We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about the worst thing they've ever baked. These are some of the best and most horrifying replies...
1. The kebab cake.
2. The eggy surprise.
"When I was a kid my brother and I were baking brownies from a box mix. We put the pan in the oven and a couple minutes in we realized we never mixed in the eggs. We took it out and mixed them in. Our end result was a batch of flat brownies with pockets of cooked egg. It was a monstrosity."
Submitted by sauce91
3. The bake with the creepily staring eyes.
4. The FRANKLY HORRIFYING fish cake.
5. The cherpumple, which probably felt like a good idea.
6. The salty muffins.
"I accidently put 225g of salt instead of sugar in a batch of muffins. My dad asked for the first taste; I'll never forget his face XD"
Submitted by Katie Howard via Facebook
7. The blueberry "galette".
8. The cupcakes that weren't worth the cleanup.
9. This cake that is meant to look like the Earth. Actually.
10. The Spongebob reject.
11. The PICKLE CAKE. 😩
"The first time I ever tried to bake was in elementary school. I can't eat eggs so I looked up an eggless cake recipe which called for vinegar and baking soda. We didn't have vinegar in the house. But I did notice we had pickles. So naturally, I decided that pickle vinegar would work for the recipe. The cake came out slightly green and tasted disgustingly like pickles. I still forced my parents to taste it but I was banned from baking for a few months after that and my mom threw the cake out without telling me. I insisted that it wasn't that bad but it really was the worst tasting cake in history."
Submitted by Radhika Natarajan via Facebook
12. The Lego udder.
13. The chicken brownies.
"When I was 12, my cousin and I decided to bake brownies. All was fine and the brownies came out looking beautiful. However, when we bit into them, they tasted horribly off. It turns out that my mom had thrown her leftover chicken oil in an empty vegetable oil bottle and put it back in the cabinet without telling anyone. Thanks, mom…"
Submitted by kad52cards
14. The apology cake.
15. The vegan...thing.
16. The NSFW cupcakes.
"My sophomore year of high school, I thought it would be a good idea to try my hand at making cupcakes that looked like eyeballs. This was my first experience with fondant, so I went ~basic~ and just used white fondant across the top of each cupcake, a small dab of light brown frosting (for the iris) and on top of that, a brown ball for the pupil. Well, I didn’t realize until I was done that I had accidentally made twenty-four cupcakes that looked absolutely nothing like eyeballs, and absolutely everything like titties. Needless to say, I went out to the store and bought cupcakes instead, but to this day my friends still tease me about the time I made two dozen boob cupcakes."
Submitted by savethesquirrels
17. The fire hazard.
18. The OTHER fire hazard.
19. The MAYO CAKE. JESUS CHRIST.
"One time, my sister was baking a cake and we didn’t have anymore eggs or oil, so she used mayo. It tasted like sausages and sage. Nastiest cake I’ve ever tasted."
Submitted by selaris
20. The vegan blob.
21. The crying cake.
22. The chicken cake, part two.
"One time, I baked a cake immediately after baking chicken in the oven. After pulling the cake out, I noticed it had the faint smell of chicken, but I figured it was nothing. Turns out the cake also tasted like chicken… So much so that even chocolate frosting couldn’t cover it up. I still, to this day, don’t know what happened, but friends and family now refer to it as “Chicken Cake”."
Submitted by Ab4
23. This slightly treacherous dessert.
24. The saddest cookies.
25. The mixing disaster.
26. And finally, the worst pizza in the entire world.
"After I stared sadly at the black abyss that is my wallet, I scoured the Internet for a simple pizza recipe that did not require yeast.
I imagined a crispy dough in loving embrace with a tart tomato sauce which in turn tenderly hugs a blanket of mozzarella, with a few kisses of pepperoni.
My body was ready.
All pre-conceived notions of vertically tossing a hand-kneaded, paper-thin disk shattered as my dough batter plopped into the pan. My mozzarella blanket was replaced with a jar of old nacho cheese. Oh well, I thought. Because I’m neither a butcher or an Italian bistro, I lacked pepperoni. Instead, I used slices of hot dog. Sad,I was concocting my own food nightmare.
After baking for what seemed like eternity out climbed an abhorrence. A food fatality. An insult to pizzas everywhere. If you were to throw melted cheese on top of a stuffed pillow you could not tell these apart.
0/10 would not recommend."
Submitted by raddish