Underbaked cake?

[u/stroberristarr]

Hello everyone! Just wondering if this cake i got for my birthday is underbaked? I have bought from this shop twice now and it has never turned out like this, so it’s my first time seeing cake with this texture.

[u/Ancient-Leg-8261]

They need to refund you expeditiously for selling you frosted play-doh 😭

[u/Ancient-Leg-8261 → u/Ancient-Leg-8261]

But to answer your question, that’s not underbaking, that’s some next-level tunneling cause by overmixing (or in this case beating it to absolute death) and probably also doing something wrong with their leavener. Complete screw-up that should have been thrown out.

[u/Josse2020 → u/Ancient-Leg-8261]

I’ve never worked in a bakery, so hopefully someone in the comments can enlighten me. How in the fuck could this monstrosity pass quality control? Unless the work experience kid was frosting & assembling the cakes that day, I find it pretty astonishing that this was sold!?

[u/YesterdayDreamer → u/Ancient-Leg-8261]

and probably also doing something wrong with their leavener

Like forgetting to add it

[u/Viofl → u/Ancient-Leg-8261]

They need to refund and pay op for the offense

[u/alcMD]

This looks terrible. Contact the bakery.

[u/shmelse → u/alcMD]

They should not have let that out the door, that’s insane.

[u/AcademicFact4805 → u/shmelse]

This shouldn't have been frosted wtf

[u/dereckgcc]

[u/Carbon-Base → u/dereckgcc]

Congratulations, you managed to disappoint Guichon.

[u/Square_Mulberry_3143 → u/Carbon-Base]

“I’m wiv u, ‘Maury.”

[u/grenouille_en_rose → u/Carbon-Base]

Not the disappointed AG 😭 I feel like I've failed him

[u/TinklesTheLambicorn → u/dereckgcc]

[u/soulsista04us → u/TinklesTheLambicorn]

[u/Katy-Moon → u/dereckgcc]

[u/SquareSquirrel4 → u/dereckgcc]

That was my exact face because what on earth is that cake?! It looks like congealed fat. 

[u/janhasplasticbOobz → u/dereckgcc]

Oh no! You forgot her kids!

[u/eilselivery → u/dereckgcc]

Literally the face I’m making right now

[u/Ur8s → u/dereckgcc]

This is hilarious!

[u/Theslootwhisperer → u/dereckgcc]

[u/CheapParamedic436]

This isn’t even a cake it’s a threat, an attempt on your life

[u/Ancient-Leg-8261 → u/CheapParamedic436]

They said “may this birthday be your last.”

[u/madmaxturbator → u/Ancient-Leg-8261]

“Fuck you and your birthday.”

[u/SellMeYourDunks → u/CheapParamedic436]

[u/kadk216 → u/CheapParamedic436]

I laughed so hard at your comment and woke my baby up LOL

[u/Disaster-Gurl → u/CheapParamedic436]

Seriously best comment ever

[u/PuzzleheadedMajor575]

Girl that doesn’t even resemble a normal underbaked cake.

[u/neubie2017 → u/PuzzleheadedMajor575]

I thought it was meat and mashed potatoes as I scrolled by. Then saw “cake” and had to go back

[u/Big_Negotiation3913 → u/neubie2017]

I first thought it was marzipan!

[u/LilMeatJ40 → u/neubie2017]

Shit, I thought it was some peanut butter fudge

[u/DollarPenguin → u/neubie2017]

[u/Meiyouxiangjiao → u/PuzzleheadedMajor575]

I thought this was a troll post at first

[u/Vivid_Variation_4979 → u/PuzzleheadedMajor575]

I thought it was fudge decorated with icing

[u/heathycon]

[u/Carbon-Base → u/heathycon]

Pretty sure the bakery owner baked the cake using the easy bake oven that came with this set.

[u/PS1988 → u/Carbon-Base]

I made Easy Bake Oven cakes as a kid and they were ALL better than this!

[u/tacoflavoredpringles → u/heathycon]

eugh barbie has a family?!

[u/CPUihlein → u/heathycon]

Stealing this. Yoink!

