Have you ever fallen victim to a cake with a sunken center?

You spend hours laboring over your batter, tirelessly whisking together your wet and dry ingredients before painstakingly pouring every last drop of the mixture into your cake pan…only to take out a freshly-baked cake that has a crater in the middle. Unfortunately for you, your cake is undercooked and, essentially, inedible.

If you feel alone in your baking struggles, fret not! Even seasoned bakers find it difficult to fully bake their cakes. In last week’s episode of the “Great British Bake Off,” Toby Littlewood struggled to bake his school cake, which sank in the middle.

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