Recipe: Perfect Chocolate Molten Lava Cake

Chocolate Molten Lava Cake. Rich and decadent molten lava cakes filled with a silky gooey chocolate filling. They make a delicious dessert or Valentine's day treat! Molten lava cakes are the king of chocolate desserts.

Donal's gloriously gooey chocolate lava cake is a big version of the molten chocolate fondant and comes with easy peanut butter no-churn ice cream. 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. You can cook Chocolate Molten Lava Cake using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Molten Lava Cake

1. It's 113 gr of semi-sweet baking chocolate.
2. Prepare 113 gr of unsalted butter.
3. You need 115 gr of powdered sugar.
4. It's 3 of large eggs.
5. You need 45 gr of all purpose flour.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

It will be thick and gooey. Throw the butter and chocolate into a glass bowl. The butter will be melted, but the chocolate won't be. Whisk it slowly together and allow the chocolate to melt.

Chocolate Molten Lava Cake step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 425°F..
2. Spray 5 custard cups with baking spray and place on a baking sheet..
3. Microwave the butter and chocolate in a large bowl on high until the butter is melted, about 1 minute. Whisk until the chocolate is also melted..
4. Stir in the sugar until well blended. Whisk in the eggs then add the vanilla. Stir in the flour..
5. Divide the mixture among the custard cups..
6. Bake until the sides are firm and the centers are soft, about 10-12 minutes. Let stand 2 minute..
7. Invert on individual plates while warm and serve with vanilla ice cream..

Molten Lava Cakes are soft chocolate cakes with a warm chocolate center. They are a great easy, quick, and oh-so-satisfying dessert. The love of Molten Lava Cakes is universal, right? Molten chocolate cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a chocolate cake and a soufflé. Its name derives from the dessert's liquid chocolate center, and it is also known as chocolate moelleux, chocolate lava cake, or simply lava cake.