I’ve been baking a cake today… well, three cakes actually. It’s my Significant Other’s birthday tomorrow and he wanted a cake for work and I needed a cake for the evening (for when the family come over).
I baked a packet Vanilla Cake and a home made Banana Cake. The first supposedly being for work and the second for home. Fast forward to shaking Vanilla Cake out of pan. Didn’t happen. Stuck like glue. What is it with non-stick pans anyway? Is it a worldwide revolt against me? My muffin tins are exactly the same. Enter Significant Other into kitchen as, with one exceptionally wild shake, bits of cake erupt all over my kitchen bench. Grrrr.
Vanilla Cake #2 is currently in the oven. I decided to forestall the previous problem by using the Banana Cake tin… except for some reason the Banana Cake tin leaks at the bottom when cooking the wetter mixture of Vanilla Cake. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate cleaning the oven? This is why I write. That way I can pretend I’m at least controlling the environment I’m in, LOL!
interesting.
Comment by krissnp — 6 June, 2007 @ 1:53 am
No matter if the pan says no stick I still spray with Pam. I have one of those indoor grills that says no stick and every time I use it I still use Pam. If nothing else it makes clean up easier.
Comment by Christa — 6 June, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Cake in bits is something of a tradition in our family. In fact, such cakes–usually stuck together with toothpicks and served anyway–are called “Joyce cakes” after my Aunt Joyce who’s brought her toothpicked cakes to family gatherings for years… I proudly follow in this tradition… Or I did, till the fella turned out to be allergic to wheat and can’t eat cake any more. He gets birthday lemon meringue pie.
Comment by Gail — 6 June, 2007 @ 6:51 pm
Christa I wouldn’t have minded as much if I hadn’t sprayed the pan already. We don’t have “Pam” here in NZ but do have alternative cooking sprays. The SO maintains we should stick (excuse the pun) to the old ways and rub the pan with butter just like his mum used to do… considering his cholesterol levels, I’m going to put up with broken cake.
FWIW the third and final cake still stuck on the bottom of the tin but has been iced and ceremoniously taken to the SO’s workplace this morning.
Gail, I really like the sound of your Aunt Joyce. She sounds like the kind of woman who does what she needs to so she can do most of what she wants to. Re: your fella, can you not use rice flour or similar? I suppose the taste is never the same though.
I’m off to buy toothpicks (or maybe skewers might be better…
Comment by yvonnelindsay — 6 June, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
LOL at your baking misadventures. I cannot bake ANYTHING without it sticking to the pan. My cakes are usually spackled back together with a couple of tubs of icing. I’m big on heavy, colorful decorations on top of the icing
Jen
Comment by Jennifer Lewis — 7 June, 2007 @ 5:42 pm
Jen, your cakes sound wonderfully creative. Well, something must have gone right after all that because there wasn’t so much as a slice left after the birthday celebrations finished. Even the broken cake has all been eaten, so all in all it wasn’t such a disaster
Comment by yvonnelindsay — 7 June, 2007 @ 9:14 pm