OT: How do I get a bundt cake to have a flat bottom?

The middle of a bundt cake can't be undercooked, as there is no middle! At least this is true in my bundt pan.

I believe that the proof is in the placing of the pudding:

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Desserts-747 ... udding.htm

My mom was queen of the bundt cakes. I don't remember the bottoms being a problem, maybe she trimmed them a little? She used to cool the bundt cake by hanging the pan on the neck of wine bottle for about 10 minutes or so after it was brought out of the oven, once the cake cooled and shrank a little she would turn it over onto a plate. They always came out of the pan perfectly intact.

But I still cannot look at a bundt cake now without laughing, thinking about that scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when the Greek family had no idea what to do with a bundt cake and decided the hole in the middle must be to hold a flower pot. I used to make a great drunken sour cream poppy seed bundt cake for that certain kind of pot luck (it's been a few years now since I've made one) and my DH and I couldn't refrain from going around making remarks about the bundt cake in fake Greek accents whenever I made one.

"Bundt cake? What ees this 'bundt' cake? Why does eet have a hole?"

(It was my second favorite scene after the rehearsal dinner scene where the aunt can't wrap her mind around the fact that the fiance didn't eat meat. "What do you mean you don't eat meat? Come to my house and I fix you lamb. It's not meat, it's lamb.")

Sorry I did not make it back to explain a sad streak, but thanks to jnk for doing so.

And yes, I think it is a Southern thang.

American by birth, Southern by the grace of God!