Material Baking Problem - Baking output is different from the material

[hi_there_dear_john]

I’m having a strange issue where I cannot get a texture I want to bake from a material to look the way it should. It appears certain things like the AO node in the material are not being calculated for some reason.
I’m baking a combined pass from an emission shader that uses the albedo as an input, but plugging the color into a diffuse shader and baking a diffuse color pass makes no difference.

blend file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3dlcvt1a8vj6xc/?dl=1

[Kolloom]

Debugging this took way longer than i expected. I thought this is a bug and tried to replicate your setup and was about to file a bug report. I checked the mesh normal as a last resort and indeed! You have inverted normal.