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.
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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Hoooooooly moley.
DOH!
Was the whole cake scrapped then?
Just in case I haven’t commented before, I just LOVE your blogsite!!!
I am “fairly” new to the blog world (as of Sept) and am hopelessley addicted!
You keep me smiling–and, also being a Baptist, am waiting also on the “others” to purchase necessary cooking spirits! Haha
Have a Happy & Blessed New Year!
I am with you in the disaster dept. Check it out!
http://headlessfamily5.blogspot.com/2007/12/norman-rockwell-it-wasnt.html
Let us give thanks that this calamity did not occur Christmas Day with company present.. Otherwise there would have been major meltdown from the cook, like what this author experienced personally, and I will spare you details of how ugly that can get.
I keep coming back to look at this picture… and no, it doesn’t look perfect, yes something seems to have gone wrong,
sorta, kinda…
But a disaster?
Really, a DISASTER?
No
It would have been a disaster if the oven had exploded…
well, maybe.
just maybe
or maybe not
It would have been a disaster if the kitchen had exploded…
well, again,
maybe…
It would have been A REAL disaster if the cake hadn’t been edible anymore… yes, THAT would have been a disaster,
but this cake looks quite edible,
it even looks good
but maybe saying that makes me crazy
if that’s the case: this cake looks horrible
Oh who am I kidding? It looks good (the part still in the pan) and I would have eaten it. I would have loved it.
OH! I hope you had lots of chocolate afterwards! It’s only fair.
Sue
PS. I hope you don’t mind that I added you to my blogroll. Happy New Year!!
Okay you just made me feel so much better! My turkey never thawed so we had to have Pork tenderloin with canned turkey gravy. That’s okay my kids think it is all chicken anyhow. Looks like your cake would have been a perfect side disaster— I mean side dish.
Smiles and Merry Merry!
Lysa
What a hoot …. I’m sorry …. I laughed so hard! I feel for you but knowing you (or knowing what I know about you because of how you write your blog) I’m sure you made the best of a bad situation. And I wasn’t laughing at the cake mess … just your delightful way of sharing the cake mess! You Rock!
Bless your heart!! What a mess!! But seriously, how long DID it take??
Oh My! I’m glad I’m not the only one this stuff happens to. LOL ;)
Oh dear.
Oh goodness. I hope you ate something with cream cheese in it after that. It’s the only cure-all that I can think of for a disaster of such proportions.
It had to happen some time…Too bad it was on Christmas Eve. :( Welcome to my world.
Blessings.
Your ‘dirty’ oven is far cleaner than mine. You have just inspired me to clean it…well, push that little latch to the self-clean cycle. Whew, I’ll need a nap after that.
I don’t know what I love more… the fact that you admitted to the whole blogosphere that this happened, or the fact that you photographed it.
I am not known for my culinary skill, and let me just confess here and now that if I took a photo of every time something like this happened to me, there wouldn’t be enough room in all the photo albums in the world. Oh, and just FYI: lemon pie is REALLY hard to clean up off the oven door. Especially if you have a brief mental lapse and forget to use potholders when removing it from the oven and subsequently drop the hot pan. Not that I’ve ever done that, though. I just read about it somewhere. (HA!)
at which point I would have asked Santa for a new oven!
OOOOHH NOOOOOOO! I’m glad it wasn’t me having to clean that up! Bless your heart.
It looks good. . .What is it?
awww…looks like me on Thanksgiving when I dumped out my entire pan of homemade stuffing I was just putting in to bake!!!
thank the Lord for self-cleaning ovens although at my house you have to set it and leave or you could die from the fumes! xoxo
Ugh, that was a mess! I hate when things like that happen.
Oh, that would stink! But it is funny blog fodder for us! Who, but a true blogger, would see that and think “I better grab my camera!” instead of “Oh, man, that is gonna take forever to clean up!”
sister, I’ve been there. So sorry! My parents came to town just a few short days after I gave birth to my first baby. In my pain-medicated, sleepless, lactating stupor I asked/begged my mother to make some zucchini bread. It ended up exactly like your bundt. At least is was edible. Barely. But I was fiendishly hungry from all the sleeplessness and breast feeding. I might have been dirt and I’d still have eaten it! Hope you managed to enjoy yours!
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