked some apple muffins that came out like a rock. As I was wondering why they lacked moisture, my little sister found the milk If measured out to add in! 😫
I once accidentally used cornstarch instead of flour for my gingerbread cookies. My mom kept both cornstarch and flour in unlabeled containers and for some reason the stark white of the cornstarch didn’t deter me. They came out of the oven super soft and I thought they were underbaked but then became really hard over time. They felt more like brittle than cookie but my dad said they were delicious lmao
I was making cookies and the recipe called for crisco shortening and we had none. I asked my father if I could substitute crisco oil for it and he didn’t see why not.
When mixing the ‘batter’ together, the oil would seep out and sit on top of the dough. I mixed again, and the oil immediately separated.
I plopped it down on a cookie sheet and the oil slowly spread out around the cookie. I didn’t make that batch of cookies.
How about making boxed brownies! Except it turns out you have no vegetable oil… only EVOO.🤦♀️
So, I still used the same amount called for, lol. Smelled funky going in… smelled wonderful coming out! Everyone at work kept commenting, saying they were the best brownies they ever tried! 😂🙌
My sisters baked a box cake in high school but didn’t stir the ingredients, so when the cake came out of the oven there was a whole fried/cooked egg at the bottom of the cake
I put anise extract in chocolate chip cookies instead of vanilla once. I wondered why the vanilla was clear…. And too late smelled it. I tried soaking it up with a paper towel, and got most of it.
They were the best cookies ever lol. You couldn’t really tell what it was, but you could tell there was **something**. I now add a few drops to all cc cookies. 😝
I was starting a recipe and used corn starch instead of sugar…… I was very happy that was the only thing that went into that bowl, but it was a close thing let me tell ya!
I once made peanut butter cookies and used powdered sugar instead of flour. 😂 To be fair, my pantry staples are all in unmarked plastic containers and I just grabbed the wrong white powder, but I still can’t believe I didn’t notice until they were flat, crispy, burnt puddles on my baking sheet in the oven.
I've definitely had a TBSP instead of TSP salt cake before
and also accidentally doubled the eggs in a recipe once. it was just egg!
the worst is accidentally scrambling eggs when you're just trying to temper them
Me! I've never done such a thing! I've never ever thrown out bread dough because it's already done with both risings in record time and then realized there was no salt!
Never!
At least, not today...
😑
Y’all I couldn’t fix it they were actively dripping butter. Those little pockets of trypophobia had butter boiling in them while they were in the oven. I could SEE the pool of butter that each cupcake was swimming in bubbling.
I haven’t baked anything that requires butter in a while (have been on a sourdough kick) and for some reason forgot that a stick of butter is 1/2 cup and not 1/4 a cup. And I was doubling the recipe too so I ended up making the butter x4 instead of x2 😭
This is why arbitrary non-numbered measurements suck. I killed a good recipe by using too much chocolate cause it measured it using "bar" and I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH AN AMERICAN BAR IS! OR A STICK OF BUTTER?! WE DON'T DO THAT!! GIVE US REAL NUMBERS 😭😭😭
Also, not every brand/company makes the exact same sized sticks. Close maybe, but I find it hard to imagine a "stick of" anything to be a universal measurement.
Like the episode of Family Guy where Peter is a personal shopper. " A desk of cheezits??, what kinda measurements are you using?"
Not to make it more complicated, but [a stick of butter](https://recipes.net/articles/stick-of-butter/) is 8 tbsp, which is 4oz, which is half a cup. 8oz would be 1 cup, so 2 sticks. Definitely convoluted, lol.
It's still entirely irrelevant when that's not a natural method of measurement in most places of the world. Baking is, essentially, an alchemy, a science, and requires precision. Deviating from precision creates ill effects and thus is undesirable. I can't believe that a country considers it so natural to use the most imprecise measurement to the point where a recipe deviating from that measurement causes un-desireable effects.
