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[phosfate]

Why do I use the bundt pan? I know the bundt pan doesn't work. But I used the bundt pan anyway. It didn't work. So I have no cake for Mary when she comes back to work tomorrow after half a year out getting chemolasered. Nor can I walk over to the 24-hour grocery to get something because IT WON'T STOP STORMING.

On the bright side, I don't have to figure out how to carry a cake on the bus. And I have failcake to eat.

Mmm...failcake.



Also, I really hope somebody remembered to tell Mary we're in a completely different building now.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

What happens when you use the bundt pan?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

The cake, she no come out. Even if you leave the pan upside-down overnight. Eventually, hacking is involved. Poor bastard goes all MacArthur Park.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

D: Otoh, if you don't tell Mary you moved, you can has cakes moar.

And you may beat me up for saying so, but I think you are a sweetheart for making your co-worker a cake for her 1st day back to work. ::sweet sweet::

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Well, everybody's making something, so it's more like peer pressure than genuine niceness.

Well, if you're looking for suburban

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Maybe a dump cake would work in the bundt pan - I had to look it up, I've never done it with the pineapple in there but otherwise this sounds kinda like what I've done in the past:

INGREDIENTS
1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
1 (15 ounce) can crushed pineapple
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
8 ounces chopped walnuts
1/2 cup butter

DIRECTIONS
In a 9x13 inch pan mix cherries and pineapple. Sprinkle dry cake mix over pineapple, and cherry mixture stir until just combined. Then sprinkle walnuts over top. Drizzle top with melted butter or margarine.
Bake in a 350 degree F (175 degree C) oven for 35 or 40 minutes or until golden brown.

Then you just leave it in the pan, scoop it out and top with whipped cream or ice cream or something.

Re: Well, if you're looking for suburban

[finabair.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm getting really good at clicking the wrong instance of 'reply' on a page.

Re: Well, if you're looking for suburban

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing Lipton Soup Mix in that ingredients list, Missey.

Re: Well, if you're looking for suburban

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Isn't Lipton Soup Mix one of the secret ingredients in butter?

Re: Well, if you're looking for suburban

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

No. It's one of the secret ingredients in I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.

Barefisted cooking

[dorothy1901]

To make the cake come out: Before you pour in the batter, wash your hands. Grab a stick of butter, cut off a chunk, and then (using your bare hands) smear it all over the inside of the bundt pan. If you've got a fluted bundt pan, then use your fingers to make sure the butter goes into all the little crevices.

You have to grease the pan well, using lots of butter. In my experience, the best way to grease something is to grab the butter and use it like a cross between a big yellow crayon and finger paint.

Afterwards, wash your hands again.

Re: Barefisted cooking

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

o_.

O_O

Oh HELL no!

Re: Barefisted cooking

[dorothy1901]

The cake will come out. In one piece, even.

You don't like butter?

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

The bundt pan lies. It is a fluted toroid of deceit, a tubular tub of untruth, a lying liar-pan of... lyingness.

(You can always make failcake into trifle, which delights in being transported via tupperware. Or, y'know. Just eat it.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

The second thing. What is trifle? If it doesn't come out of a box or involve Lipton soup mix in some way, it offends my white suburban sensibilities.

Also none of my Tupperware has lids.

[ahli.livejournal.com]

WAHT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifle

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Hm.

I like the sound of "nucleation." We could get some sort of Mutually Assured Dessert thing going...

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Trifle = failcake + (fruit and/or pudding) + whipped cream + a healthy dollop of "I totally meant to do that".

Not having lids makes Tupperware just... bowls, isn't it?

We have lots of Washed-and-Repurposed-Food-Packaging brand Tupperware. So I just chuck them when they lose their lids.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I could make...half a dozen mini-trifles.

Actually I've frosted the cake, so no, I can't.

[strigine.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for giggling at this.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You're a terrible human being.

_*snerk*

[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

Did, uh, you leave the cake out in the rain?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I really need to find out if Betty Crocker makes sweet green icing.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I'm just impressed that you actually attempted to bake something...'cause I wasn under the impression that, ya know, kitchen stuff wasn't your thing. That baking involved a phone call and a pick-up.

Me, I'm not brave enough to share my cooking with anyone. At least not anyone I want to see again....

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Nah, I can do elementary cooking and baking. It's where cookies come from.

I will, however, employ any available means to avoid doing so. YOU CAN'T TELL ME HONEY BUNCHES OF OATS ISN'T A GOOD DINNER!

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

The bundt pan is very sorry, it's not you, it's all that inner rage it experiences at being oddly-shaped. It wanted to be a jello-mold, you see.

You are made of awesome to even attempt such a thing for your co-worker -- peer pressure or not -- and I am so adding "trifle" to my list of culinary oopsie-fixes. *high fives Dr_Tectonic across the comments* (and Ahli for the wiki linky goodness! ^5 x2)

Oh, and sorry about the storm. I guess I was wishing for rain too hard. I never had a very good sense of direction, y'know.

*sends e-hugs for all-around support*

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

It is true, the only Bundt pans that actually work are ones coated with Teflon, and those only when they're all nice and new. *sigh*