The good, the bad, and the sho' nuff ugly!

Well, I'm the kinda gal that likes to get the bad stuff over with, so I will start this post off with the "Bad" and then progress to the "sho' nuff ugly" before I get to the "good".

Several months ago, I showed y'all the Best Cake recipe EVER. It's a method of making the cake with the frosting inside the cake. I've made this cake many, many times with lots of success.

(Other than it sticking to the pan and making a HUGE mess when trying to get it out.)

Yesterday, the oven was already heated up, so I decided to whip up one of these cakes before I headed out to pick up Jameson from school.

When I went to the pantry, I was out of the normal caramel/pecan/coconut frosting that I normally use, so I just decided to try a completely different cake....devil's food with cream cheese frosting.

I mixed it up, exactly the way I've done hundreds of times before, poured it into the cake pan, and put it in to bake.

About 45 minutes later, I started smelling something that reminded me of burnt marshmallows. I jumped up and looked in the oven and this is what I found....

(I put the pan under it before I ran to get my camera...lol)

There was smoke EVERYWHERE, cake mix all over the bottom of the oven and all over the racks too. The worst part was that I had to leave to go pick up Jameson and didn't have time to clean up the mess, or try to finish cooking the runny batter....it was still pourable at this point. So, I decided to just turn off the oven and close the door....hoping that the leftover heat would cook the batter, and the smoke wouldn't set off the smoke alarm.

When I got Jameson, I decided to take him to get a haircut and pick up a few groceries.....completely forgetting about the cake, other than the faint smell of burnt marshmallows on my clothes.

When we got home, things went from bad to sho' nuff ugly when I opened the oven and saw this:

The mix that was on the edges of the cake pan was as hard as a rock, as well as the mix that landed on the bottom of the oven and on the oven racks. I was able to break off most of the crusty mix on the racks and scrape off most of the mix from the bottom of the oven....but I can't even pry that stuff off the cake pan, nor can I get the mix out of the cake pan, so I've just put the pan and all under the cake plate....

That's where we get to the "good"....

It still tasted divine!