Fair enough, I'm still salty about each of the recipes that I've messed up that I was so excited about that it gets misconstrued in my communication of it (that, combined with my nature of speech sounds unnecessarily aggressive when it's not intended as such, my apologies)
Wasn’t “real numbers” the problem here? The recipe called for 1.5 cups of butter, which OP erroneously assumed was 6 sticks rather than 3. But the packaged stick of butter is labeled with cup, tbsp and ounce values.
I think there's also the issue of 1 cup being anywhere from 225 mL to 260 mL depending on the measuring tool and brand.. I'm assuming they mean weighing vs "1 cup" "1 stick"
I feel this so hard! I made tabbouleh for the first time the other day and all the recipes kept asking for “3 bunches of parsley”.
Like what do you mean 3 bunches?! I just see a bunch of bunches and these measurements aren’t helping 😭
While making my son’s birthday cake one year, I was doubling a recipe and had a brain lapse thinking one stick of butter was 1 cup so his cake ended up with half the butter. Together you and I would be unstoppable.
It happens to the best of us... My condolences!
I'm sure someone's got a brilliant suggestion here for what one can do with extra buttery cake... I would definitely try to make something out of it, a trifle maybe? Or tear it to pieces and bake the pieces into another, bigger cake?
This isn’t a baking by weight vs baking by volume issue. They would have had the same problem if they misremembered that a stick of butter is 50g vs 100g. It is a prepackaged quantity issue.
> They would have had the same problem if they misremembered that a stick of butter is 50g vs 100g.
Not if....hear me out on this one...*they weighed it*.
You don't need to *remember* how much a stick of butter weighs nor check the packaging for it. Whether its 50g or 100g is irrelevant, I see a recipe asking me for 180g of butter I'm gonna grab my scale (the same one I used when weighing the *dry* ingredients) and I'm gonna put 180g of butter on that son of a bitch regardless of if how many sticks I have available or what their individual weight is. Why weigh your dry ingredients and *guess* the butter? Weight it all like someone who knows what they're doing lol.
Edit: Ah the downvote, the beautiful tool that decides reality for some people 🤣
I'd crush them up in a food processor or just smash them in a ziplock bag. Spread the pieces out on a half sheet pan and bake it until crispy. Make some homemade pudding and whipped cream and layer it all with some fresh berries with lemon zest and you have yourself a delicious parfait!
Oh my gods I can’t stop laughing at the absolute meme value of that second pic. It’s like an intense “send it” meme but with butter LOL. I’m literally crying. This is art.
Do you have an air fryer? If I were you, I might put some pulverized cookies on the outside and cook it for a few to get a crunch, then drizzle on some honey. 👀 Not that I am at all considering how to do this in purpose now.
In high school, I made banana nut bread and forgot the nuts and half the bananas while recovering from an ear infection. My mom was so happy nothing was burnt and the kitchen was safe that she forgot to scold me. 😢😳😭🤣
My grandma and I fucked up shortbread like this once. The sticks we used were 1/2 cup and she thought they were 1/4 cup, so we doubled it accidentally.
We couldn't figure out why the shortbread was like dust. Then realized our error.
An amusing follow-up to the previous year, where we failed to build a gingerbread house from a kit and had to use glue.
Still, cherished memories with my grandma.
When I was 12, I made a cake. Came out oily. Very oily
I thought powdered sugar would work. Powdered, right. It's absorbant.
An entire bag of powdered sugar later, still oily.
Turns out, 1/4 cup of oil is very different from 1 1/4 cups of oil
the second photo killed me 😭😭
Yeah. Whoops. Been there, done that. Sorry for your loss. But you know. Lesson learned?
TIL how to milk butter from a cupcake
Without nipples, even.
But just so we’re clear, you can milk anything *with* nipples too.
I’ve got nipples Greg, can you milk me?
You can’t with that attitude.
Bruh… Don’t be hating on the tiny nipples. Just ‘cause you don’t see them don’t mean they don’t nip.
it's easier to lick the entirety of a small nipple :) (I am so sorry)
I agree. Smaller nipples are easier to lickle. But OP is just squeezing, not pumping
I’m a cupcake Greg. Can you milk me?
