OK...I baked a red velvet cake last night for practice. Used DH cake mix, pudding in the mix like I always do. I baked 2 8"round cakes, using my bake even strips. I took 2 beautiful looking cakes out of the oven and set them aside to cool. When I went back to turnthem out of the pans, they had literally shrunk! I mean they were flat (about half the height of when I took them out of the oven), and were easily a full inch smaller in diameter. I havenever had this happen before. Well, I cut into one of them, and it was cooked thouroughly so I thought I would just freeze these for cake balls for the holidays. I got up this morning and tried again, and the same thing happened. what am I doing wrong????? I'm so glad this is just for paractice, but still very frustrated.
Are you using enough cake batter in each pan? For an 8" pan, you should have about 4 cups of batter in each pan. Other than that, I wouldn't know why they would shrink that much.
I would say either not 100% "done" or maybe try blending it longer than the package says....
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