Help! My Cakes Fell...

Decorating By sweetdreams06 Updated 23 Oct 2006 , 3:39am by moydear77

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sweetdreams06 Posted 21 Oct 2006 , 2:58pm
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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.

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thyterrell Posted 21 Oct 2006 , 3:08pm
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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.

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Kitagrl Posted 22 Oct 2006 , 9:19pm
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I would say either not 100% "done" or maybe try blending it longer than the package says....

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moydear77 Posted 23 Oct 2006 , 3:39am
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I find that the pudding makes flatter cakes and also need more cooking time.

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