Recipe: Tasty Molten Lava Cake

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Molten Lava Cake. WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE MOLTEN LAVA CAKES. It's perfect because it has a deep chocolate flavor and is not as sweet as semi-sweet chocolate. Brandielle submitted this to Tasty Kitchen a few days ago, and it's a similar concept to most molten cake recipes I've made wherein you mix eggs with egg yolks (and cocoa and powdered sugar and other things) then bake it just long enough to set the outer layer of cake to ensure that ooey, gooey center.

Molten Lava Cake All you need is the right molten lava cake recipe to walk you through the steps and you'll be turning out gooey chocolatey wonders at. These chocolate molten lava cakes are such an indulgent treat! Perfect for a special occasion, yet easy enough for every day. You can have Molten Lava Cake using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Molten Lava Cake

  1. It's of Dark Chocolate.
  2. It's of Whole Eggs.
  3. Prepare of Butter.
  4. It's of Brown Sugar.
  5. You need of Self Raising Flour.
  6. You need of Almond Extract.
  7. It's of Salt.

You'll love the deep chocolate flavor and the warm liquid center! These chocolate molten lava cakes are such an indulgent treat! Perfect for a special occasion, yet easy enough for every day. The molten chocolate lava cakes are rich, decadent, moist, robustly chocolaty, sweet enough but not too sweet.

Molten Lava Cake step by step

  1. Melt the dark chocolate and the butter in the microwave. Mix it well and let it cool down..
  2. Blend together the whole eggs, sugar, extract and salt for 3 minutes. Don't overbeat the eggs..
  3. Carefully stir the egg mixture in the chocolate and butter mix, using a spatula..
  4. Add the sifted flour and mix well..
  5. Grease a baking dish and dust it with flour..
  6. Fill the baking dish with the chocolate cake batter. Place a cube of dark chocolate in the center. Cover with more of the chocolate cake batter..
  7. Bake for 15 minutes at 190°C..
  8. Unmold carefully and serve immediately..

I used Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Bar and recommend using your favorite dark chocolate bar. The molten, barely-set chocolate that oozes from the center is my idea of heaven. Top with ice cream and chocolate sauce, if desired. This is such a foolproof recipe that yields amazingly warm, soft and gooey molten lava cakes. The best chocolate lava cake recipe I've ever had.