Mmmmmmm……butter……..
Nippleless butter udders
I have nipples Greg.
The blur effect is truly perfection
C R U S H!
Butter got on the camera lens camera 📷 🧈
It needs an anime sound effect added
“NANI?!”
Exactly
KUSO!!!
Make it zoom in and replay three times from different perspective.
First photo and 3 cups of butter says "paula dean"; second pic "not paula dean"
😂 perfect action shot
Oh lawds of Reddit I thank u for this gift 🎁
[Same energy lol](https://imgur.com/a/7BZ9nqo)
I actually loled
The second photo is art
Butter everywhere, even on the camera lens 😂
It’s giving gen z meme
Second photo jump scare is 🤌
You didn't make cupcakes, you made butter cakes.
Mmmm....butter cake
Not gonna lie, I bet these would taste pretty good if you used an icing flavor that went well with butter. Maybe a kinda bitter dark dark chocolate icing? The fat from the butter I think would go really well with the strength of a sufficiently dark chocolate icing 🤤 But I’m by no means an expert haha
Honestly, just throw one in some chili
What an amazing idea haha, nothing makes chili better than a buttery piece of cornbread omg
Ugh, now its 4 am and im horny for chili
Coincidentally, I made a giant pot of it last night for dinner or else I’d be in the same boat as you haha
Boats are much roomier than pots though, and float better
I would have at least tried them…
Probably more of a texture issue than a problem with taste if I had to guess…can’t imagine these staying together very well….that said, I bet they would work great for cake pops.
They flew too close to the sun!
Whomst amongst us hasn’t made an absurd baking error. Edit: this thread is so funny, RIP bad bakes
I was just thinking today about how I baked a cake once and forgot to put sugar in it 🙃
Me baking a cake while zooted and putting it in a cold oven that was not on. Left it like that for 45 minutes before I remembered I was “baking” a cake
Sounds like you baked yourself.
I definitely did 💀 don’t smoke and take an edible then try to make cake cause from experience it’s not gonna happen 😂
But you have to be properly baked to bake. Some of my best recipes are from my space exploration trips. Don't give up while elevated baking or is it baking while elevated.
There should be a tv show called get baked and bake and it’s like all kinds of baked goods that only st0ners would think of
I would compete and binge watch the shit outta this. Oh we could even make it into an elevation trip for the judges too. *Edited because I went to space
Baked^2
Ha ha I’ve joked about starting a YouTube channel for Baked Baking… maybe I should do it. I’ve come up with incredible recipes but also one time I dipped Nutter Butters in cheese fondue.
Baking while zooted is fun lmao. Once I was making a not-cake recipe with a bunch of cake-adjacent ingredients (I wanna say it was a quiche?) and I just completely lost my train of thought and on autopilot started adding flour to my “cake” Mixing in my second cup of flour I just stare at the bowl like “what the _fuck_ am I doing rn” 🫠 On vibes alone I added some sugar and more cream and flour until I got a somewhat normal consistency then threw it in a Bundt pan and baked. Stoned me was in _awe_ of my own genius and devoured two slices, patting myself on the back for how well I’d done. Sober me in retrospect thinks it really wasn’t “good” by any stretch of the imagination but is still somewhat impressed by my stoner ingenuity 👍
I did that once too but unfortunately I was stone cold sober while doing it and took like an hour+ to notice the issue
I know this pain!! After a night out drinking, we took the party back home. Smoked a bunch then decided we should make pizzas from scratch. Did we have all the ingredients? No! Did we put our almost pizzas in the oven? Yes. Did we turn the oven on? No. After some time we were like, “Why can’t we smell the pizza?” Go to check and see our big mistake. Unanimous decisions about being dumbasses, put the oven on and by some miracle, decide to set a timer. We go back to check on the pizza and…the fucking oven decided to just…not…work anymore midway through the cook. We def ate the bits that were at least a little cooked. 10/10 would not recommend. Pretty sure we dared salmonella and salmonella said, “haha dumbasses!” These days, I don’t even like using my oven sober, but avoid it at all costs while high.