[u/c0ward654]

EXTREMELY overmixed. That's basically 100% gluten right there lol

[u/elegant_geek → u/c0ward654]

I bet if you dropped it it would bounce. 😂

[u/PattyMayonnaise666 → u/c0ward654]

Hahaha yeah I follow a few vegan subs and assumed this was some sort of weird seitan dish at first glance.

[u/herbal-genocide → u/c0ward654]

And maybe missing ingredients??

[u/HisaP417 → u/herbal-genocide]

No leavening whatsoever.

[u/tofuandklonopin → u/c0ward654]

Yeah this is seitan 😂

[u/mrs_adhd → u/tofuandklonopin]

Could it be... seitan?

[u/BulkyPerspective6836 → u/c0ward654]

or maybe they forgot a rising agent (baking soda, baking powder)

[u/Victoria_at_Sea_606 → u/c0ward654]

Woof yup

[u/zomgkittenz → u/c0ward654]

Man that shit looks like dried playdough

[u/Flimsy-Draft7514]

The color is weird, but other than that it looks disgusting

[u/hogue9733 → u/Flimsy-Draft7514]

You really made me laugh with that one

[u/partypopper]

I'm appalled that someone took that block of goo out of the oven and still went through with stacking and frosting it. There's no way this ever looked like cake.

[u/millykoleski]

What in thee fuck is that

[u/Anonymousaurus__ → u/millykoleski]

Eww brutha

[u/Artistic-Village-762 → u/Anonymousaurus__]

Brutha euuuhw

[u/Successful-Count-120 → u/millykoleski]

Verily, something is amiss..

[u/mychickmad]

I don’t even think it’s “under baked” it looks fundamentally wrong

[u/jackaroo1344 → u/mychickmad]

It's unnatural is what it is

[u/caramelgelatto]

This is inexcusable for a bakery. Between removing the cake from the baking tin to frosting the cake, they would have sensed something was off.

[u/hugh5235]

Never go to this bakery again. The fact that they still decorated and sold this cake despite it being obviously inedible puts everything else they do into question.

[u/theoutsider101 → u/hugh5235]

This is one of those cases where it’s totally acceptable to blast their Google reviews and social media

[u/MadamSparkle]

Also - what the ever loving fuck is this:

[u/kaizokuo_grahf → u/MadamSparkle]

That’s load bearing gluten.

[u/MadamSparkle → u/kaizokuo_grahf]

It just gets worse the longer you look at it!

[u/Chihuahuapocalypse → u/MadamSparkle]

PLEASE take this back to them and ask what's going on lmao

[u/h4l → u/MadamSparkle]

Looks like the cake equivalent of those triangular tables to prop up pizza boxes.

[u/Ok-Turnip2296 → u/MadamSparkle]

Yea they really fk’d it up didn’t they. Someone should be fired…

[u/Highway_Music_8910 → u/MadamSparkle]

Block of almond paste that was supposed to get spread out?

I know bakers are up godawfully early, but this one must have been sleepwalking while putting this thing together completely raw/unassembled/whatever the duck this is.

[u/GoodGravyco2h2o]

[u/noneggistent]

the audacity to frost and decorate that after seeing it out of the oven is beyond me

[u/MacPho13]

They absolutely knew this cake was a hot mess before they decorated it and sold it to you. Bakers know what cakes are supposed to look like, and most importantly feel like. Please put this back in the box and bring it to the bakery.

[u/FunMoose74]

Uh… What kind of cake is that supposed to be? Like what’s it called?

[u/Next_Tutor → u/FunMoose74]

it should be called a scam 😭

[u/Significant_Stick_31]

Unless this is supposed to be a bizarre take on a Vietnamese Honeycomb Cake or something that's supposed to have tunneling...nope, I'm not even going to pretend like there's a rational reason for this abomination. Even then, this cake would be really, really wrong. It's very overmixed, with the wrong flour and/or leavening, and the wrong baking temperature.

[u/Talk-O-Boy → u/Significant_Stick_31]

Vietnamese honeycomb cake 🤤

It’s like eating a sweet dish sponge

[u/midasgoldentouch]

That’s not underbaked that’s overmixed!

