Hi – I baked my cake, and noticed during the cooking that there was fat (butter) dripping down onto the bottom of the oven. When I took the cake out, the layers of paper were soaked in fat, and I scraped maybe 2 oz of butter off the inside of the oven. Have you heard of this happening before? Do you think it was the oven temperature? Or maybe I mis-weighed the butter & put in too much? Any thoughts please.
So, Carol, thanks for telling the world what a lazy cow I am. Yes, the oven needs a clean, but the fat was dripping from inside the cake tin which has got a loose bottom which you push up to get the cake out.