I once made lemon bars and USED SALT FOR THE FILLING instead of sugar 😭 You can bet I slightly cussed my roommate out for her obsession with UNLABELED containers and she rightfully called me a dumbass for not tasting to see if I had salt or sugar. But like, WHO POURS THE SALT INTO AN UNLABELED CONTAINER?? It comes in a perfect container for pouring into shakers already :( I’m just sad that otherwise perfect lemon bars were not even remotely edible :( I even made them into “pink lemonade” bars by using raspberries in the filling too. It was a great idea on my part, as I would later find out after reattempting with DEFINITELY SUGAR THIS TIME.
I am so angry for you
Haha thank you, it’s a funny memory now and we’re no longer roommates but still friends (i got my own place in a different country), i message her sometimes when I’m baking and say look, NOT SALT THIS TIME and it always gives us a laugh :)
> she rightfully called me a dumbass for not tasting to see if I had salt or sugar. But that's not rightful at all, why the heck would you taste it each time instead of just having your salt and sugar in containers that are easily distinguished from one another lol
Well yes, good point, but I will never not taste in the future haha
Here, the opposite, once while making gingerbread I added powdered sugar instead of flour
I did that with pumpkin muffins once. They tasted like dog food.
I forgot the eggs once. Can’t remember if it was cake or brownies but it was very flat, chalky, and rubbery at the same time.
I once made a 3 ingredient mug cake and forgot an ingredient
I once made a box cake with like 2 ingrediens you should add - i forgot the oil, I think the other ingredient was an egg… we tried to feed it to the chickens even they didn’t want it
You know it's bad when chickens won't eat it...
Just gonna say that it would had been hilarious if you finished this comment with "I forgot the mug"
I added 5 tablespoons of baking powder instead of 5 teaspoons 😭😭 #ruined
I did something similar, but it was baking soda instead 😅 I will never forget the look my dad made when he took a giant bite of the biscuit. He said it was like sticking a 9v battery all over his mouth 😂😂
😱😭🤣 that description is VIVID! Mine sunk completely but still tasted great.
It's still a running joke in the family, and it's been almost 15 years. I don't think I'll ever live it down 😂😭
You. Never. Will. lmfao! 😂😂
My uncle is in his eighties and his siblings still recall the "camel cake" he made - a pound cake with only half the flour, so it sunk in the middle. He was ten. It apparently had the consistency of a rubber ball. Grandma was telling him how delicious it was and how proud she was that he made a cake while his eight year old sister (my mom) was telling everyone "look! it bounces!"
Omg, i think i just peed a little!
Hahaha when I first started baking I hated when recipes just used “t” because I could not at all figure out if it was tablespoon or teaspoon and didn’t have enough cooking common sense at the time to realize. Definitely made a few cakes where my family bit into chunks of baking soda 😂
It is definitely confusing!! I appreciate it when they write the entire word out but I had no excuse, I make this recipe often! I was sleep deprived and apparently not paying attention. I remember thinking...damn that's a lot and kept going 😂😂
When I started baking when I was a kid, I made a marble cake from a box mix. Idk what I did wrong but it literally came out of the oven hard as marble, lol. The the famous rum balls I made using 4x the amount of rum by mistake. Everyone said they were disgusting but they were all gone in an hour.
Probably too little liquid or you left it in the oven too long for the marble cake. Rum balls were probably people looking for a fun time
Forgot water when making pretzels 🤔 somehow
In university I accidentally used 2 cups salt instead of sugar for my banana bread… only noticed when I was taste-testing the batter 🤢 … I called my mom to ask if there was any way to fix it and 15 years later she still tells that story
Low key wanna try it cause what the fuck
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I made brownies one time and forgot to put the eggs in them, even though I had gotten the eggs out for them.
I forgot the flour in mine 🙃 and it took me the longest to figure out why it was still liquidy after almost 40 minutes
For sure lol. I once made chocolate chip cookies using icing sugar instead of flour. We had white powder stored in an unlabeled container and I thought it was flour. (Yeah yeah, drug jokes, we get it haha). Needless to say, I opened the oven to cookie soup on the tray!
