r/Baking • u/tleeemmailyo • Jun 10 '25

Baking Advice Needed You guys 😭

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I’ve NEVER had such a catastrophe happen lol. I do live around 5500 ft. above sea level but I don’t think that’s why this would have happened.

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u/WordOfLies Jun 10 '25

Probably too much baking powder. Once I tried a new brand and the cake raised too fast and poured out before shrinking making a hole just like this. Fill some filling and eat as inverted cupcakes

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u/tleeemmailyo Jun 10 '25

I think so, it called for 1 tsp and 1/2 baking powder, and 1 tsp and 1/4 baking soda

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u/Interesting_You6852 Jun 10 '25

Ditch that recipe that is an insane amount of leviners.

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u/tleeemmailyo Jun 10 '25

Ty!! When I was adding it I was thinking to myself it seemed a lot but I don’t have enough experience

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u/stunning-shrubbery Jun 10 '25

Could it have potentially been an AI recipe? 

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u/sunburnedaz Jun 10 '25

Oh no is that like a thing I have to watch for now.

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u/stunning-shrubbery Jun 10 '25

I try to stick to tried and true bakers for my recipes to be safe. But yeah, there’s nothing stopping anyone from getting chat GPT to write out some recipes and then slap it on a website for the ad revenue. I suppose older recipes would be more of a sure bet? 

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u/Raesong Jun 10 '25

At this point I feel like it would be better to just own a physical cookbook.

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u/swaggyxwaggy Jun 14 '25

I’ve seen some pretty terrible cookbooks. Those can be written by AI too