I made pound cake from scratch, and it smelled and tasted horrible?!
1/2lb butter
3/4c sugar
5 eggs
2c enriched flour
1t Vanilla
Pinch of salt
I was sorta being lazy and eye balled most of the measurements, but I thought it was fine since I ended with a creamy batter I couldn't find my loaf pan so I put it in a normal cake pan. I left it in the oven at 350 degrees for about thirty minutes it made the house smell pretty good...Until I took it out it smelled wretched I took a piece hoping it was something else in the kitchen, and it was fluffy, moist, and taste like someone's only pair of socks. Thing is I don't know what ingredients I should tamper with, because I don't know which wildly affects taste. So why Did My cake taste Bad, but looked delicious .
Note: I wasn't sure how to cream Butter and Sugar so the finished version still had granules in it, and I'm unsure if that's suppose to happen or not
Answers:
Amarulws, in baking there is a rule, which is stick to the recipe because it's exact. Also should have used the butter.
creaming butter is when you put the butter and the sugar into a mixing bowl and mix them with a beater until the sugar is all incorporated into the butter and it is all smooth with no granules left
your eggs could have been bad, or your butter could have been
i dont see any other reason for the stink and bad taste
Maybe the butter was rancid? The eggs old and off? It should have looked bad but tasted good, not the other way around.