I just have to vent! I have a 3rd cake in the oven. I only needed to bake one, but they kept getting stuck in the pan. One just cracked when I turned it over, the second I must have filled the pan too much and it rose too high and got stuck...so I am baking this stupid cake the third time! ARRRGGG! I thought I had at least gotten to the point where I could at least bake the cake. My last cake went so well, I guess I was due for some frustration. I will only get $15 (before costs) for this cake so now that I have baked it 3 times, I will make about 9 cents an hour. Sorry for the rant, I feel better now. I hope this cake will come out of the pan!!!

Ugh so sorry! I hate those type of days. What are you using for your pan spray? I always use equal parts of flour, crisco, and oil. Comes out every time great unless you let the cake cool longer than 10 minutes.

JuLinda

Oh no! Why does those sort of things happen only when it's a cake for sale and not when it's just for us to eat alone and we don't care what they look like?

Here is a great tip to make sure your cakes never stick again. Line the bottom with waxed paper. Then when you are ready to take the cake out of the pan you just run a knife around the edge to loosen it up and the cake will come right out. Never fails. Works like a charm. No more having to grease your pans first and hoping they get covered perfect.

Good luck with the 3rd cake.

Joanne

merissa, I feel for you!!! My day went very similar. Fortunately, the cake I was baking (if you can call it that) was just for practice.

I want to try a whimsical cake. I baked one cake yesterday and another this morning. I mixed the 3rd cake, which was a mix and after I put it in the oven, I realized I never added the pudding mix. Oh well. I checked on it almost an hour later and it is no where near done. Checked again a little later, still no progress. It took me three times before I realized that the oven wasn't even on!!! I had turned it off after cake #2. The funny part is, turning off the oven has been an issue. We just moved in and the oven/stove is very different from my old one. I keep forgetting to turn the stove off. And of course, my husband has to be the one that notices first. Now, this time I turn it off when I actually need it on?!?!

Baker's Joy is all I can say

Well fortunately the 3rd one came out okay. I usually dont have any problems, but I was using some pans that I had never used and I overfilled it the second time around and it got stuck all around the edge. I am not sure what happened on the first cake, (also a pan I hadnt used, a square) and the corner broke off. But as long as I have no other problems, hopefully I will be good to go. Still lots to do...a potential for more problems...

I have a soothing mantra for situations like this...Parchment paper..

opppss... just to let you know though...o am sure you are not alone. i have had days like that too. something just has to go wrong. you will have that once in a while.

I have a better soothing mantra Lots of Rum!! and not for the cake!! Cheffie