I was making a cake for a church pot luck that I wanted to decorate to match the Cowboy theme. I used a chocolate cake recipe similar to what you can find on the back of the Hershey's cocoa powder can. I'm at an elevation of 4790'. Using a 9x13 aluminum can pan, filled half way, the batter overflowed the pan. I cleaned up as much as I could, but kept baking, wanting to try to salvage it, while smoke poured from my oven. I had to remove the batteries from my blaring smoke detectors! Finally, once the cake was finished, and I leveled it, I tasted a bit of the scraps, and it was horrible! Tasted very smoky! And not in a good way! I had to toss out that cake and bake another one the next day. My house smelled like smoke for a week, despite keeping windows and door open to air it out. I have since found a chocolate cake recipe that works well at my elevation.

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