Too much leavening agent like baking soda or powder can cause a cake to rise too high too quickly. The gas from the leavening agents builds up and escapes before the cake bakes through in the center. This causes the center to collapse and makes your cake layers sink in the middle.
How do you stop a cake from sinking in the middle?
5 Ways to Prevent Cakes from Sinking in the Middle
- Know Your Oven. At the outset, you have to know your oven. ...
- Fresh Ingredients. While baking cakes, always use fresh and comparatively new raw materials. ...
- Creaming the Eggs and Butter. ...
- Precise Measurement. ...
- Perfect Timing.
How do you fix a collapsed cake?
How to Fix a Major Sinking
- Cut out the middle of the cake using a chef's ring or cookie cutter that is slightly bigger than the sunken part of the cake. ...
- Fill the center with a mixture of fruit, frosting, icing, cream, and/or cream cheese.
- Decorate the top, sides, and edges of the cake with more fruit, frosting, etc.