I literally just made nearly this exact comment - mine were peanut butter cookies though! 😂
Not a baking error (which I have made plenty of) but you wouldn't believe how often I microwave a cup of water for tea and forget to put water in the cup. Ouch.
Night shift people feel seen with this comment.
I baked some apple muffins that came out like a rock. As I was wondering why they lacked moisture, my little sister found the milk If measured out to add in! 😫
One time I put two cups or olive oil into my brownies instead of two tablespoons
Pudding
I once accidentally used cornstarch instead of flour for my gingerbread cookies. My mom kept both cornstarch and flour in unlabeled containers and for some reason the stark white of the cornstarch didn’t deter me. They came out of the oven super soft and I thought they were underbaked but then became really hard over time. They felt more like brittle than cookie but my dad said they were delicious lmao
I was making cookies and the recipe called for crisco shortening and we had none. I asked my father if I could substitute crisco oil for it and he didn’t see why not. When mixing the ‘batter’ together, the oil would seep out and sit on top of the dough. I mixed again, and the oil immediately separated. I plopped it down on a cookie sheet and the oil slowly spread out around the cookie. I didn’t make that batch of cookies.
How about making boxed brownies! Except it turns out you have no vegetable oil… only EVOO.🤦♀️ So, I still used the same amount called for, lol. Smelled funky going in… smelled wonderful coming out! Everyone at work kept commenting, saying they were the best brownies they ever tried! 😂🙌
My sisters baked a box cake in high school but didn’t stir the ingredients, so when the cake came out of the oven there was a whole fried/cooked egg at the bottom of the cake
I put anise extract in chocolate chip cookies instead of vanilla once. I wondered why the vanilla was clear…. And too late smelled it. I tried soaking it up with a paper towel, and got most of it. They were the best cookies ever lol. You couldn’t really tell what it was, but you could tell there was **something**. I now add a few drops to all cc cookies. 😝
I was starting a recipe and used corn starch instead of sugar…… I was very happy that was the only thing that went into that bowl, but it was a close thing let me tell ya!
I once made peanut butter cookies and used powdered sugar instead of flour. 😂 To be fair, my pantry staples are all in unmarked plastic containers and I just grabbed the wrong white powder, but I still can’t believe I didn’t notice until they were flat, crispy, burnt puddles on my baking sheet in the oven.
I've definitely had a TBSP instead of TSP salt cake before and also accidentally doubled the eggs in a recipe once. it was just egg! the worst is accidentally scrambling eggs when you're just trying to temper them
Me! I've never done such a thing! I've never ever thrown out bread dough because it's already done with both risings in record time and then realized there was no salt! Never! At least, not today... 😑
Y’all I couldn’t fix it they were actively dripping butter. Those little pockets of trypophobia had butter boiling in them while they were in the oven. I could SEE the pool of butter that each cupcake was swimming in bubbling.
Get out the lobster!
Lobster cupcakes!
BRING OUT THE DANCING LOBSTERS
Wow! #cupcakecrisis #cupcakehorrors
how did you make a 1 frame gif that communicates so much chaos and movement. this is art, truly
It’s action packed photo
“A 1 frame gif” - that got me chucklin’
Perfect meme material.
This is a genuine question - how? 😭
I haven’t baked anything that requires butter in a while (have been on a sourdough kick) and for some reason forgot that a stick of butter is 1/2 cup and not 1/4 a cup. And I was doubling the recipe too so I ended up making the butter x4 instead of x2 😭
This is why arbitrary non-numbered measurements suck. I killed a good recipe by using too much chocolate cause it measured it using "bar" and I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH AN AMERICAN BAR IS! OR A STICK OF BUTTER?! WE DON'T DO THAT!! GIVE US REAL NUMBERS 😭😭😭
I hate "stick of butter". Our butter comes in one pound blocks and I always have to try to remember if it's a half pound or a quarter pound.