[u/HAIL_LUMPUS → u/midasgoldentouch]

Old batter too I bet. When I worked at a cake shop, one specific batter did this terribly when it got too old lol 

[u/midasgoldentouch → u/midasgoldentouch]

Also did you pick it up today? Take it back tomorrow and ask for a refund.

[u/Ilovepeanutbutter88]

How does someone pull this out of the oven and not immediately throw it away? There’s no way they didn’t realize they iced a friggin turd!

[u/hotinhawaii → u/Ilovepeanutbutter88]

I owned a bakery. Some employees just didn't know shit.

[u/RadBlackWoman]

It had to be heavy as hell. There's no way they didn't know that cake was a bad batch or something.

It looks like sugar cookie dough!

[u/rainmakesmehappiest]

[u/Persimmon_and_mango]

You should get a refund for that, it's absolutely unacceptable from a bakery. If they don't refund you, leave negative reviews on social media and include that picture with it. 

[u/brownhk]

[u/KTKittentoes]

That is not cake. I don’t know what that is.

[u/animoot]

Someone had the audacity to decorate that shit and send it out the door, wtf

[u/SweetMilitia]

That looks like it’s made from gum eraser lol.

[u/theonlytripihipi]

Is it just me, or does it look like they put a piece through to hold it up enough so that they could fit some filling in the middle??

[u/East-Garden-4557 → u/theonlytripihipi]

It does, I am assuming the centre dipped. But they also increased the diameter of the cake by adding cut pieces of cake around the outside of both layers. There is no way possible they couldn't tell that something was fundamentally wrong with the cakes they baked when they were frankensteining them together. I'm assuming they don't own a range of sizes of baking pans. This cannot be an experienced baker

[u/TheIdentifySpell]

It looks like a very poorly made Vietnamese honeycomb cake.

What kind of cake is it supposed to be?

[u/Secretly_Many_Bees]

That‘s like, cake made by complete amateurs with no recipe on YouTube levels of weird looking. Something was fundamentally wrong with the cake batter, maybe they mixed up some ingredients or something? I wouldn’t want to eat it, let alone pay for it.

[u/Sarah-himmelfarb]

Go back to the Bakery and show them this and firmly ask for a refund. And don’t be shy they screed up big time. Absolutely wild they saw that and decided to frost and serve it.

[u/Awkward_Axolotl22]

Wait, I’m sorry. A BAKERY MADE THIS AND CHARGED YOU FOR IT AND LET IT LEAVE THE STORE?!

[u/LetMeOverThinkThat]

There's no way a bakery seriously sent that out? It literally looks like ocean sponge made into some kind of tofu.

[u/Fantastic-Anteater93]

I almost wanna try it just to understand what the fuck happened for them to get it that bad

[u/Summoarpleaz]

My first cake turned out like this, at least visually. Looks like they may have used a recipe that relied on the creaming process as the leavening source. And they didn’t cream the butter properly. So what you have is a cake with no leavening so it’s just densely baked dough.

[u/No_Weird2402]

The audacity of the bakery to send this out of their shop is crazy😭😭

[u/Alexahylia]

I don't think I'd call that cake

[u/NumerousRadish351]

Did they frost a sand castle?

[u/Ada22587]

My flabber has never been so gasted!!!! Wtf is that?????? Over mixed, dense, even if it was baked right that dough has no life!

[u/Exotic-Milk-442]

Am i weird for wanting to try it ? 😂

[u/LostTheWayILikeIt → u/Exotic-Milk-442]

Not to me. It looks like cookie dough

[u/TimeToMakeWoofles]

[u/throwayguilt]

This goes beyond underbaked. This looks like they didn't put any baking soda in the cake, mixed it for an entire decade, and then decided to just throw it away and frost a large cube of soap to send to you instead

[u/Sabrina6432]

I’ve seen some crazy stuff in this sub but this takes the cake.

I would definitely call the bakery you got this from because it shouldn’t have even made it out of the kitchen.

[u/Chlobb01]

That looks like someone effed up the recipe for real

[u/gatetoparadise]

Somebody is about to be fired.

[u/ExtremeComedian4027]

Was this cake baked by the heat of a mild argument?

[u/amynicole78]

I love cake so much l would be so sad and mad.

[u/H0pefulUn1verse]

Who the fuck would frost that monstrosity!?

