Cooking is a skill many people would love to master. Since they also enjoy eating, being able to prepare whatever they crave for themselves would create an ideal cycle. Some of these people have truly put in the effort, and it shows in their dishes, such as the baking creations shared by Reddit users that we will showcase below!
Birthday Cake
Reddit user TurnerkBallet revealed one of these baking creations included this cake that was for her father’s birthday. Everything on the cake is edible except for the ducks that are store-bought decorations. She also revealed that the ‘water’ is made of jello, and the cake itself is made of one layer of vanilla and chocolate buttercream. Finally, she mentioned that she has been baking cakes for birthdays since 2017-18 and spent about 10 hours on this one.
Cookie Chaos
Reddit user SmallGingerLady revealed: “Every year I bake a ton of cookies for family and friends. Here’s all 2,162 now that Cookie Chaos is over. I cooked 38 buckets throughout six days, including the gluten-free and sugar-free cookies.” She also pointed out that she accidentally yanked the handle off halfway through one cookie bake so she took it as a sign to take a break for a bit and literally had to screw her oven back together.
Failed Decoration
Reddit user Duskymoonlight mentioned that one of these baking creations started when she saw three really ripe bananas on her counter, she decided to used them on a simple chewy brownie recipe that a friend of hers gave her. She also revealed that she didn’t know the decoration was supposed to be added after baking, so the result was the picture on the right.
Switch Cake
Reddit user PuzzleheadedOccasion revealed that the Nintendo Switch cake has chocolate inside and the icing is vanilla. She also mentioned that the scraps of this cake were used to make another cake that was dairy free because the birthday boy’s sister was sensitive to diary.
Apple Pie
Reddit user heeeah revealed one of her favorite baking creations was this apple pie where she found joy and creativity in baking after going through some tough times with drinking problems. And to celebrate that she is doing better, she made this apple pie. To make the lattice she looked for herringbone lattice pies which was rolling out the dough balls, measuring 2 cm strips, weaving, and putting them in.
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Chocolate Chip Dipping Sticks
Reddit user LetsCookie made these chocolate chip dipping sticks from 2 cups of all-purpose flour, 3/4 tbsp of baking soda, 1/4 tbsp of baking powder, 1/2 tbsp of salt, 6 oz of butter softened, 1 1/4 cups of dark brown sugar packed, 1 large egg and 1 tbsp of vanilla extract. With those ingredients and after baking the dough at 375 °F for 8 to 10 minutes you can make about 18 to 20 cookie sticks.
Finally Graduated
Reddit user Barbi0za revealed that one of these baking creations is a Squidward-themed cake that has triple chocolate mousse infused with a coffee liqueur syrup. She chose this layout because her friend’s favorite show from childhood was SpongeBob, and also mentioned that the ‘D’s in ‘did’ were turned the wrong way because it was very late when she did the lettering and couldn’t arrange it.
Enormous Cinnamon Rolls
Reddit user PrincessDab revealed that she works at a donut shop in Iowa where they sell enormous cinnamon rolls like the ones in the image. She also mentioned that she loves making those, her goal is to always achieve the most spirals possible and that the sheet where they are is 18×26 inches.
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Rabbit Art Cake
Reddit user AccordingDish3728 revealed that she took some classes to make this roll cake and when it came time to cut into it, she was almost heartbroken. One of these baking creations is a really beautifully decorated cake. A reply from user pocketMagician mentioned: “Eating is part of the experience, at least that’s what I tell myself when I destroy a perfect coconut cake.”
Perfect Chocolate Cookie
Reddit user thefloralapron revealed that the secret in these cookies came down to pampering them right after they came out of the oven. He also mentioned: “You have to bang the pan on the stove immediately after removing from the oven to get them to deflate a little prematurely to make the cracks and valleys and add a few extra chocolate chips to the outside of the cookie dough balls before baking so they stick out nicely.”