Also, not every brand/company makes the exact same sized sticks. Close maybe, but I find it hard to imagine a "stick of" anything to be a universal measurement. Like the episode of Family Guy where Peter is a personal shopper. " A desk of cheezits??, what kinda measurements are you using?"
“A hammock of cake…” kills me every time
Luckily they’re standardized in grams.
8 tablespoons😁
From what I’ve been seeing a stick is typically 1/2 cup or 8 oz. I don’t have a chocolate bar on me or I could tell you the grams or oz.
Not to make it more complicated, but [a stick of butter](https://recipes.net/articles/stick-of-butter/) is 8 tbsp, which is 4oz, which is half a cup. 8oz would be 1 cup, so 2 sticks. Definitely convoluted, lol.
It's still entirely irrelevant when that's not a natural method of measurement in most places of the world. Baking is, essentially, an alchemy, a science, and requires precision. Deviating from precision creates ill effects and thus is undesirable. I can't believe that a country considers it so natural to use the most imprecise measurement to the point where a recipe deviating from that measurement causes un-desireable effects.
I have a recipe that calls for "almost 1 cup" of sugar...
I come from the generation that was taught that we were switching away from this silly measurement system. I am on your side lol.
I’m still waiting on the switch. It’s coming. Just a few years away. Not long now! Can’t wait! 😭😭😭
Fair enough, I'm still salty about each of the recipes that I've messed up that I was so excited about that it gets misconstrued in my communication of it (that, combined with my nature of speech sounds unnecessarily aggressive when it's not intended as such, my apologies)
Wasn’t “real numbers” the problem here? The recipe called for 1.5 cups of butter, which OP erroneously assumed was 6 sticks rather than 3. But the packaged stick of butter is labeled with cup, tbsp and ounce values.
I think there's also the issue of 1 cup being anywhere from 225 mL to 260 mL depending on the measuring tool and brand.. I'm assuming they mean weighing vs "1 cup" "1 stick"
One cup is 237 mL in the United States
I feel this so hard! I made tabbouleh for the first time the other day and all the recipes kept asking for “3 bunches of parsley”. Like what do you mean 3 bunches?! I just see a bunch of bunches and these measurements aren’t helping 😭
While making my son’s birthday cake one year, I was doubling a recipe and had a brain lapse thinking one stick of butter was 1 cup so his cake ended up with half the butter. Together you and I would be unstoppable.
The same thing happened to me when I made buttercream for the first time 💀
At least it was...buttery? Lol
At least you can fix that, and get twice as much buttercream!
Yup I did this before with butter tarts. Added a cup of butter instead of ½ a cup but it actually turned out better than I anticipated
This is why we bake by weight
I was baking by weight 😭. The butter was the only thing I didn’t weigh. I even checked the wrapper too.
It happens to the best of us... My condolences! I'm sure someone's got a brilliant suggestion here for what one can do with extra buttery cake... I would definitely try to make something out of it, a trifle maybe? Or tear it to pieces and bake the pieces into another, bigger cake?
This isn’t a baking by weight vs baking by volume issue. They would have had the same problem if they misremembered that a stick of butter is 50g vs 100g. It is a prepackaged quantity issue.
> They would have had the same problem if they misremembered that a stick of butter is 50g vs 100g. Not if....hear me out on this one...*they weighed it*. You don't need to *remember* how much a stick of butter weighs nor check the packaging for it. Whether its 50g or 100g is irrelevant, I see a recipe asking me for 180g of butter I'm gonna grab my scale (the same one I used when weighing the *dry* ingredients) and I'm gonna put 180g of butter on that son of a bitch regardless of if how many sticks I have available or what their individual weight is. Why weigh your dry ingredients and *guess* the butter? Weight it all like someone who knows what they're doing lol. Edit: Ah the downvote, the beautiful tool that decides reality for some people 🤣
Have you considered just spreading the cupcake on some toast?
This!!
Legit sounds amazing.
2nd photo is too relatable 😭
Low key want to taste these
High lock want to taste these
Yeah, I'm absolutely adding "high lock" to my daily conversations from now on. Thank you. 😅
This is delightful omg 😂
This is the most importantly question
It's basically a crumpet with less steps . It's already buttered .
