Lava cake is by far my
favorite desert. It has actually turned into a joke between our friends.
We went on a cruise with our friends and I ordered the Molten Cake for
desert every single night. When we returned home I made dozens of
batches trying to make a version perfect to our taste, gooey but not too
runny.
This version is for our good friend Ian's birthday. Hope he likes it!!
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, or bars, cut into bite-size chunks
- 5 large eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 4 teaspoons flour (or matzo meal, ground in a blender to a fine powder)
- 4 ramekins
Garnish:
- 1 (6 ounce) container raspberries, barely moistened and rolled in about
- 1/2 cup sugar right before serving
Directions
- Prep your ramekins. Rub the inside with butter then sift coco powder onto the butter. (I know, it's messy but worth it.)
- Melt butter and chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl over a
saucepan of simmering water; remove from heat. Beat eggs, sugar and salt
with a stand mixer in a medium bowl until sugar dissolves. Beat egg
mixture into chocolate until smooth. Beat in flour or matzo meal until
just combined. (Batter can be made a day ahead; return to room
temperature an hour or so before baking.)
- Before serving dinner, adjust oven rack to middle position; heat
oven to 450 degrees. Line a standard-size muffin tin (1/2 cup capacity)
with 8 extra-large muffin papers (papers should extend above cups to
facilitate removal). Spray muffin papers with vegetable cooking spray.
Divide batter among muffin cups.
- Bake until batter puffs but center is not set, 8 to 10 minutes.
Carefully lift cakes from tin and set on a work surface. Pull papers
away from cakes and transfer cakes to dessert plates.
- Top each with sugared raspberries and serve immediately.
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