...nothing will! 
Last week several wonderful CC'ers gave me the recipe for Toba Garrett's Chocolate Fudge Cheesecake Cake. I was going to make it for a function last weekend, but it got cancelled due to horrible weather. I'd made the cheesecake, so I had tucked it in the freezer.
Anyway, I'm going to the ICE conference with a bunch of my co-workers tomorrow, so I thought I'd make this outrageous cake to surprise them (hauling it 300 miles...fun, fun). So, yesterday I come home from work and get out my mixer and ingredients to make the fudge cakes. I need my 10 inch pans. Where are my 10 inch pans???? Well, no luck....tore up the kitchen. I probably loaned them out. No biggie...head to the store..there's no such things are owning too many pans, is there? FIVE STORES later I find 10 inch round pans. Yikes!
I head home, barely avoided a 4 car collision. I catch my breath and start in on the cakes. Cream the butter, add sugar....knock 10 pound container of sugar on the floor, where most of the spilled sugar goes down the heating vent, which is stupidly right under my feet. Stop mixer, get vacuum. Clean up worst of the sugar. Woo hoo...there's enough sugar that didn't hit the floor to make the cake. Take another deep breath. Add dry ingredients, fetch eggs and buttermilk. Buttermilk container slides out from under arm and flips mid-air. Buttermilk lands on the dog, who, of course, is licking up sugar that I'd missed with the vacuum. Dog isn't happy about cold buttermilk and starts to shake then runs for the living room and dives under the couch. Stop mixer. Drag dog from under couch. Bath dog. Get out mop. Mop the trail dog left in living room, dining room and kitchen. Pull out pre-heated stove to get at the buttermilk that went under it. Praise heaven that I had bought 2 quarts of buttermilk!
Hubby arrives home....takes one look at my face and heads immediately for the bedroom. Coward! 
Back to the cake.....add buttermilk...turn on mixer, which immediately throws buttermilk into my face and straight down my shirt. At this point, who cares???
Cakes made it to oven, smelled heavenly. Managed to get them out of pans without breaking them. Miracles DO happen!!! Take shower to clean off buttermilk while drinking a very large glass of wine!!!
TOO FUNNY!!
Don't forget to let your friends know how indebted they are to you for bringing it along!
How funny! I feel so sorry for you. Do you know the whole time I was reading this, I thought you were going to say you found your pan in the freezer. I've done that before! 
Oh you poor, poor girl. What we go through to feed our addiction!!! (Cake decorating) So glad it all was ok in the end though!
I think sometimes I'm the only one having those kind of days.
I am glad that you can see the humor in it too. i would have been in tears by the time my hubby came home. thank you for the chuckle though!
That's what I thought...your pans were in the freezer....! Are they??
Nope...still haven't found the pans. I'm so bad about loaning things out and never getting them back!
Believe me, I had a few choice words to yell, but when the buttermilk hit my face and down my shirt all I could do was laugh. The hubby came carefully out of the bedroom to make sure I wasn't having a breakdown!
The cake is INCREDIBLE, btw.....I just hope it TASTES good enough to be worth all the trouble!!! *lol*
Oh....that sucker weighs 12 pounds!!!!!! 
I kept waiting for you to say that you found your cake pans in the pre-heated oven.
I'm glad that things turned out and I hope your friends appreciated all the trouble you went through to bake a nice surprise for them!!
~Annie
oh...as to my friends.....one of them was feeling down today, so I e-mailed them all the "cake saga" to give them a laugh. I immediately got back "Is that cake for us?? Please tell us it's for us! What kind is it? Are you bringing it to Chicago?"....*lol* I didn't tell them what the cake was though. 
I think I've spoiled them!
I made Snickers cookies to take for the drive....no trauma there though!
I am so sorry you had such a horrible time! It is always surprising how many things can go wrong once it starts.
When you get a chance, be sure to post what everyone thinks of your creation--because it sure sounds delightfully yummy! (And enjoy your trip!)
Adobe sure made that a pain in the behind....
Here you go....I hope it makes sense.
The cake is gorgeous, over 4 inches tall, weighs 12 pounds. It's got to be rich and totally decadant. The Chocolate Buttercream is the best I've ever tasted. I posted a different thread about it weeks ago.
wow, that sounds like the night i had. let's see. went to make buttercream dream, got everything out to make it, slopped two sticks of butter into the mixer bowl, turned that bad boy on medium and then threw in the crisco. crisco went flying all over the kitchen, on me, the tea kettle, walls, floor, (not the kids, whew). started adding in the 2 pounds of confectioners sugar, but forgot to put the mixer to low, confectioners sugar snow storm in the kitchen, sticks to the crisco i failed to clean up. this time, 17 month old twin boys are covered in snow and think it's funny. decide to get a sponge and damp paper towel (i am a paper towel addict) and clean up the crisco and the sugar (including the babies).
finally get the buttercream made and need to turn it black for a fbct. stick my hand in the black coloring (then subsequently, the yellow, brown and blue. i was making a ducky in a basket with easter eggs) and now i have what looks like a coloring book for a hand. how do you get gel color out from under your fingernail anyway?
finished my fbct and decided to sit down, on my butt and go ahead and indulge in some chocolate chip cookies and a few minutes of cc.... ahhhhh!
thankyouverymuch, i'll be here all night. don't forget to tip your waitress and try the pork!
*lol* who knows? Maybe I get my patience from being a mom for so many years...or from teaching computers to 3-11 year olds....or from dealing with 55 teachers every day whose EMERGENCIES turn out to be paper jams or loose cords!
I'm just hope I get a little GOOD karma from all of that mess!
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