I had been meaning to make some lava cakes for a while, simply to see how well I can get the shape and inner molten centers right. For a first attempt, this turned out fabulous even if I say so myself 🙂
I baked this decadence over the weekend. It rose beautifully and the crust was cracked and heavenly. Be very careful not to burn your tongue on this. I speak from experience, like I almost always do. Learn from my mistakes, ok? The chocolate inside is burning hot when the cakes come out of the oven and they take a while to cool down which is probably the toughest thing to handle when making molten chocolate lava cakes.
Since neither TH nor I like very runny centres for our molten chocolate cakes, I increased baking time but made sure that the centre is still gooey and fudgy. This consistency was perfect for us.
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
Fills 4 medium-sized ramekins
Recipe source - showmethecurry.com
Ingredients:
Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate – 4 oz (113g)
Butter – ½ cup + to grease ramekins
Eggs – 2
Sugar – ⅓ cup (75 g)
All-purpose Flour – ¼ cup (40g)
Instructions:
1. In a double boiler, melt chocolate. Once melted and shiny, remove pan from heat and add in butter. Mix until the butter melts fully. Set aside to cool.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy (about 3 mins by electric mixer, 5 mins by hand)
3. Add chocolate-butter mixture into the eggs, add all-purpose flour and mix until well incorporated.
4. Butter bottom and sides of ramekins (small glass/porcelain bowls) and pour in mixture until ¾ way full.
5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 C) for 10 – 15 minutes. Shorter for gooey (molten) inside, longer for stiff inside. I baked for about 13-15 mins.
6. Serve warm with ice-cream, fruits or whipped cream.
Yep, I had to push out some of the centre with my spoon to demo that 😉 Now, one thing to remember is, you have to serve molten chocolate lava cakes with some fruits, whipped cream, or ice cream to balance out the dense chocolate flavour - its really overpowering. True death by chocolate!
Indu
Hi nags,
i just love ur cake its just mouth watering. want to make them this week end but i have a prob in adding eggs to the recipe, i am a pure veg . suggest me any other option for this.
good pics,
adios:)
usha
very nice pic and amazing cake..
Anonymous
i recently shifted to a new place...n i just cudn figure out hw the hell to switch the oven on! used microwave instead...ended up with balloon like things on top of each ramekin! 🙁 i think i shud ve mw ed it for a minute...i did 5 🙁 all in the bin now!
Nags
oh no! well mistakes make us stronger, do try again 🙂
SM
mmmmmm....totally drooling.... same ques as anonymous above....
1. anything to replace double boiler?
2. how do u bake with remkins...just place them in oven directly ?
3. in ur picture 1....i dont see the crust.... on the cake...did u remove it before serving...or serve it upside down?
Nags
Great questions! I don't have a double boiler either so a simple substitute for double boiler is, place a pan with the water to boil and another smaller pan that fits on the rim of the first one but whose bottom doesn't touch the water. Basically, the chocolate needs to be melted with the steam from the water.
I served the cake upside down that's why you don't see the crust in the first and last pic 🙂
To bake with ramekins, the recipe said place them on a baking sheet which you can do but I placed them directly.
Anonymous
Can I replace the double boiler with something simpler ?
Bergamot
divine is how I describe this dessert. It's a favourite with everyone in my family.
Noodlehead
Lady, you ain't doing anything to ease the power situation in Bangalore (yep, that's where I'm from!!). Everytime I stop by your blog you make something that I simply have to reproduce! Sigh. This one looks like a keeper 🙂
My daughter just saw this and she wants to come over to your place and get one! But she doesn't want any strawberries on hers, mind you.
Arch
What a pic, Nags ! The strawberry on it looks simply awesome...Must have been so so yum !! I signed up for this, but have really chickened out with all the exotic baking themes out there, but this is a beauty...waiting for the next one...