Snake Cake
Reddit user Ok_Horror_2572 mentioned that it was her mother who baked this snake cake for her 10th birthday. We don’t know if all the people are suitable for one of this baking creations. Some of the users liked the cake so much, like lies4omthetablecl0th that replied: “That’s incredible! I would be so sad to cut into it.”
Multi Fruit Pie
Reddit user heavy_pterodactyl mentioned that his sister made a pumpkin, apple, cherry and mincemeat pie bite-sized, to make one of these baking creations pull-apart pieces. This is more of an art form of cooking than simply a pie. She revealed that she saw the recipe on one of those 30 seconds reels on Facebook and went into it. It was made from 4 refrigerated pie crusts, using a champagne flute to cut rounds, egg wash top side, fold rounds in half, fill with pie filling of choice, and use a springform pan with parchment paper on bottom and some flour on back side. Finally, bake at 400 degrees for around 45 minutes.
Perfect Cheesecake
Reddit user _wrpd revealed that she used Stella Parks’ recipe as a base to do this cheesecake but added a few tweaks. She passed the mixture through a 50-mesh sieve and 80-mesh sieve, and finally through a fine mesh sieve as it’s going into the baking vessel. Then, the cake was cooked at 225/40-50% steam injection for 1 hr 45 minutes.
Realistic Cake, No Pancake
Reddit user Caliandthemouse revealed that this is a snickerdoodle cake, with brown sugar, cinnamon cream cheese frosting and corn starch. One of these baking creations it’s filled with buttery cinnamon swirls and it’s made in equal parts of vanilla cake and snickerdoodles. Their ingredients are butter, cake flour, eggs, baking powder, buttermilk, brown sugar and cinnamon.
UPS Retirement Cake
Reddit user iamnotchris revealed that a family member was retiring from UPS so he decided to make this cake for him. One of these baking creations looks like an Amazon package cake, the business rival of UPS delivery service. He revealed that he had to design this raspberry and buttercream cake, he 3D-printed some stencils for the details and did a buttercream transfer for the tape.
Super Mario Cookies
Reddit user RinjiDes revealed that as an amateur baker she posted an advertisement for 8 cookies for $35 and someone ordered 24 baking creations for her son’s birthday. The woman that lives in San Antonio, Texas but doesn’t ship cookies revealed that those are sugar cookies and the royal icing is made of egg whites, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and a little lime juice.
Christmas Cocoa Cake Beanie
Reddit user PineappleAndCoconut mentioned that this Christmas cake is a peppermint hot cocoa cake with marshmallow Swiss meringue buttercream and a peppermint chocolate spread filling. She revealed that it took some hours to decorate it but she really spent a lot of time waiting for crumb coats to set up in the fridge because she baked the cake the day before and froze it so it would be easier to carve. One of these baking creations was made to resembled a knitted winter beanie.
Blueberry Pie
Reddit user coffee-addict32 revealed that she made a blueberry pie and her dad commented that it tasted good but that’s not a traditional pie. She mentioned that he pointed out it had to be sweeter, more syrupy, and taller. Despite this, the user expressed that her dad ate the whole piece because he’ll never turn down dessert. This is just another one of these baking creations made at home.
Space Whale Cake
Reddit user kristina-dolnyk revealed that one of the symbols of the customer’s activity is a whale, so that’s why she decided to go that way. One of these baking creations featured layers of rich chocolate as she added that she only works with regular chocolate, without any additives and that the cake is straight up chocolate ganache, chocolate sponge, milk chocolate air mousse and hazelnut cream.
Easter Lamb Red Velvet Cake
One of these baking creations was a red velvet Easter lamb cake that Reddit user Poe1031 revealed that inside has red velvet with cream cheese icing on the outside. A reply from user Turbulent_Database90 mentioned that people do every animal except snakes because they don’t have the counter space.
Conclusion
From cakes that look like works of art to simple cookies that appear just as appetizing, these baking creations prove that imagination, patience, and practice can produce remarkable homemade desserts. Things might not turn out exactly as you expected at first, but you will gradually perfect your skills, just like these Reddit users.
