Have you ever spent the day poring over recipes to find the perfect lemon ginger buttermilk Bundt cake? Then, you spend half the night making it: grating a chihuahua-sized hunk of ginger, using all your high-quality butter and organic eggs, squeezing lemons until your hands are raw and shriveled, then gleefully pouring the shining batter into your well-greased Bundt pan, baking it, letting it cool, excitement mounting as you tap your fingers on the counter, waiting for the precise moment in which you can gently invert the pan and present your cake in golden glory on the platter, imagining what wonderful words your friends will say when they see and taste your masterpiece…
Yes, and when you carefully tug at the pan to lift it from the cake, smugly anticipating that feeling, the smooth release of cake from pan, and you find yourself, incredibly, with