help! cake rapidly sinking...

[janek]

i'm in the process of making a chocolate cake, or rather it has already been in the oven for the requisite time and is now cooling, and as it is cooling it is sinking...

it is from nigella lawson's how to eat book, called 'birthday cake' and contains condensed milk. nigella did say 'don't expect a skewer to come out clean, indeed you wouldn't want it to', so i didn't worry too much, just cooked it for the requisite time.

it seems this may have been a blunder... so what can i do now? can i put it back in the oven to finish it off? will it be okay anyway? any words of wisdom? it would be a shame if the cake were ruined as i've been looking forward to it for several days now...

tia

i'd put it back in for five minutes to ensure it's cooked (sinking means it isn't done yet). You'll still have a crater, view this as am opportunity to pile lots of whiped cream and raspberries on top.

i'd put it back in for five minutes to ensure it's cooked (sinking means it isn't done yet). You'll still have a crater, view this as am opportunity to pile lots of whiped cream and raspberries on top.

i'd put it back in for five minutes to ensure it's cooked (sinking means it isn't done yet). You'll still have a crater, view this as am opportunity to pile lots of whiped cream and raspberries on top.

Blooming phone. Sorry. You'd only need to put it back in the oven once. Not three times. Sorry.

that's what a feared. presumably it's too late now though. i looks a bit harder, it might be okay...

i will be covered with a 'ganache' which is essentially chocolate melted into double cream and then spread about willy nilly. there will be a massive crater-full of ganache i imagine. and it may not harden like it's supposed to...

it such a shame, it looked amazing when it came out of the oven.

thanks for your response though...

perhaps it continued to cook as it cooled.

probably.
Mmm, ganache

im sure it will taste yummy

In my experiance i find most of nigellas cakes take longer to cook than she says...
i would say my oven BUT, it was oven at my old and current house, as well as the ovens of 3 of my ex charges homes (normally top of the range super expensive range cookers) and and also MIL's aga as well!

i've found that too nanny. But they are also very good, she doesn't scrimp on the goodies. I once set out to make her brownies only to realise the three large bars of green and blacks i had weren't enough...

i agree they are very very good
i LOVE nigella, have most of her books, many of them anotated with my opinion of appropriate cooking time!!!

mine are annotated with old school measurements as all hers are metric and i have those old scales that balance and only have imperial weights!