Recipe: Yummy Molten lava cake

Molten lava cake. Whisk the flour, confectioners' sugar, eggs and yolks, vanilla extract and almond extract in a bowl until creamy. Whisk in the melted chocolate mixture. Molten lava cakes are the king of chocolate desserts.

Melt chocolates and butter in the microwave or in a double boiler. Add flour and sugar to chocolate mixture. If there's one indisputable fact about molten chocolate lava cake, it's this: you must serve it with either whipped cream or ice cream. You can have Molten lava cake using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Molten lava cake

1. You need 1 stick (4 ounces) of unsalted butter.
2. You need 6 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, preferably Valrhona.
3. You need 2 of eggs.
4. You need 2 of egg yolks.
5. It's 1/4 cup of sugar.
6. You need Pinch of salt.
7. Prepare 2 tablespoon of all-purpose flour.

The chocolate is so rich and mind-blowing, you need something to balance it out. A deep chocolate lava cake recipe with a liquid chocolate center. Many recipes get this effect by purposely undercooking the cake, so that the middle is raw batter. Spray four custard cups with baking spray and place on a baking sheet.

Molten lava cake instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 450°. Butter and lightly flour four 6-ounce ramekins. Tap out the excess flour. Set the ramekins on a baking sheet..
2. In a double boiler, over simmering water, melt the butter with the chocolate. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with the egg yolks, sugar and salt at high speed until thickened and pale..
3. Whisk the chocolate until smooth. Quickly fold it into the egg mixture along with the flour. Spoon the batter into the prepared ramekins and bake for 12 minutes, or until the sides of the cakes are firm but the centers are soft. Let the cakes cool in the ramekins for 1 minute, then cover each with an inverted dessert plate. Carefully turn each one over, let stand for 10 seconds and then unmold. Serve immediately..

Microwave the butter, bittersweet chocolate and semisweet chocolate in a large bowl on high. Molten chocolate cakes — also known as chocolate lava cakes — are rich individual chocolate cakes with oozing molten centers. The original recipe was created by master chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten fortuitously, when he pulled a chocolate cake out of the oven before it was done and discovered the center to be enticingly warm and pudding-like. Mist them lightly with non-stick spray. Then melt chocolate and butter together (I like to do this in the microwave, but a double boiler would work well too!), and stir in the powdered sugar.