It smelled delicious as it was baking. Mmm, the aroma of butter and bananas. And burnt cake mix - it started leaking out of the bottom of my tube pan, which has a removable bottom. I knew I was going to have problems removing the cake from the pan, but I had a plan.
Once the cake was a lovely golden color, I removed it from the oven and left it to cool on a rack in the pan for ten minutes. When I went to remove the cake from the pan, boy was the pan hot. My initial instinct was to leave it in the pan longer, but I was tired and wanted to get things moving along.
I should have just trusted myself - impatience is rarely a good thing when it comes to baking. I used a small, thin knife to loosen the cake where it had leaked out. Most of the cake dropped nicely onto my plate, but one big chunk was still stuck to the pan.
Comments (1)
Ouch. That pretty much sucks if you were planning for guests to see a whole cake. But if you were going to cut it and serve it plated anyway, it would be fine. Not only that, you could eat all the yummy part that's stuck!
Posted by Amy | February 23, 2006 4:21 AM
Posted on February 23, 2006 04:21