So, today is The Husband’s birthday and as tradition dictates in our family, the birthday guy or gal gets to choose the dinner and the cake, and I always make the cake at home. This year he has requested a vanilla cake with fresh strawberry sauce and whipped cream.

I have been making cakes in a bundt pan lately (mostly because I love the way it is so easy to cut off slices!) and it seems every time I go to invert the cake from the pan, half of the cake is still stuck to the bottom of the pan! I can usually peel out the remainder of the cake and sort of patch it all back together with icing, but I would love to be able to just flip the cake out and have it look nice without 2 inches of icing glopped on it.

I have tried baking it plain in the pan (it claims to be non-stick!). I have tried spraying generously with butter-flavored spray. And today I am trying greasing the whole pan with softened butter and then dusting with flour. If this cake sticks and breaks today I’m gonna be all kinds of irritated.

So, tell me……what are your tips for a successful bundt pan release?  What am I doing wrong? (I have this Wilton ‘Perfect Results’ Nonstick Fluted Tube Pan – perfect results my eye!)

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