Easy Molten Lava Cakes
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Recipe type: Dessert, Cake, Chocolate
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Serves: serves 4
 
Ingredients
  • butter and cocoa powder for coating the custard cups
  • 1 stick butter
  • 2 ounces 70% dark chocolate
  • 2 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 1¼ cups powdered sugar
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
Preparation Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 425˚
  2. Coat 4 large ramekins with butter and dust lightly with cocoa powder, set aside.
  3. In a medium mixing bowl, melt the butter and both chocolates in the microwave for about a minute and a half then stir until smooth.
  4. Whisk in the powdered sugar, eggs, egg yolks, vanilla and then flour until smooth.
  5. Divide between the ramekins, a bit less than 5 ounces of batter in each if you prefer to weight them over eyeballing it.
  6. Place ramekins on a baking sheet and place in the oven.
  7. Bake for about 15 minutes or until the top has just domed a bit and is no longer jiggly.
  8. Remove from the oven an let cool for 1 minute, then turn out onto serving plates (may need to run a knife round the edge) and serve with vanilla ice cream.
Recipe by Foods of Our Lives at https://www.foodsofourlives.com/2016/01/easy-molten-lava-cakes/