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Why did my cake fall?

Falling Cakes

If your cake falls when you take it out of the oven, it probably was underbaked. This means the protein and starch structure in the flour didn't set, and was too weak to hold the gas produced by baking powder and soda. Therefore the structure collapsed.

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