Improvisation

If you look close at the picture, you will see a small metal piece attached to the edge of the pan. (It is on the right hand side of the picture just above my Kitchen Aid mixer.) There are three of these and they are supposed to support the cake as it is cooing upside down. But, because the cake was so tall...well, you see my problem. Normally, you would put the long neck of a glass bottle through the center hole and the pan would hang upside down while it is cooling. I didn't have the above described bottle, so I had to improvise.

This is what I came up with. I had 2 wire hangers I bent and attached the hook end to the inside hole of the pan. I hung this on the doorway, off to the side, between my kitchen and living room. I was the only one home (my husband was out of town), so there shouldn't be any reason why this couldn't cool here for several hours.

For those of you that are nervious the cake will "fall" out of the pan...I knew this wasn't possible. You don't grease this pan, so the egg whites have a surface to climb up and rise to their fullest. You have to cut the cake out of the pan when it is cool, so I knew it was good and stuck.