If you think real-life’s scary enough as it is, just you wait till you take a peek at some of these cakes, Pandas. The stuff of nightmares, these baked goods look so cursed, you might want to consider washing your screen with holy water afterward.

Today, we’re featuring the one-and-only ‘Cakes With Threatening Auras’ Twitter page, a social media project that’s as frightening as it is delicious(ly evil). The page features photos of cakes that range from the comically bizarre to the downright demonic. We’ve never seen icing used so maliciously before!

You might want to arm yourselves with a thermos full of coffee and a cup full of Unsee-Juice™, dear Pandas. Ready to dive headfirst into the land of cursed sweetness? Don’t worry, we’re here for you if you need a shoulder to cry on. Don’t forget to upvote the pics of cakes that scared you the most. Oh, and if for some reason you’re still hungry after this list, you can always find more where that came from: here’s Bored Panda’s earlier article about the online phenomenon that is ‘Cakes With Threatening Auras.’ 

More info: Twitter | Instagram

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At the time of writing, ‘Cakes With Threatening Auras’ had 261.6k followers on Twitter, up from 141k hungry fans in September 2020. Meanwhile, the social media project’s cursed cakes have drawn in a further 13.1k followers on Instagram. The only thing we can say is that it’s spreading, oh God, it’s spreading—

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The founder describes the project as being “an educational account about cakes” which is all that you need to know about how awesome their sense of humor is. Educational? Perhaps in terms of learning about the different shades and tastes of fear? Side note: imagine actually getting one of these cakes on your birthday.

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Previously, Canadian cake maker and designer Darci, of Kake by Darci, shared her baking tips with Bored Panda.

“I would probably say the most common mistakes are wrong order of ingredients added in to the recipe. Very important for baking as it’s a science!” she said that baking requires care, attention, and meticulousness in order to get the very best results.

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According to cake expert Darci, some of the biggest problems appear when someone doesn’t weigh the ingredients they use. What’s more, a lot of issues pop up when the baker over- and under-mixes the ingredients.

“All of these small factors can make or break the cake!” she told us.

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In Darci’s opinion, overloading cakes with unnecessary details is something that’s best avoided. Otherwise, you might turn what’s otherwise a perfectly fine cake into something that looks plain bad.

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“I prefer simple designs and simple details. I feel like you can have a beautiful cake and go overboard with too much—flowers, candy, colors, textures. It can be a fine line between too much and not enough.”

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Once you understand the rules of baking, you can then start breaking them and experimenting with the ingredients, Darci told us earlier.

“Baking is a science. Every ingredient has a purpose,” Darci said. “Leaveners provide lift. Gluten/flours provide structure. Eggs [act as] binders. Liquid / oils [provide] moisture. Sugars [give] tenderness and sweetness,” she explained what the main ingredients do.

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Meanwhile, pie artist Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin told us that there are certain chemical reactions that need to happen for pastry to become pastry, and for cake to become cake.

“If you alter certain variables (heat, time, acidity, etc.) you may get a result you aren’t thrilled with… That said, you may be pleasantly surprised!” she noted the pros and cons of experimenting with recipes.

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“And what better way to learn, ‘Oh! That’s what an egg does in this recipe’ or, ‘Oh! That’s why they say to chill the dough overnight first’ than by jumping in and trying it? If you’ve got the time, and are cool with learning from failure (something I do all the time) tinker away!” she said that baking mistakes are learning opportunities.

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But if you’re pressed for time or that oh-so-rare thing called patience, you should definitely stick to the baking recipe as-is. Don’t go changing anything if you need everything to go perfectly! Leave the experimentation for times when you can afford to mess up.

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Source: boredpanda.com