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.
Oh yum these look so good, I love the gooey centre!
I have ace this recipe twice and still can’t get the center to be gooey! What am I doing wrong?
Love the blender would be a great asset to my tools
These look absolutely delicious! Any substitution for butter? I want to make it for someone who can’t eat dairy… thanks!
These look great! Have to make them for my roommate soon 🙂
I made these last night, for dessert following our Valentines Dinner.
I have enjoyed Molten Lava Cakes
on numerous cruises that I have taken. I have tried recipes to duplicate this wonderful treat in the past, with no luck. Your recipe was PERFECTION!!! I served them with a crushed raspberry sauce and whipped topping. Each bite was perfection…
THANK YOU
looks good! what kinda flour do you use? all purpose or cake flour?
Any chance you can make this in the microwave?
I can’t believe how easy is to make. As you, I always have this at restaurants and always think it may have some kind of trick bake it. I should try at home, I really like molten, well, I love whatever is made with chocolate 🙂
By the way, I think the time in the oven as well as the temperature is enough to have eggs cooked, we can have eggs done when boiling for just 3 minutes…!!!
This looks solo good right now!