- check your oven temperature. It’s possible it’s not accurate
- You don’t take a cake out of the oven just because you’ve cooked at as long as the directions to say to cook it. You test it by sticking a clean toothpick in the center. If it comes out clean, it’s done. If not, then it needs to bake a little longer. (You don’t “poke” it to check for denseness.)
- You don’t “open up” cakes. You make sure they are done first.
- There should never be anything liquid or soft or anything at all coming out of a cake!
You never mention that you cook you cake longer than the 35-45 minutes the directions call for. You HAVE to test it to make sure it’s done before taking it out of the oven!!!
Get an oven thermometer to test the accuracy of your oven. Put the thermometer in the oven, then ET it to 350 (or about 170 deg. C). Once fully pre – heated, check the thermometer. If it says less than 350, then your oven temperature isn’t accurate.
