Made scratch cake - it tasted very bitter

Redrose said:
Too much baking powder for the amount of flour. 1.5 cup is aprox 240 g flour and you should use only 1/2 tsp baking powder. And eventually too much vanilla extract too. That can cause a bitter taste too
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I tend to agree with you. That’s a lot of baking powder to flour ratio. 1 1/2 cups flour isn’t a lot . Both baking powder and vanilla extract could be reduce by half.
 
debodun said:
No, I did add the sugar and had a difficult time blending it with the butter.
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Was your butter soft? Sugar won't blend with cold hard butter very well. It also seems like there wasn't enough liquid (milk) in the recipe. 🤔 Was this recipe a random recipe from a food site or a handwritten recipe that someone gave you? Sometimes people leave out an ingredient accidently.

Food mysteries.🕵️‍♂️
 
Krystal said:
Was your butter soft? Sugar won't blend with cold hard butter very well. It also seems like there wasn't enough liquid (milk) in the recipe. 🤔 Was this recipe a random recipe from a food site or a handwritten recipe that someone gave you? Sometimes people leave out an ingredient accidently.

Food mysteries.🕵️‍♂️
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It was butter right out of the fridge, but I microwaved it a few seconds to soften it. I got the recipe from a Web site, but now I can't remember where. It was a while ago.
 
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Another thought. Did you use cake flour or all purpose flour? Regular flour in "some" cake recipes can make it taste to---heavy, floury, or bland, When I make a vanilla cake, I use a vanilla bean or a Tablespoon of vanilla because I want it to taste like vanilla. :) But of course the amount is for a larger cake too.
 
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debodun said:
No, it didn't have much of any flavor.
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If you add too much baking soda to a recipe, the baked good will likely rise excessively and then collapse, resulting in a dense, coarse texture with a potential soapy taste, as the excess baking soda reacts with the liquids in the batter, creating too much carbon dioxide gas that can't be properly contained by the other ingredients; this can also lead to a bitter flavor depending on the recipe.
 
Nathan said:
Maybe your sense of taste is off, have someone else sample it.
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It really could be this. I will comment on a flavour of something I made and DH will say it’s good. I developed a dislike of gel toothpastes. Since they still sell these, it’s obviously something that’s changed with me.

Did you do a taste test of the vanilla.
 
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