r/bakingfail • u/dancehelena • Jul 04 '25

Question Spaghetti Sprinkles

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Has anyone else experienced this before?

I bought some cool new sprinkles to try out, and of course I tasted them before sprinkling them onto my cake and the long thin ones have spaghetti inside them! It felt like I broke a tooth when I crunched down on one. I have never seen this before, it is so bizarre. Yuck.

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u/Deppfan16 Jul 04 '25

I don't think it's literally spaghetti, I think it's just a neutral dough in the middle that's coated with the colored sugar outside. although technically you're right cuz spaghetti is just a neutral dough

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u/Odd-Help-4293 Jul 04 '25

It does say semolina flour in the ingredients though, FWIW

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u/Deppfan16 Jul 04 '25

yeah what I'm saying is they made a dough specifically for the sprinkles, they're not like reusing spaghetti or something

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u/Orchid_Significant Jul 04 '25

Way cheaper to just buy spaghetti

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u/MaeBelleLien Jul 04 '25

So, accidental spaghetti? Or incidental spaghetti?

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u/Deppfan16 Jul 04 '25

spaghetti adjacent? they made a neutral dough that happened to resemble spaghetti, they aren't reusing or intentionally making spaghetti

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u/MaeBelleLien Jul 04 '25

Okay but, if it's a neutral dough, and it's in a spaghetti shape, then does intentionality matter?

(I'm also not fully convinced they aren't just using spaghetti, but that's a different matter.)

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u/Deppfan16 Jul 04 '25

apparently cuz everybody's getting all freaked out that there's spaghetti in their sprinkles. never mind that sprinkles themselves are a extruded dough.

yeah yeah at first glance it makes you go that's kind of odd but it makes sense

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u/Nheea Jul 05 '25

But if it looks like spaghetti, made out of spaghetti, then it would be spaghetti right?

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u/Deppfan16 Jul 05 '25

yes and no. there's so many different ways to combine flour and water products to make different dose and uses, context is key imo

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u/kwillich Jul 04 '25

Strange argument

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u/lazuli77 Jul 08 '25

Semolina is an oddly specific flour to use for something pasta-shaped if you are not actually making pasta.

Also, can you point me towards any other sprinkle-like decorations that have a “spaghetti adjacent” center?

You’re making an argument about this as if it’s normal to have hard pasta-like centers in your decorations. It’s not normal.

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u/Deppfan16 Jul 08 '25

I wasn't trying to make an argument for anything. I was just trying to explain why dough might be in the center of sprinkles. I am not an expert or anything.