On Dec 8, 10:08�am, "*GED*" > wrote:
> When ever I bake Cakes for my Family,they generally turn out pretty
> good.However there is one thing which (lately) always seems to
> happen.After I have Baked the Cake in the Oven and allowed it to cool
> down,when I cut
> into it the fruit "Always" seems to have "sunk"!?!?!? to the bottom of
> the Cake.I have tried everything I know to prevent this
> happening.Although the Cakes turn out very good,and my Family eat them
> almost straight away,and they always compliment me on my Baking.This
> is "One" thing I would like to solve.I was Head Cook in a Old Peoples
> Home before I retired 12 years ago,I have thought about it might be
> just me losing my touch,but the more I think about it the more
> convinced I am that I must just be forgetting to do some rudimentary
> preparation would
> be most grateful for some of your suggestions to remedy this
> fault.Thank you in anticipation.
>
> I must admit this has sometimes kept me awake at night.I just can not
> think of the solution????.

Try flouring the fruit, add it at the end just before you put it into
the pans.
Rosie