Friday, January 21, 2011

Chocolate Lava Cake

Mora's Ice Cream in Bainbridge got me looking for a chocolate lava cake recipe...Mora's is awesome, but I dont want to go all the way to Bainbridge everytime I crave chocolate lava cake...so I decided to search for a recipe and give it a try.

I found this recipe when I was actually looking for fondant recipe on a French desserts website. I decided to try out this recipe and surprisingly, it was amazinggg!!!!!

Ingredients:

6 oz. Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate (or use your favorite 70% dark chocolate bar)
6 oz. Butter (diced, room temperature)
3 Eggs
1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
1/3 cup Flour
Butter for Ramekins



How to Make It:

Preheat oven to 350°F
1. Melt chocolate on low flame in a bain-marie (double boiler). When melted, take of flame, and…
2. Stir in diced butter, until it melts.
3. In another bowl, beat eggs and sugar, until it starts to whiten.
4. Stir in melted chocolate and then the flour.
5. Butter 4 individual ramekins, and pour in chocolate batter.
6. Cook for about 10 minutes--cooking time depends on how liquid you want the center to be.
7. Tip ramekins upside down onto dessert plates and serve.





Source: http://www.famousfrenchdesserts.com/chocolate-lava-cake-recipe.html