I will actually make the resulting cake at market close.
Note that my cake is slightly different from the tumblr cake because it will be vegan. I have chosen nearest vegan equivalents for the items in the list.
Further information:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vanilla-extract
Ingredients will be proportioned by weight and cooked to the best my ability. I do know how to bake pretty well.
Depending on the proportions of the final ingredients, I may choose to make a single cupcake.
I generated a random number in [0,1,2] and resolved to choose milk if 0 and flour otherwise. My reasoning was that those are the ingredients you need most of, and people are going to way over-vote on the smaller ingredients. My RNG determined that I should vote for flour.
I considered just voting for milk because I thought flour, as the #1 ingredient, might already be fairly represented by the "vote for the obvious thing" crowd, but I decided to go with the RNG. Turns out it would have been smart to vote for milk.
@Mad every time someone votes for vanilla extract I make my peace with this cake being made with vanilla extract instead of milk
Note I make my own extract out of brandy and vanilla beans so I predict this will end v badly unless I become an alcoholic very soon
@21eleven just egg isn't available in Australia. I usually use ogran "no egg" in baking but it would be hard to add it by weight in a way that would be equivalent to chicken eggs, so I went with applesauce as I think it will have similar properties by weight.
Yes I do overthink everything! That's not at all typical of a manifold user, is it ๐.
@AlaaRanga so what you're saying is we need to get 480 votes to have a chatgpt-approved cake recipe?
@Mad Why did you pick 480 votes? You could get 1sigfig accuracy with just 280 votes, you could also get less than 20% error for every ingredient with 200 votes (source: messed around on a google sheet) (this scenario isn't feasible though due to the current poll results).
@AlaaRanga This is why you have the google sheet and I have the cake pans! I'm intrigued to see what I get. I'm hoping that I somehow get something pleasantly edible, but the prediction market is not confident.
@Mad Can you scale down the vanilla extract votes by a factor of 5? Way too many of them. Do you even have enough vanilla?
@nathanwei I actually make my own so I have enough. Scaling is for cowards.
My plan is to do 1-10g of each ingredient per vote depending on the final number of votes, so it will be a small cake.