Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> Tomorrow morning I will deliver my baked entries to the Nice Ladies at
> the Minnesota State Fair fairgrounds.
>
> In theory, I will enter a chocolate Bundt� cake, an apple pie, a mixed
> berry pie, girl brownies, white bread, boy brownies, PB cookies, CC
> cookies, and fruit muffins.
>
> I started with the chocolate cake first. It's an interesting recipe
> (one year it placed second or third or something) and I decided to
> enter it again. I mixed the batter and poured it carefully into my
> greased and floured Bundt� pan. Oven on, pan in, at about 20 minutes
> it had risen to the top of the pan. I did not open the oven. At
> about 24 minutes I looked again and it had fallen and was sort of
> boiling. At 35 minutes I opened the oven to let the smoke out and to
> empty the damned pan (with stuck on baked chocolate batter) and put
> the remover stuff on it to soak. I'm not wanting to scratch this
> pan, OK?
>
> As I re-read the recipe and re-played the making, I realized I likely
> would not have had this problem if I had put the flour in the batter.
> And, no, I didn't miss it because it is a thin batter when it goes
> into the pan.

LOLOL oh sorry Barb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



> A word to the wise.
>
> Now, back to kneading the bread dough and making pie dough.
>
> Light a bonfire.
>
> It's cold and raining. I love it!