Good morning everyone. Got a question that I'm hoping someone can answer. I just made a cake where I used melted butter and milk, etc. It was the Bride's cake from the Cake Doctor's book. I greased the pans with shortening and floured as usual. I also used the baking strips. It baked beautifully. I let it sit for about 10 minutes just as usual and then turned it out onto a cooling rack. The cake came out clean on the bottom but stuck on the sides I've never had this happen before and can't figure out why it did. This is the first time I've used butter in a cake mix instead of oil. Could this have anything to do with it? The inside of the cake looks great, texture is perfect. It just doesn't make any sense. Too much of the cake came off in the pan so I don't think I can even fix it with the frosting. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

I use only Baker's Joy. No Crisco, no flour, no parchment paper in the bottom. I have NEVER had a cake to stick with Baker's Joy. Try it.

I think it is the butter. I usually run a knife around the edge to un-stick if I think it will be a problem.

Hey Jenn. Actually, I did run a knife around the sides just as I usually do and I didn't even notice that it was sticking. The knife went around just fine. But yet when I turned it out, some of the cake decided to stay behind Hmmm, how disappointing. This was going to be the bottom cake on the three tier you've given me help with. So, you think it's a possibility it could be the butter? That's the only thing different in this cake from the others I've made. So, I'm thinking the same thing. But how can I still use butter and keep it from sticking??? Alrighty, gotta go run out to the grocery store. Need more cake mix, butter and milk. I'm not going to let this defeat me.... Thanks again!!

Ok, after doing some serious investigation I think I may have figured out what happened. I think I may have screwed up the sides of the cake myself when I ran the knife around the sides of the pan prior to turning the cake out I really do. I realized that not all that much of the cake actually stuck to the pan but what happened was it just fell apart all around the sides as it was coming out of the pan. So, I'm thinking that when I ran the knife around the sides, I may have had the knife at an angle and just didn't realize it. I think I cut the sides off myself I made some cupcakes out of the same batter and did everything else the same and they just slid right on out. So, I'm feeling pretty stupid right about now. Geeeez, here I was all concerned that I wouldn't be able to get the tiers just right and I can't even seem to keep the cake itself in one piece Oh well, live and learn, I guess. Gotta get back on that horse, right??? Thanks again everyone. You guys are the BEST!!