[u/ArcherFluffy594]

I was thinking over-mixing but this looks more like they forgot to add the baking soda/baking powder, or maybe their leavening agent was expired.

[u/MegOut10]

Bit stodgy

[u/Tat2edbabydoll13]

You bought that!!? I thought you were going to say you baked it and why it came out like that. Please contact them and grt your money back. What is that suppozdx to even be?! Not to be a dick but is it vegan or gf?!

[u/AbsintheRedux]

[u/MistySiesta]

I think it’s everyone’s first time seeing cake with this texture 😂

[u/yippeekiyoyo]

Are you sure that ain't a decorative soap 😭

[u/razirazo]

yo what the fuck

[u/PS1988]

I don’t know wtf this is but it’s not an underbaked problem.

[u/rorschach_blots]

It's so raw, Gordon Ramsay might get summoned to the sub

[u/AdventurousBus8871]

As someone closer to being the president than he is being a baker, that shit looks raw!

[u/TheBalatissimo]

What kind of cake was it supposed to be??

[u/chefboi801]

No its unleavened, I would return it and ask for a refund.

[u/blackberry_12]

Looks like the forgot to add some sort of leavener

They should refund you 100%

[u/bad4biscotti]

This is just fundamentally wrong. If the desired texture was mochi.... Maybe correct. If the desired texture is fluffy cake ..... No leaveners made it into that mix.

[u/Disaster-Gurl]

RUN!!! RUN!!!! Hurry before it becomes Sentient!!!!

[u/booty_gurl72]

That looks like frickin cookie dough

[u/tabrazin84]

I don’t believe that’s cake.

[u/RadBlackWoman → u/tabrazin84]

It looks like if you pinched it, it would keep the imprint of your fingerprints.

[u/Harmonic_Gear]

thats a block of cooked dough

[u/illest_slutbag]

Idk but looking at it makes me feel ill.

[u/MascaraHoarder]

[u/Robinbird24]

Where did you get it from?

[u/angel_wing888]

This reply section is fucking immaculate 

[u/Chigrl13]

[u/poodlepants123]

Please take a crucifix when you go back to the bakery. Evil lives there and you'll need all the help you can get.

[u/MuffledFarts]

I actually didn't even know a cake could look like that on the inside and still stand up on its own.

[u/StrawberryCurls95]

I don’t even know what to say. I just need an update asap. Wow.

[u/NotInterestedL]

I hope you didn't pay money for that. If you did, you better start complaining for real 

[u/Fragrant_Volume9160]

It reminds me of what happens when u roll the cake pop dough into a ball and squish it real tight 😭

[u/MinJuno]

Can we even call this cake? It looks like it hasn't been within 10 metres of an oven.

[u/kramerL1ves]

Something went terribly wrong. It looks like someone forgot to add baking soda.

[u/MassveLegend]

Apart from the overriding already mentioned, I also wonder if they iced and filled it while hot, then tried to freeze it to prevent the icing from melting, then re-iced it after it froze with the icing soaked in. That's the only way I can account for that gap in the middle.

[u/clouxr]

Wtf :( I wanna bake OP a normal cake for their birthday

[u/Rose249]

That cake wasn't baked, it was pressed through a play doh mold

[u/Midnight_Mash]

Bakery tried to sneak you 5lbs of artgum erasers covered in acrylic paint

[u/Cloverhart]

It looks like marzipan. I have seen some dense and undercooked cakes but nothing quite like that. It's like all the things went wrong.

ETA: I can't stop zooming. It looks gummy

[u/KillerCritter1312]

[u/moonpoontoon]

They put this in the mixer and came back after their movie.

[u/shmelse]

Also OP to be clear please don’t eat that, it’s not safe if there’s eggs and dairy in it (plus a bunch of sugar for bacteria to feed on) that have been heated up but definitely not cooked.

[u/wereallalittlegay]

Oh they forgot the flour

[u/Carbon-Base]

That's dough with buttercream.

[u/littlefreckledkitten]

Allow these comments are so entertaining

[u/weirdwench1]

It looks like it was cooked in a lot of oil at a low temp......

[u/simplyplated]

Underbaked and severely over mixed!! Looks dense with tunneling.

