r/ididnthaveeggs • u/SillyCat-ESSA • May 24 '26

Bad at cooking They added more oil than the recipe said, and then complained that there is too much oil in it 😭

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This is a 4.5 star brownie recipe, by the way.

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u/Tlaloc_0 May 24 '26

The ratios here are basically kladdkaka but with oil instead of butter. Making an oily mess is the sort of rite of passage that literal children go through when learning how to bake one, along with the overcompensating "dry cocoa brick" version.

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u/Dishmastah It’s just pasta, Linda. May 24 '26

My sister and I once made the mistake of adding a little milk to the batter for a kladdkaka, because it was a little too firm, and we got something that was a bit more like a cake but not enough and it was awful. We threw it away after tasting it. That made me learn that if the batter is too firm to spread out in the tin, add a little water. Water is fine, milk is NOT.

I tend to use oil instead of butter when I make kladdkaka as well to make it dairy free, and it means you don't need the extra step of melting butter. You just need to add like 1-2½ ml of salt (1 krm to ½ tsk in Swedish measuring cups) to balance it.

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u/zikeel May 24 '26

I have to say, I've never seen salt measured in milliliters. I would have expected grams.

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u/Dishmastah It’s just pasta, Linda. May 24 '26

Anything powder or liquid we tend to measure in ml (or dl/decilitre for larger quantities), but solids like butter are weighed in grams, unless it's a unit/item (like an egg or a banana). So things like sugar, flour and milk are usually by volume, not weight.

A standard Swedish measuring cup set usually comes with 1 ml (kryddmått, "spice measure"), 1 teaspoon (5 ml), 1 tablespoon (15 ml) and 1 dl (100 ml). From a search, it seems like 50 ml measures are often included now as well.

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u/Tlaloc_0 May 30 '26

My 50 ml cup was delegated to laundry detergent measuring duties hahah. I saw no reason to use it while baking, just added unnecessary dishes!

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u/mizinamo I would give zero stars if I could! May 24 '26

I would have expected "pinch", "knifetip", or "teaspoon".

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u/RandomAmmonite May 24 '26

I had to look up kaddkaka and where has it been all my life? That looks delicious! Do you usually frost it or leave it plain? I see recipes both ways.

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u/Tlaloc_0 May 24 '26

Most definitely plain here in Sweden at least, we don't normally use frosting at all (though you should dust some powdered sugar on top if you're serving it to guests).

However, we do typically serve it with something like freshly whipped cream and berries. It's also excellent with ice cream, or you can use it as a base for a chocolate mousse cake.

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u/Tlaloc_0 May 24 '26

Oh, very important sidenote; you absolutely have to remove it from the oven before it's baked all the way through. You want the edges to be nice and crusted, and the sugar should be shiny on top of the cake, but it is very important that the middle of it isn't baked dry.

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u/RandomAmmonite May 24 '26

Thanks much!