when you check on it after it cools.

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Why Did My Cake Sink in the Middle?

Use one of these sunken cake fixes to impress everyone with your baking skills.

Cake pan on cooling rack

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Add a bit more frosting or whipped cream and smooth to an even level.

Mixing the crumbled cake with frosting and dipping it inchocolate or candy meltswill give you an entirely new dessert.

If you don’t have any candy sticks, serve them without, and you’ve got cake truffles.

Frosting cake layer

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Our Test Kitchen recommends making your favorite milkshake and adding crumbled cake pieces to yourblenderto create a cake shake.

Add a Filling

Have candy and sprinkles handy?

Pie fillings or fruit jams would make a tasty addition to a sunken cake.

Cake pops on plate of sprinkles

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Milkshake topped with cake and cherries

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Two layer white cake

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