We Interrupt This (Ill-Fated) Blogging Break To Bring You A Holiday Baking Disaster

by BooMama on 24 December 2007

in Cooking

Hey. You know that part of the recipe? Where they tell you to make sure you have a 12-cup Bundt pan?

Well they are not kidding.

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You don’t even want to know how long it took me to clean up this mess.

Or how many times the lyrics to “MacArthur Park” ran through my head.

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{ 75 comments }

Jena December 24, 2007 at 9:46 am

WOW !! What a mess.. Sorry

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beckie December 24, 2007 at 10:01 am

Other than the run-over cake, that has to be the cleanest inside of an oven I have ever seen. Too bad about the mess. I hope the rest of the cake tastes good. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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zoom December 24, 2007 at 10:03 am

OH.
Did you have to go back to the store? I hate that. To have to go back is the ultimate torture.

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Mari-Nanci December 24, 2007 at 10:05 am

Oh giggles! Goes to show ~ you’re human. Like the rest of us.

I LUV it that you show a pic of a disaster! Really LUV it. You are sooooo cool to do so.

Happy Christmas,
Mari-Nanci

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Jenn December 24, 2007 at 10:13 am

Bahahahaha! I laugh because tomorrow I am making my first christmas dinner for the family ( I some how got out of it for the first 6 years of marriage :) and I am sure to have equal disasters in the oven or around the oven area.

Merry Christmas BooMama!

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Scott December 24, 2007 at 10:21 am

Darn those cheap 11.5-cup Bundt pans!

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chocolatechic December 24, 2007 at 10:23 am

I am so very sorry. Maybe you will get a 12 cup bunt pan for Christmas…giggle.

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Lora Lynn December 24, 2007 at 10:36 am

My deepest baking sympathies. Borrow some of Big Mama’s bourbon and you’ll feel better.

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Mamma D December 24, 2007 at 10:40 am

LOL!! I bet if Rihanna had lent Donna Summer an umbrella, things would have turned out much better!!

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Dana December 24, 2007 at 10:53 am

Oh my gosh, that is just the laugh I need. So sorry for you though….but I bet it still tasted good (the part stillIN the pan, not on the bottom of the oven) –

Hope you have a Merry Christmas!!!!

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Need A Nap2 December 24, 2007 at 10:53 am

Glad to know you have baking disasters too!! I used 2 packages of cookie dough on my pizza stone thinking that’s what I had used the last time to make a cookie cake – um no it was only 1 package!! :)

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jen December 24, 2007 at 10:53 am

Bless your heart. Merry Christmas Boo Mama….enjoy your day.

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Tee December 24, 2007 at 10:56 am

Oh.my.gosh! I have done the same thing with my strawberry pound cake. Soooo, I put in big RED letters on the recipe, “BAKE IN LARGE TUBE PAN”. I’ve been there and have the tee shirt. LOL!

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Patty December 24, 2007 at 11:01 am

Oh my goodness! I feel for you. Is the the pumpkin/rum cake? I think you should try again, because this recipe is so good it could make you slap yo momma needs to me eaten on Christmas day!

P.s. I would never smack my momma. :o)

Merry Christmas!

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kelli December 24, 2007 at 11:11 am

Oh LOOK LINUS! It’s the GREAT PUMPKIN!!!!!!

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Tara December 24, 2007 at 11:31 am

I had a very similar unfortunate incident with a loaf of banana bread on Thanksgiving this year! I am going to make that cake someday, and I will have learned a valuable lesson from you! Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!

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Frazzmom December 24, 2007 at 11:47 am

Oh- and your oven was so clean too! So sorry, glad to hear someone else has had a Christmas incident- ours involved a plumber and the kitchen sink over the weekend…

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Lesley December 24, 2007 at 11:59 am

I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one that has happened to. I never bought a larger bundt pan, though. I’ve just never made that cake again. That’ll show ‘em.