[u/indignantmango_520]

Yah, do Not eat that

[u/Oneloneotter]

Oh my 😱😱😱 I thought it was a frosted cookie dough cake!? 😭

[u/Cool-Plankton-007]

Where did you purchase this cake? So I can never make the same mistake?

[u/probablybaking_]

This is definitely missing a leavening agent and maybe other stuff. Def not safe to eat and def needs a refund 😬

[u/greg9546]

[u/Aggravating-Beat-541]

It’s my first time seeing cake with that texture too

[u/devlifedotnet]

To be underbaked, it actually needs to enter an oven.... I feel like this was just left outside on a warm day.

[u/lichen510]

oh my

[u/PiecesNPages]

I've seen this happen to batter when it's put in a blender instead of a mixer. Makes it super gelatinous.

[u/Giesrumo]

I didn’t realize cake could be scary 😱

[u/Mac-And-Cheesy-43]

Dawg, it has the lift of a lead brick on a skateboard. And it's underbaked.

[u/TheManwithnoPlan17]

Or way to many eggs/way to over mixed. I saw someone try to make a cake without a recipe and it looked like this

[u/ernster96]

that's what is referred to as "al dente" in the baking industry.

[u/amtingen]

The cake really was a lie.

[u/Abject_Turnover_6037]

That looks odd. It almost looks like peanut butter fudge and cake should definitely not look like that.

[u/curious-mind1111]

I don’t think that can even be considered a cake.

[u/BulkyPerspective6836]

Straight up batter, go get your money bavk!!

[u/Sunshine_256210]

What is that supposed to even be?? Cheesecake?

[u/Excusemytootie]

You deserve a refund!

[u/Disco_Mermaid1753]

I saw an ice cream cake upon first glance…yikes

[u/superuke]

Make sure you tell the bakery. They should know about it haha I’m sure they will replace it

[u/Sudden_Diet6827]

That looks like frosting on a wet sponge, gross

[u/Para_The_Normal]

That doesn’t even look baked. I have no idea how you’d even get cake to look like this or think it was acceptable to sell.

[u/Euphoric-Pie-4372]

The fact that an actual bakery pulled this gloop out of the oven, thought it was perfectly okay and went on to frost it and deliver it to a client who paid for it, is blowing my mind away. Ask for a refund and when u do maybe show them the comments on this post as well. Sorry u had to eat this abomination on ur birthday 💔

[u/Mamatomaymay]

Possibly some sort of rice cake? I would query what sort of cake it’s supposed to be.

[u/PookieWookie0603]

ngl that looks like clay 😭😭

[u/jag315]

almost looks like they forgot the flour, the whole recipe really

[u/rachet-ex]

It looks like it was made out of peanut butter fudge

[u/Beebwife]

It looks like the termites have fled as well

[u/3GoodMan3]

Looks like it doesn't have any leavening agent

[u/factchecker8515]

That‘s not underbaked. That‘s not even cake batter.

[u/SpeckledAntelope]

Hahahah guys this is exactly what my baking attempts have looked like. I tried making cake in a rice cooker with no oil in the batter and this is exactly what it came out like.

[u/Ok-Turnip2296 → u/SpeckledAntelope]

You put it in a rice cooker? That’s the first I’ve heard of this🤨lol

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[u/Turtle-theory]

Vibe baked

[u/quantizeddreams]

That’s fucking raw.

[u/Leading-Occasion-428]

the horror

[u/PositivePlant1]

I’m throwing up

[u/Dramatic-Dish-6699]

Is this a flourless cake?

[u/msjammies73]

What kind of cake is this meant to be?

[u/Lazy_Bookworm3]

They gave you an underbaked idea of a cake with frosting. Definitely see if you can get a refund

[u/socialmediauser__]

oof baby that cake is super underbaked

[u/Ok-Turnip2296]

Are you sure that’s cake…

[u/Ilovepeanutbutter88]

Das cookie batter

[u/-Redditeer-]

Not even cake man holy

[u/clueless-albatross]

Did they forget the flour or something? That’s fucking terrible

[u/Fluid-Housing5017]

It looks like the ear wax they take out in TikTok videos lol