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 Bittersweet 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 350• and prepare 2 4 oz ramekins by spraying the inside with non stick spray and coating 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 but still jiggly in the center.