The 'sad streak' happens to me every year when I make my daughter's birthday cake. I make the strawberry ribbon cake which begins with a box cake mix then has a cream cheese mixture center. Same as everyone else says -- it comes out of the oven perfect then drops! To me that 'gummy' part spoils the taste as well as the look. I use a tube pan and tried the stoneware type as well as the metal pans. The streak happened in both. So I plan to try your technique and hope for the best. Thank you!

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