Chocolate and Valentine’s Day just seem to go hand in hand….
Although, if you love chocolate like I do, you may find lots of reasons to make these amazingly delicious Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes!
I’ve enjoyed Chocolate Lava Cakes at restaurants in the past, but never realized how easy they are to make! In fact, since first making this recipe a couple weeks ago I’ve made 2 or 3 more times (just to make sure it was good enough to share… of course!)
If you’ve never enjoyed a Chocolate Lava Cake before, they are rich chocolate cakes with a high ratio of chocolate and butter to flour. The cakes are baked just long enough to hold their shape, but are purposely under-baked, in order to retain a delicious, “molten” hot fudge center.
This rich and delicious dessert is elegant enough to serve for a dinner party, but easy enough to make anytime you want a chocolate treat.
Share some chocolate with someone you love this week!
Happy baking!
How to Make Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes
Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425*F.
- Grease 6-8 (6oz) ramekins (oven safe dustard cups) with butter, or non-stick cooking spray. You can fill 6 dishes full, or 8 dishes 3/4 full.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in the microwave, or in a double boiler.
- Stir the melted chocolate and butter until smooth, then add the flour and sugar and stir just a couple times.
- Add in the eggs, yolks and vanilla, and stir until incorporated and smooth.
- Divide the batter as evenly as possible among the ramekins.
- Bake 14 minutes if using 6 dishes, or 12 minutes if batter is divided into 8 dishes. The edges should be firm, but the center will be loose.
- Allow to cool 1-2 minutes. Enjoy directly from the dish, or run a knife around the edges of the dish, and invert onto a dessert plate.
- Dust with powdered sugar, or serve with whipped cream, or vanilla ice cream.
Glory, these look like the perfect finish to any special meal. Warm chocolate. Yum. I wanted to mention to Kirsten (above) that though I believe the eggs have plenty of time in the oven to cook, when ever I am in doubt or have a recipe where the eggs aren’t cooked (like french silk pie) I just buy the eggs that are pasteurized in their shells (available at most grocery stores). Thanks!
Wendy, I think I was typing my reply to Kirsten as you were typing too =) Yes, the tip of using pasteurized eggs is great, especially for any dish where the eggs are not cooked at all. In this case, the inside does get quite hot, and since the cakes are cooked in a hot oven for 12-14 minutes I don’t believe there is any reason for concern with this dish.
That “Thanks?” Was supposed to be an exclamation “Thanks!” 🙂
These look wonderful! Is the center actually cooked? In other words, is there concern about the eggs not being cooked hot enough? Thanks?
Kirsten, Very valid question, since there is quite a lot of egg, and it appears quite undercooked, but I believe there is no reason for concern with this dish. The inside gets quite hot, since the dishes are small, and the cakes are baked in a hot oven for about 12-14 minutes. Even after the cakes cool a few mintues, you’ll find that when you dig in with your spoon it is quite hot inside.
I just made this and it is DELICIOUS!!! Not too rich, it’s perfect! And it literally took me 2o minutes start to finish… What a great recipe! Love love love!
So glad you gave it a try so soon! Aren’t they delicious? This is going to be dangerous in our house… now that I know I can make them so easily! =)
I bet these would be great for gluten free folks, who could substitute with coconut flour, since there is so little flour.
Great idea! I’ve never worked with coconut flour, but I do think this recipe would probably be a good one to try it on (since there is very little flour, as you noted).
I’ve never had a chocolate molten lava cake. Love that they are made in little ramekins, looks like a perfect serving size. Looks delicious too.
Oh Paula, if you like chocolate, you MUST try them! =)
OOh this looks so good!! I’m making this soon!!!
Today, at least…
This is my all time favorite dessert!
Molten lava cakes scream indulgence to me! Yours look like they turned out perfectly.