We like Canada as much as everyone else (oh hi, Trudeau!), but today, we’re seriously questioning their judgment in food. We were okay pretending that their ketchup chips didn’t exist. After all, the country brought us poutine — one slip-up is acceptable. But now they’ve gone and created ketchup cake, and we just can’t. We just…can’t.
The abomination from up north is called the “Great Canadian Ketchup Cake.” It hit fame on the interwebz after a Reddit user saw the suggestion for it on the back of his bottle of Canadian-produced Heinz ketchup and posted it to the Mildly Interesting subreddit.
Cue the comments of outrage and disgust. As user FreddiePrinzeJrForLife wrote, “’And next up we will be looking at Ketchup Cake on this week’s edition of ‘Absolutely f*cking not.’’”
And that’s when gregnuttle stepped in.
You don’t even know the half of it. I actually tracked this abomination down on the Kraft Canada website. Other ingredients include MAGIC baking powder, red food coloring, and peanut butter. F*cking peanut butter!
You know what, f*ck it, I’m making it this afternoon. Go ahead and do a RemindMe! 12 Hours on this if you want, I’m doing it.
Nuttle kept his originally-stated promise, documenting the creation of the famed ketchup cake on Reddit, Imgur, and YouTube. And boy, does it look…like something. The recipe actually doesn’t contain peanut butter, but that’s a mistake that Nuttle corrects in his first YouTube video, which is essentially a rundown of the cake’s ingredients that outs him as a very amateur baker. (He confused peanut butter for butter, and decided throwing a whole nutmeg into the batter would be a decent substitute for ground nutmeg.)
“Good luck, Greg Nuttle,” you say, as you eagerly scroll down for photos of the batter, the icing, and the finished cake.
Finally, the time to taste his concoction arrived. Nuttle invited three friends over for an unbiased taste test and caught their reactions on video. He also managed to take a bite himself.
The verdict: “It’s a perfectly acceptable cake,” one of his friends says, surprised. “It’s moist, it’s sweet,” another pitches in. Greg himself — a vegan who decided to try his cake because he spent so much time on it — labels it as “pretty good.” The friends agree that the ketchup flavor doesn’t come out too much, but then they ask the opinion of the fourth tester, Paul, who hasn’t pitched in. And Paul finally drops the truth bomb on the ketchup cake.
“If you eat it with the frosting, it’s really gross.”
So there you have it. If you’re curious and/or stupid enough to try it for yourself, you can find the recipe on AllRecipes — it actually has a fairly decent rating, with a 4 1/2 star average out of seven reviews. Just don’t make us eat it so we can all stay friends.
