Need advice about a cake recipe please.

[suiledonne]

Hi, dd1 is allergic to eggs and I found this recipe for a cake that tastes very good.

The only problem is that I have made it twice and both times the centre was very soft and gooey despite cooking it for longer than advised.

2 cups all-purpose flour
⅓ cup cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
200g melted butter OR ⅔ cup oil
1 x 400g can regular OR Lite sweetened condensed milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract or essence
1 cup water OR (coffee for a Mocha cake) OR (orange juice for a Jaffa cake)

Preheat oven to 150°C (350°F). Prepare an 20cm (8 inch) round springform tin OR an 20cm (8 inch) ring tin or brundt mould.
In a large bowl sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda. Make a well in the center.
Melt butter and condensed milk in microwave bowl and stir until combined or heat oil and condensed milk gently on stove top stirring continuously until blended.
Stir in the vanilla.
Pour the wet ingredients along with the water (or coffee or orange juice) into the well of dry ingredients.
Combine and spread in prepared pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool in pan.
Cover with chocolate icing if desired.

Any advice on how to stop this from happening?

I had thought of using 2 smaller tins and sandwiching them with filling. Would this help and the mixture would be in shallower tins?

Thanks

I would be tempted to bake in 2 sandwich cake tins.

My DD is allergic to egg too and I have found a fantastic egg free choc cake recipe which everyone loves - I shall search and report back

try sticking a metal flower nail in the middle of the cake batter (cheap thing you can reuse, used to make icing flowers on) that will help cook the cake in the middle and rise evenly. hth