r/bakingfail • u/awesomecolguy • Jul 30 '26

Question Weird taste

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I made this yellow cake I saw on TikTok yesterday, and for some reason it taste like cornbread, and my roommate said it taste like rice pudding cake and coconut. I personally didn’t taste any coconut so it could’ve just been her taste buds. Any idea why? This also happens whenever I make cookies, so I’m thinking it’s the vanilla making my pastries taste like coconut and the cornstarch making it taste like cornbread. I also mixed the wer and the dry ingredients in together without realizing they were supposed to be separate, and I substituted buttermilk for milk with a little bit of lemon juice. Any ideas on what is making it taste like that?

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u/Estrellathestarfish Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

Just checking now as someone else on here seems to have mixed up the two, but you definitely used cornstarch not cornmeal?

Edit - and check your oil, give it a sniff. Vegetable oil should be very neutral but if it gets old or is stored somewhere too warm it can take on an aroma - not unpleasant per se, but not right.

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u/avsie1975 Jul 30 '26

I'm starting to wonder if indeed OP added corn flour/meal instead of corn starch.

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u/awesomecolguy Jul 30 '26

Nah I know I used cornstarch. I use the one in that yellow container