Hello,
My friend and I purchased (carried out) a slice of this ~famous~ chocolate cake from a bakery and we think it’s a messed up batch, but we don’t know enough about baking to be sure it’s wrong or how to describe it to the bakery. The cake is very rubbery and tastes like an omelette.
Can you please help us 1) confirm these photos are indicative of a not-so-good bake and 2) how to describe the issue (“channeled air pockets”?) to the bakery?
Your expertise is much appreciated!!
by mrwbh98
47 Comments
Looks a little strange to me… I would complain
It doesn’t look right at all. I think “rubbery and tastes like an omelette” is sufficient for describing it. Send the pictures too.
Those holes are called “tunneling,” which is a hallmark of over-mixing the batter.
It indeed looks like jacked up. It also looks like it was previously frozen with way too much air/cold exposure. Did you see them slice the cake or did they hand you a slice that was already cut?
Does it have any sweetness? It kinda looks like they forgot to add sugar
That’s the strangest cake texture I’ve ever seen
That is definitely not right. So much tunnelling, and the rubbery texture implies they way over mixed it. Hopefully this was just a bad batch.
Ant farm ass cake I would returning that as well. I think they maybe have over mixed like another commenter said. I also have a suspicion they used real chocolate in that batter but it got too cold before they added it, or the eggs were out of the fridge
Doesn’t look right at all!!
This has a texture reminiscent of Vietnamese tapioca cake, chewy texture & lots of tunneling is typical for it. Idk why anyone would want that in a frosted chocolate cake though! So odd.
FYI the texture of this cake looks abnormal for chocolate cake, but there is such thing called a “[honeycomb](https://takestwoeggs.com/banh-bo-nuong/)” cake that has this exact texture – air pockets, chewiness, and all.
Yeah.. the sponge on that is absolute trash. I’m so sorry lol.
I thought it was well done steak!
Kinda thought it was the ribbing of a mushroom at first glance.
It looks like a blood clot, all fibrous and coagulated.
Looks like a chocolate version of the vietnamnese honeycomb cake
I never thought I’d see the day when a slice of chocolate cake was *unappetizing* but here we are.
Oh that is nasty
that’s totally not correct, i’ve never seen a cake look like that. please contact the bakery
This cake looks like a mix of basalt and obsidian. And this is not a compliment.
I thought that was smoked brisket
🤢 looks almost like meat
That cake has zero crumb. I’m pretty impressed tbh.
I’ve never seen a rubber cake and I wish I had never seen it.
😭😭😭
I thought the first picture was steak…..
That’s a messed up texture for a cake yikes
I legit thought OP was holding a mushroom cap
from the first picture I thought this was some smoked meat. My guess was brisket.
that first picture looks almost like beef jerky wtf. that’s CAKE? yea, absolutely complain about this.
It literally scared me lol like I had to click the link to the good picture to stabilize my attraction to chocolate cake. Sorry Op
I thought this was a well done steak for a moment, that’s pretty awful.
Rubbery and omelette means it isn’t right at all, go get that refund
This looks like something that would be served at a birthday party thrown by an alien family that’s desperately trying to blend in with the humans.
At first glance I thought this was a piece of overcooked meat… Now that I know what it actually is, it still looks like overcooked meat.
Overmixed to hell, that is called tunneling. Also looks overbaked as well lending to the strange texture. I would complain and hope they make you a small cake as an apology. If I served one of my guest a cake like that, there would be actual hell to pay.
I thought that was brisket
This is freaking me out. It looks like a cross-section of a mitochondria in a cellular biology textbook!
That doesn’t look right. I’d email them and let them know in a really nice way. And describe it the way you did here and include pictures. Really that cake shouldn’t be being sold and somehow no one noticed that it didn’t come out right. They’ll probably give you another slice of correctly baked cake.
I honestly thought you were holding a piece of meat at first in the first pic 😅
I thought that first picture was a really burnt steak, my ass would NOT eat that cake
Too many eggs no crumb to speak of
That was overmixed past overmixed.
It’s like they doubled the eggs.
“Could be meat. Could be cake. It’s Meat Cake!” – George Carlin
https://youtu.be/aVgUzvxw7dk?si=Rjjxz7p3BcHjWPgH
Are you sure this isn’t solidified magma
I was like “Yummy dry beef 😋”
What the hell 😭😭😭
Looks like brisket.