Michael wrote:

> Baked my first cake this evening! I got both the cake and the frosting
> recipe from the back of the Hershey's cocoa container, something like
> the "Perfectly Chocolate" chocolate cake. I have used the frosting
> recipe many times before for brownies, but this time I thinned it a bit
> and used the beater on it. It's a two-layer affair baked in 9" pans.
> Not much problem getting them out of the pan, but I didn't have a wire
> rack to cool them on. I might have got a little overanxious and iced
> it before it was totally cool. I put it in the frig to hopefully avoid
> a meltdown.
>
> Uh... didn't really have anything to say except that. I was excited
> about my first cake and wanted to share the experience.

Congratulations. They aren't so hard to make are they. If you are going to
make any more cakes you really should get some racks. They aren't very
expensive and don't need much storage room, but they are important because
they allow the cake to cool down without getting soggy. You really do need
to let cakes cool off before icing them. Sometimes it's hard to wait when
you are trying something new and you want to finish the preparation and dig
in.