Hungry Jenny Faux Pas: Return of the Soggy Strawberry Cake

There is something about strawberry-based cakes that seems to defeat me.

These were perfectly tasty enough to eat, don't get me wrong, but they were not supposed to turn out like this.

Now, strawberries are my favourite berries in all the land, and I tend to go overboard buying them at the market when they're in season, looking all juicy.

The recurring issue I seem to have with strawberry cakes is that they usually turn out soggier than planned - the saving grace being that they are at least still edible.

With this particular version, not only were they soggy, but they spectacularly deflated once taken out the oven:

They were supposed to be muffins, for cake's sake!

This sinkage was probably for the most part due to me constantly opening the oven to turn the tray around. Not something I would normally do or encourage, for this is a Sin of cake-baking. But it's something I'm having to do at the mo to get my crusty oven to cook things evenly. Irk.

Really need to do something about this...

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