Cake 3: Caketastrophe

This week I wanted to revisit a simple vanilla cake so I looked to Martha Stewart's Versatile Vanilla Cake. Everything was going great, it was looking light and fluffy, had an incredible aroma, the color was terrific and then the bakers worst nightmare came true... when I checked the cake at 32 minutes my oven flipped out! It wasn't quite done so I set the timer for four more minutes... 20 minutes later the oven was cooling off, I was smelling gas, and the cake still wasn't done. Needless to say, we aren't using the oven until the gas company can come out to take a look.

While the cake was still edible, there was some definite sink-age:

I figured I should just go ahead and finish the thing to get some more practice and since I had a ton of caramel left over from the last cake, and because it was so freaking fantastic, I decided to use it again this week. Yum, look at all that caramely goodness!

Sadly, there was some leakage. Still, it's delicious looking leakage.

Anyone who knows me knows I HATE spiders, despise them. Yes, I know, they are an essential part of our ecosystem... but why oh why do they have to be so horribly creepy! They freak me out to no end! My sweet little brother got me a shirt that reads "Lets take a moment to be thankful that spiders don't fly" for my birthday. The thing has a picture of a flying spider. I put it on immediately so I wouldn't have to look at it. Anyway, back to cake. Even though I hate the little buggers I love Halloween. And if there is a place in this universe for spiders it's along side the other creepy, crawly, terrifyingly terrific apparitions that make Halloween so damn awesome. So, I made a spider cake.

And look how lovely it still looked inside despite being under done:

Tasted pretty great too.

Thanks for reading, I'm off to put more spiderwebs in the bushes.