Lemonade

 

I know you're a bit worried about how I dropped the lemon snacking cake while trying to get it out of the oven and there are extenuating circumstances having to do with the pan. Needing a 9 inch square pan for months, I scooped up one that wasn't quite right; it had a removable bottom.

I did not need or want a removable bottom, but, wanting a 9 inch pan, I puchased it anyway.  Cake batter does ooze out the bottom. I put it on a cookie sheet and made do. When choosing a snack for last day of class, Lemon Snacking Cake fit the bill and called for a 9 inch square pan, which, as I have discussed, was in the cupboard. 

The recipe instructed me to grease the pan, line with parchment paper, grease the parchment paper and leave a couple inches overhanging, presumably to lift the cake out after baking. Here is where I might have done things differently; having a removable bottom - even though it leaks - precludes needing parchment paper. I lined the pan. When the cake sprung back when pressed and a skewer came clean from poking the cake, time to remove the pan from the oven.  With two mitts, I grabbed the sides of the pan and lifted. As I began to bring the cake toward me, one thumb pinched the parchment paper and slid up, bringing the cake up with it and overbalancing the pan, flipping the cake up with the bottom levering it out of the pan onto the floor of the oven on its top. I was left holding the outside of my 9 inch square pan, which I threw into the oven in a sudden rage.

And that's how I brought deconsructed cake to the last day of class.