To round out my valentine’s day recipe options, I had to include a valentine’s day classic, chocolate molten lava cake. To be honest though, I was a tad nervous because they are so easy to mess up. But I decided to try it. After all, the only way to master something is to just do it. And I am glad I did.
How do you even make a chocolate molten lava cake?
This cake has alway been a bit of mystery to me. Every time I have it, I think “how did they do that? It is a completely cooked cake with uncooked batter in the center. How!? Then I realized that cakes cook from the outside in so essentially a chocolate molten lava cake is just an under baked cake. Interesting. This goes in for just 13 minutes or until the sides are cooked and rise up a bit and the middle is still jiggly. The middle even looks a bit soupy. It feels weird to take a cake out at this point but trust me, that’s perfect. To be totally honest, I checked this like every 5 minutes to make sure it wasn’t over baking.
I hope you all try this recipe. I know you’ll love it. Have a wonderful valentine’s day and I will see you all next time.
Chocolate Molten Lava Cake
A rich personal chocolate cake with a chocolate molton center and served with iced cream, chocolate ganache and raspberry compote
Ingredients
- 4oz of Semi Sweet Baking Chocolate
- 6 TBSP of Unsalted Butter
- 1/4 of a cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 2 TBSP of AP Flour
- 1/8 Tsp of Salt
- 1/2 Tsp of Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400• and prepare 2 4 oz ramekins by coating the inside with butter and dusting it with a thin layer of cocoa powder.
- Melt the butter and chocolate together in a large bowl by melting it in the microwave at 30 second intervals and stirring in between until melted.
- Add in the sugar and salt and stir to incorporate.
- When the mixture is cool add the eggs and stir to incorporate.
- Add flour and stir just until incorporated.
- Divide between the 2 ramekins and bake for 13 minutes or until the cakes are cooked through on edges aout an inch around the sides but still jiggly in the center. The interior temperture will be 160•.
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