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Amber December 24, 2007 at 12:04 pm

sorry about your christmas eve baking disaster! our day included a broken loveseat arm and then later a whole dumped plate of food on the same loveseat. ah, happy holidays all around! we just laugh and move on.

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Sabrena N December 24, 2007 at 12:08 pm

okay silly…you are not supposed to use MacArthur Park as a recipe guide! Uh because that part about cake in the rain is soooo not good for baking, or eating!

I bet it was a good cake…did you bake it or just say to yourself it’s God’s way of telling you to stop(which is totally what I would’ve done)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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Laura December 24, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Welcome to my world!!!!

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Stephanie December 24, 2007 at 12:33 pm

Oh my gosh – I did that once with banana bread. It is a mess =( Hope your Christmas baking improves from here…. Merry Christmas!

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Melissa December 24, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Oh No! I am sorry you had to deal with such a mess! But it can only get better from here, right?

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Traci December 24, 2007 at 12:52 pm

It happened to me too!!! My pumpkin pie slipped out of my hands as I was putting it in the oven… pumpkin ALL OVER THE BOTTOM OF THE HOT OVEN! I almost cried… then I couldn’t stop laughing. Merry Christmas!!!

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Connie December 24, 2007 at 1:00 pm

oh my, oh my…I love that you stopped to take a picture of it so you could share it with all of us. Merry Christmas!

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Holly Smith December 24, 2007 at 1:47 pm

Awwww! So Sorry! Kafoffel (sp?)…and sadness.

I found out that my friend’s recipe for “Mama Jean’s 5 flavor cake with 8 eggs” does NOT do well in Colorado (high altitude). It spilled over, like yours, and caught fire in the oven, unlike yours. I threw away the BAD-not-a-blessing bundt pan. Because, for Heaven’s sake, if I have to clean the oven, I am NOT cleaning the pan out, too. So I can partake in your sadness with understanding!
Merry Christmas! May all your other foods be obedient!!
Holly

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Indiana Keetha December 24, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Sorry you had this mess to deal with NOW. Once when we were first married, hubby dear decided to surprise me with a cake – - – only he didn’t pay any attention to the part in the recipe about how to adjust it if using self-rising flour, which he was using – - – - we had a SIMILAR situation in our oven when I returned home.

Merry Christmas.

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Holly Smith December 24, 2007 at 1:49 pm

OH! And all the Baptists are saying it was that 1/4 cup of dark rum…Hee hee hee!

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dcrmom December 24, 2007 at 2:19 pm

GACK!!!!!!!!!! No fun. Merry Christmas, anyway! :-)

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Linda Sue December 24, 2007 at 2:47 pm

Instructions – we don’t need no stinkin’ instructions! We bake Commando style – no rules and more butter! Sorry about the mess – something about holiday cooking always goes awry – only cool thing is in years to come it is “do you remember the year you had that liquored up cake spill all over the oven?” Merry Christmas – all the non denominational Protestants are saying “what a woman! baking with alcohol instead of drinking it!”

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Amy @ By His Grace December 24, 2007 at 3:17 pm

Wow!!!!! Sorry about the mess…I hope the holidays are Merry anyway!

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Bailey's Leaf December 24, 2007 at 3:31 pm

Oh, I’m so sorry. I had that happen last year with ice cream cone cupcakes for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. My sister said, “Fill ‘em to the top! Then, they’ll be nice and fluffy!” Um, that did not happen. They cooked over and looked like a volcanic eruption happened in my oven. I had to go to Giant Eagle at 11 at night to buy the things that I needed– again.

Ugh.

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Melanie December 24, 2007 at 4:56 pm

I’m sorry,BooMama… but your cup overfloweth. Some comments just can’t go unsaid. ;>)

We want to know which cleaner you used to get it all off.

