I’m making the WASC cake for the first time and had two 8” cakes in oven, pans sprayed and wrapped with damp Wilton bake even strips and they cooked with a ring separating edge of cake with center!!!! What went wrong??? I’m afraid if I take this out it will all just break!!

Very frustrating, I know. I've used WASC quite often and never had any problem with it. You don't say what temp you had the oven, but it looks like that was definitely part of the problem. I don't use the bake-even strips either so I can't speak to those, but I'm betting it was the temp.

I've never seen anything like this!  I use WASC all the time, with and without the baking strips and never had anything like this happen.  It does take considerably longer for the cake to bake when using the strips.   Hopefully kakeladi  or -K8memphis can answer your question.

Sorry I'm just now finding this post.  I don't think I have ever seen anything like that before either.  What brand cake mix did you use?  Are you *sure* you followed the recipe exactly?  What temp did you bake at?  Really need much more information.  As I think on tis more......Im wondering if you  somehow took the cake out while it was still in need of baking - long before it was done - did you drop it right out of the oven - are you sure your oven is right on temp?  Maybe, if it's an electric over one of you elements is burned out.  Just some very quick thought pulsing through my head as I type!