The first pancake is lumpy: 22 examples of terrible baking, which makes you uncomfortable

Baking is almost always delicious, but not always beautiful. Users of the @bakingfail subreddit shared their culinary failures, and we made a selection of the strangest, funniest and sometimes even frightening pastries. By the way, according to the authors, some of these "masterpieces" tasted very good. Or maybe it just seemed that way against the background of the sight of these yummy things.

"I tried to bake sponge cakes. Failed. I tried to resuscitate them by putting them in the freezer. Failed even more."

"My grandmother baked Easter cookies. They look like they've learned the essence of being."

"A fudge cake that boiled and turned into soup."

"Accidentally used powdered sugar instead of flour in banana bread."

"It was supposed to be raspberry tortillas, but instead it turned out to be some kind of plague cakes. No, they didn't burn down. I don't know what happened."

Well, at least nice.

"My attempt to make football cookies for yesterday's game."

Expectation vs reality.

"I baked cupcakes with monster cookies for my child's kindergarten and scared the hell out of the kids."

"The recipe says to divide into two loaves, but I guess there should have been three."

The Easter bunny is in a hurry for the holiday.

"The recipe meant crushed pretzels and coarse salt, but I only had salty sticks and black volcanic salt, and now I have a dozen nasty dirty cookies-ashtrays."

They were supposed to be chocolate chip cookies.

"What I tried to do and what I got."

Cake "Cursed hedgehog".

An attempt to make a horse out of cupcakes.

Eat some more of these soft French rolls…

"I tried the meringue recipe for the first time. I couldn't get hard peaks, but I decided to cook them anyway. As I watched them slowly deflate, I felt like my soul was doing the same thing."

The cupcakes just evaporated.

"I tried to bake a cake in the form of a hedgehog for my mother's birthday... it turned out very badly."

Brutal bears.

"Probably the ugliest cinnamon buns I've ever seen. Fortunately, they were surprisingly delicious."