Lava cake with melting chocolate
A simple and easy recipe for an extremely addictive lava chocolate cake. You need only a few ingredients to make this quick dessert.
Ingredients
- 100 g dark / milk chocolate
- 80 g unsalted butter plus extra butter for greasing the ramekin
- 2 eggs
- 110 g crystal sugar
- 12 g cocoa powder
- 15 g all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Prepare 2 ramekins with a diameter of 13 cm. Grease each ramekin with butter and dust with cocoa powder.80 g unsalted butter, 12 g cocoa powder
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Melt the dark/milk chocolate with butter in the microwave or in a water bath. Let it cool.100 g dark / milk chocolate, 80 g unsalted butter
- Whisk eggs with crystal sugar until creamy. Pour in the chocolate mixture and stir. Then whisk in the flour and cocoa powder. Slowly stir everything together with a rubber spatula or a wooden spoon. The batter will be thick.2 eggs, 110 g crystal sugar, 15 g all-purpose flour
- Pour the batter into greased and dusted ramekins to 3/4 of the ramekins. Place ramekins in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. The cakes will be still soft in the center even after 20 minutes.
- Take the lava cakes out of the oven and place them on the heat-resistant mat. The tops of the cakes are not even, they can have bumps, or they can get over the ramekin.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes. The top should fall a little but if not - use a fork to get the cake inside the ramekin and make an even surface. On top I put a thin layer of cold milk chocolate right from the fridge, then dust the tops with cocoa powder (or just dust the tops!) . Cakes should be eaten while they're still warm right from the ramekins.12 g cocoa powder
Notes
- you can use a smaller ramekin, just bake the cakes for less minutes (8-10)
- be careful and don't open the oven in the middle of baking, the center can fall down and destroy your cake
- can be served with vanilla ice cream as well