it never hurts to ask

A few months ago I bought myself a new Wilton angel food cake pan.

I was actually quite nervous about using it because

when I baked a cake in my teflon pan in Germany

the cake would come out beautifully

but once inverted, it would fall right out of the pan.

Not a good way to have a nice fluffy cake!

Anyway, it was time to bake the August birthday cake

and I thought I would inaugurate my new pan.

After about 20 minutes in the oven 

I started to smell something very uncake-like.

There was batter dripping out of the bottom of the pan

 and baking onto the oven.

Great.

I finished baking the cake, took it out, inverted it

and.....

it didn't fall out.

It was absolutely perfect.

And it was probably the best poppyseed chiffon cake I have ever baked.

And that's saying a lot!

Oh ya.

Anyway, I started thinking about that leaky pan...

I thought I would write to Wilton and see what they would say.

So, I did and today the email came back

saying they were sorry about my leaky pan and would I please send them my

shipping address so they could replace the pan for me!

Yes, once again,

it never hurts to ask!!