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Carol December 24, 2007 at 6:33 pm

Well, the recipe sounds good anyway! Your pic reminded me of the time that I put a cake in a rectangle tupperware cake holder in the oven to get it off the counter. I forgot about it and the next day when I went to pre-heat the oven for dinner, we had a mix of melted plastic and cake ooozing through the racks to the bottom of my oven. It was so bad that I had to throw the whole rack away because it was so imbedded with tupperware. I took the trash out after dark, so no one could see it, I was so embarrassed.
Merry Christmas!

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Dnksmommy (Lorrie) December 24, 2007 at 8:15 pm

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, Merry Christmas anyway Boo mama!!!!!

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Lisa December 24, 2007 at 10:14 pm

oooohhhh, yuck! Something inside of me panicked when I saw that picture. I hate that….and like you had time for that today!!!! If you are like me you had a wonderful little plan, I’ll bake this and then this and then I’ll do such and such, and I’m sure “clean the oven” was NOWHERE on that list!! Hope it didn’t set you too far behind.

Merry Christmas!

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Darlene December 24, 2007 at 10:32 pm

That kinda reminds me of the time my husband baked a pie from scratch, an apple pie–deep dish. He took it out of the oven, sat it on the stove and “BOOM” it exploded everywhere! I guess there must have been a small crack in the glass somewhere. Any way you cut it, it was a mess!

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Miz Booshay December 24, 2007 at 11:10 pm

Oh! I am so sorry for your cake mistake :o(

It will get better from here on out.

Merry Christmas!

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A Place For Ministry Mives/A Place For Me December 24, 2007 at 11:28 pm

I new you couldn’t break from us. Merry Christmas!

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Adrienne December 25, 2007 at 7:09 am

Ouch! Go to Solutions.com and order yourself one of those mats that fits on the bottom of the oven under the burner, and catches all those nasty messes!

I did the same thing with my son’s birthday cake last year. The recipe said to use three cake pans, and well, I didn’t read that part so I only used two pans. Similar results to yours :o(

Merry Christmas
Adrienne

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Tracey/Real Estate Girl December 25, 2007 at 7:57 am

Oh no! It makes for good blogging, though!

Merry Christmas!

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kelli in the mirror December 25, 2007 at 10:20 am

Yay! I’m not the only one who did this! Except I didn’t take pictures. Mine was a chocolate truffle cobbler, and it was just about that messy.

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connorcolesmom December 25, 2007 at 2:45 pm

I am not laughing at you but I am laughing!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Kim

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Fabthemayor December 25, 2007 at 3:06 pm

You kill me! My oven is dirtier than that and I haven’t even had a cake explosion in it : )

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Leslie (snaphappyinkymomma) December 25, 2007 at 3:31 pm

Someone left a cake out . . . in the rain . . .

And, I don’t think that I can take it . . .

‘Cause it took so long to bake it . . .

And I’ll never have — that recipe — again!

Oh, no!

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Janie December 25, 2007 at 10:19 pm

Oh no- what a bummer! It STILL looks yummy!!
Merry Christmas!
Xo!
Js

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Allison December 25, 2007 at 11:03 pm

Oh NOOO. Oven cleaning probably wasn’t on your list of fun things to do at Christmas! Does it feel better knowing it put a smile on our faces? Not smiling AT you, of course. :)

My sister made a mess like that with pumpkin pie once, and I still think of her when I bake them (she used a non-stick pie plate, and when she was taking it out of the oven, it slipped right out and onto the hot element).

Merry Christmas!

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Lisa @ The Preacher's Wife December 26, 2007 at 12:28 am

i just think it’s awesome you are actually baking…my cooking has suffered this season…

good luck cleaning that yuck up! ;)

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Mary C December 26, 2007 at 8:11 am

This EXACT thing happened to me at Thanksgiving! I do alot of baking, but I had never measured my bundt pan before. Who knew they were serious about the size? :)

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Roxanne December 26, 2007 at 8:20 am

Yes, yes, yes. . .but how did it TASTE????

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