The Bakery Of Nightmares | Culinary Crimes
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Summary
Takeaways
- ❖A 'healthy' morning glory muffin recipe was transformed into a meat-filled monstrosity using spam, hot dogs, beef jerky, canned corn beef, and bacon for a carnivore diet.
- ❖M&M cookies were made with bacon grease instead of butter/eggs and molasses instead of brown sugar, producing a 'burnt rubber' flavor.
- ❖Brownies were prepared using Diet Coke as a substitute for oil and eggs, resulting in a lighter, mochi-like texture.
- ❖The hosts surprisingly preferred the meat-filled 'crime' muffin over the original 'healthy' morning glory muffin, which they found unappetizing.
Insights
1Carnivore Diet Muffins: A Meat-Filled Culinary Experiment
A Reddit user modified a 'Healthy Protein Morning Glory Muffin' recipe to accommodate a niece on a carnivore diet. This involved replacing pineapple with spam, carrots with hot dogs, zucchini with beef jerky, quinoa with canned corn beef, and raisins with chopped bacon. The hosts described the resulting muffin as a 'massive hot dog wrapped in yummy baked good' and, surprisingly, some preferred it over the original recipe.
The incident report details the substitutions made for the carnivore diet. The hosts' tasting experience and subsequent preference for the 'crime' muffin over the original.
2Bacon Grease and Molasses: The M&M Cookie Disaster
An M&M cookie recipe was severely altered when a user, lacking butter, eggs, and brown sugar, improvised with bacon grease and molasses. The hosts described the resulting cookie as having a 'savory smell,' tasting like 'burnt rubber,' 'ass,' and a 'butt fart cookie,' highlighting the detrimental impact of these substitutions on a sweet baked good.
The suspect's confession about using bacon grease for butter/eggs and molasses for brown sugar. The hosts' strong negative reactions during the tasting.
3Diet Coke Brownies: An Unexpected Texture Shift
A Pillsbury zero sugar brownie mix was prepared using Diet Coke instead of oil and eggs. The user noted the texture resembled 'fudge and mochi.' The hosts found the 'crime' brownie to be very light, squishy, and more akin to a cake than a traditional brownie, confirming the significant textural change caused by the Diet Coke substitution.
The suspect's description of the brownie texture and the hosts' tasting experience, noting its lightness and cake-like consistency.
Lessons
- Avoid extreme, non-standard ingredient substitutions in baking, especially for foundational components like fats and binders (butter, eggs, oil), as they often lead to unpalatable results.
- If a specific dietary need (e.g., carnivore diet) requires significant recipe alteration, consider finding entirely new recipes tailored to those needs rather than attempting to force substitutions into an incompatible base.
- When improvising in baking, be aware that replacing key ingredients with highly pungent or savory items (like bacon grease) will drastically alter the intended flavor profile of sweet treats.
Quotes
"Guys, this might be a hot take, BUT I THINK I PREFERRED THE MEAT VERSION."
"It's like you took some some wonderful baked bread and wrapped it around a massive hot dog."
"It does. It tastes like rubber. Burned rubber. Rubber burned rubber."
"I'm like, what did they replace the quinoa with? Canned spam. Canned. Well, it's two words. I was thinking, is this like corned beef in here? Is there canned corn beef?"
"That molasses just brown sugar and liquid brown sugar? No. So molasses is its own ingredient and then you add molasses to just like white cane sugar and then that becomes brown sugar."
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