Hello there, I just baked a 12x12x2 in cake. WASC. It fell the last 5 minutes of baking. This has happend with this pan before. I had 3 flower nails it it and still it sa nk. Any tips for the next layer???? PLEASE!!

oops sorry i didn't know it would put 3 pics. in.

You may be overfilling your pans. Measure out the batter if you need to...a 12" pan calls for 10 cups of batter.

Bake at a lower temperature i.e. 325 degrees for a longer period of time and don't open the oven door during the baking time.

Maybe tent a piece of aluminum foil over it and keep it there after you take it out of the oven.

Geez I hate that happened to you.

I don't use WASC, but I believe it's K8 that adds some baking powder to hers.....am I right Kate?

From the picture you posted it looks undercooked in the middle and the sides are above the sides of the pan which to me means there was too much batter and nowhere for it to go. Try filling below the 2/3 level for the next layer and see if that helps.

Other then that I don't know what else to think as I said I only made WASC a couple of times and didn't care for it....it's a heavy cake.

Generally my cakes don't sink while still in the oven--sometimes though--but yes I do this for big momma cakes so they a little more heat directed in that center spot that's hard to get done before the outer edge crisps out.

Do you use the wet toweling around the outside or the Magic Strips--that might help.

Did you disturb it five mins before it was done?

how do you make the tent on the top if the pan....i know this is probably a stupid question, but i have never heard of it and it sounds like it could be helpful!! please let me know, i would love to try this....exactly how do you do it?

You gotta be careful to not disturb the hot batter but after the cake has crusted on top--I spray a piece of foil so I can remove it later and just fold it once n half open it up and insert it into the oven it on top of the cake pan. It helped my big cakes bake better in my home oven.

I have a Deluxe--just never got it hooked up. why am I smiling

I think i'll try that foil trick. I have another in the oven now and used less batter. we'll see!

thanks so much! sounds good, i will have to try it!

When I bake a cake I start it off at 350 later dropping the temperature more toward the end so there's that too.

I think that for big cakes for some ovens, the way they cycle plus if we open the door letting off heat--the temp can languish where the batter in the middle of the big cakes never gets hot enough to fire the baking powder.

You do have an oven thermometer doncha?

Did you open the oven a lot?