Simple Recipe: Tasty Chocolate Molten Lava Cake

Chocolate Molten Lava Cake. This molten chocolate cake, created by master chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is ready in under an hour! These irrisitable cakey desserts with a center. But his supremely rich and chocolaty original is in a class by itself.

Molten chocolate cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a flourless chocolate cake and a soufflé. Its name derives from the dessert's liquid chocolate center, and it is also known as chocolate moelleux (from French for "soft"), chocolate lava cake, or simply lava cake. Molten lava cakes are the king of chocolate desserts. You can have Chocolate Molten Lava Cake using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Molten Lava Cake

1. It's 100 Grams of Dark chcocloate ( cut into chunks).
2. It's 100 Grams of Butter ( cut in cubes).
3. You need 100 Grams of castor sugar.
4. You need 2 of Egg whites.
5. Prepare 2 of Egg yolks.
6. Prepare 100 Grams of Plain flour.
7. Prepare 20 Grams of butter Melted.
8. You need 2 Tablespoons of Cocoa Powder.

We like to make them on special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, and especially Valentine's day. You can't go wrong with a rich and chocolate dessert that's loaded with a gooey molten lava center. These chocolate molten lava cakes are such an indulgent treat! Perfect for a special occasion, yet easy enough for every day.

Chocolate Molten Lava Cake instructions

1. Prep the ramekins by brushing it with the melted butter & dust with cocoa powder.
2. Melt the chocolate chunks with butter in a double boiler or the microwave till a smooth creamy paste..
3. In a separate bowl add the sugar and whisk in the egg yolks till you get a pale yellow mixture.
4. Then add the egg whites and mix in the molten chocolate mixture.
5. Add the 100 gms of plain flour to this and whisk. The mixture should be a loose batter.
6. Pour a ladle of the mixture into the ramekin, place a chunk of chocolate in the center and cover the chunk with more batter. The chunk will melt while baking n ooze out when you cut the center of the cake.
7. Bake for 15 mins in a pre heated oven at 200 C.
8. Serve with a dollop of vanilla ice cream.

You'll love the deep chocolate flavor and the warm liquid Chocolate molten lava cakes… drool! So what is a chocolate molten cake (chocolate fondant cake)? Also known as chocolate molten lava cake, these are mini chocolate cakes. Chocolate Lava Cakes have a signature molten liquid chocolate center that flows out in a lava consistency when you cut into the cake. It has been made popular by restaurants but homemade molten chocolate cakes are so easy to recreate (watch the video tutorial) and taste even better!