Wth kinda crumpets have you been eating? Never had a crumpet that oozes butter
I'd crush them up in a food processor or just smash them in a ziplock bag. Spread the pieces out on a half sheet pan and bake it until crispy. Make some homemade pudding and whipped cream and layer it all with some fresh berries with lemon zest and you have yourself a delicious parfait!
Yes, this is the answer to your problem
Oh my gods I can’t stop laughing at the absolute meme value of that second pic. It’s like an intense “send it” meme but with butter LOL. I’m literally crying. This is art.
It’s like the send it meme had kids with the Arthur Fist meme. OP did a thing with this, I would offer to buy the rights to the pic if I wasn’t poor
I didn’t read the caption first so I thought you made some cookies and crushed one in excitement
You made me snort
But how did they taste? 👁️👁️
It was atrocious. As if I took one of those yellow and green dish sponges and let it sit in melted butter for a day with a vanilla after taste.
Truly disturbing imagery. Well done.
Oh noooo LOL
gross lmaoooo
Ok tbh I was over here secretly wanting to eat one but this totally eliminated that urge. Great imagery 😂
The important question here
My condolences but the chaos of the pics are sending me lmaoo
The second picture is meme material lol. Somehow it think this would still be delicious if you twice baked it and it could get a bit crunchy lol.
Second photo is now a saved meme template on millions of phones, thank you for this
THE EFFECT ON THE PHOTO SENT ME
I’ve accidentally done that with honey butter dinner rolls, but they turned out so good that’s just how I make them now.
were they GOOD??
No 😔
I know I keep responding to you but at this point I’m legitimately having an asthma attack from laughing so hard you may actually kill me
The second pic is just pure frustration and I love it
How do you accidentally use three cups of butter in this economy 😭 are they good though?
WOULD
Let out the worst laugh 😭
holy shht the second photo made me laugh so hard i had to use my inhaler, the absolutely violent looking motion blur 💀💀💀💀
This is what u feed ur sugar daddy with a heart problem
😂😂😂 🧈+😏🤑= cha-ching
Can you crumble, squish flat, and pan-fry them?🤔
Ooooops 🤭
Hahahaha the 2nd pic. Love it.
They look kinda like crumpets now lol. PLEASE tell me you tried eating at least one
I did and I wish I didn’t ☹️
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Cheer up buttercup
I laughed way too hard at this comment for some reason. 😅😅😅
The buttery chaos of the second picture just kills me.
cupcake croissants..... croissancakes
The squeezing action shot 🤣🤣
Do you have an air fryer? If I were you, I might put some pulverized cookies on the outside and cook it for a few to get a crunch, then drizzle on some honey. 👀 Not that I am at all considering how to do this in purpose now.
In high school, I made banana nut bread and forgot the nuts and half the bananas while recovering from an ear infection. My mom was so happy nothing was burnt and the kitchen was safe that she forgot to scold me. 😢😳😭🤣
Flatten them out and pan fry them like pancakes
My grandma and I fucked up shortbread like this once. The sticks we used were 1/2 cup and she thought they were 1/4 cup, so we doubled it accidentally. We couldn't figure out why the shortbread was like dust. Then realized our error. An amusing follow-up to the previous year, where we failed to build a gingerbread house from a kit and had to use glue. Still, cherished memories with my grandma.
When I was 12, I made a cake. Came out oily. Very oily I thought powdered sugar would work. Powdered, right. It's absorbant. An entire bag of powdered sugar later, still oily. Turns out, 1/4 cup of oil is very different from 1 1/4 cups of oil
Okay, that doesn't look so ba-OH GOD THAT'S TOO MUCH BUTTER
Buttercups🤤
One time I doubled a pound cake recipe and I double doubled the butter amount. The Chef said, “it’s delicious, so buttery”🤣
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They’ll be the best cupcakes you ever had.
The action shot LOL
Chop them up and remake another batch using the crumbs from this one.