The cake was a lie.

[mme_hardy]

Tumblr post with pictures.

That pan is getting retired. Amazingly badly designed.

Comments

[muccamukk]

You could use it to set horrifying things in aspic! Give it another chance :D

[genarti]

Oh dear.

[moetushie]

Oh no!!!

I've always thought fancy bundt-cake cans were mostly decorative anyway. (I have one that's castle-y shaped, but it works pretty well.)

[mme_hardy]

I have the cathedral-y one, and it works beautifully. It's this particular shape that is a disaster. When I was cleaning it, I had to use a chopstick to push the soggy bits of stuck cake out.

[cofax7]

Oh, dear!

[mme_hardy]

We did have it for dessert, and it was very tasty. My husband pointed out that most Bundt cakes are heavy poundcakes, and unmold more easily than this fairly light drizzle cake.

[howlgirl.livejournal.com]

I have a similar pan, lots of butter and flour are required.

[sabotabby]

Aww, cake tragedy.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

I can see why that caused problems.

[madrobins]

I have a silicon swirl-shaped pan, which, if lavishly sprayed with cooking spray and equally lavishly dusted with flour, works pretty well; the silicon more or less peels off the edges like peeling off a stocking. More or less.

I was given one of those lovely heavy cast-metal castle pans with the crenellations and arches, and could never get even a modestly successful cake out of it. A humbling experience.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I think my husband's right and part of the trick is that I always made my mother's pound cake in my ornamental pans, and it's heavy and tight-grained.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Do you ever use Baker's Magic, or do you find that Pam + a shake of flour is usually the best choice?

[madrobins]

I've never used Baker's Magic--doesn't mean I mightn't, just that I've never had any to use.