Day 62 ~ after 4 hours of mixing and measuring and blending and baking....

I finally produced a decent-looking cake to take to decorating class tomorrow night! You know how it is sometimes...no matter how closely you follow a recipe, something happens and the thing explodes in the oven. OK - it doesn't really explode, but for some unknown reason, the 2 layers of cake batter turn into 2 mounds of slowly growing lava-like blobs that flow over the sides of the pans and produce an amazing amount of acrid smoke that hovers near the ceiling in the kitchen. I turned on the exhaust fan and composed myself...Steve said he was sorry (it wasn't his fault...was it?!) and I started all over again. I finally have a nice lemon pound bundt cake waiting to be frosted...and to be adorned with lemon yellow roses tomorrow.