I Didn’t Have Eggs

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As long as the fractions balance each other out, the recipe stays the same, right? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to c/ididnthaveeggs@sh.itjust.works

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well there's the problem. You subtracted half a cup of 4 ingredients (coconut, pecans, pineapple, raisins), thus -2 cups total. But then you only put one extra cup of carrots instead of 2 extra cups.

[–] mech@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's it. The cake texture is inside the missing cup!

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I bet they just added the carrots all together instead of in half cup increments for each replaced ingredient individually. You might be able to fool a cake on the content of ingredients you add, but never on the number of steps. Pretty sure I've read that in a cookbook somewhere.