Easy Chocolate Lava Cake recipe
Serious about chocolate desserts? Then this easy Chocolate Lava Cake recipe is going to blow you away. Chocolate Lava Cakes are wonderfully chocolatey and melt in your mouth. A cross between a souffle and a cake these individual little puddings are simple to make and cook in just 12 minutes.
Servings: 4 people
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- fork, measuring cups and spoons
- baking tray
- 4 ramekins or muffin tin
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup chocolate dark - 75% cocoa solids
- 1/3 cup sugar caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoon cocoa
- 1/2 cup butter or non-dairy margarine
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup plain flour all-purpose flour
Optional for Chocolate Orange Lava Cakes
- 1 orange grated zest
- 1/2 teaspoon orange extract optional but worth it
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 400 F/200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Butter or oil the (4) ramekin dishes, sides and base. Line the bases with baking parchment. (draw around the bases and cut out neat little circles - makes life easier when it comes to serving the puddings.)
- Break the chocolate into a bowl and add the butter. Melt them together in the microwave using short 30 second blasts until it is all melted. Otherwise, melt in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of hot water. (Caution: do not let water or steam come into contact with the chocolate or it will spoil.)
- Set the melted butter chocolate mixture to the side to cool for a few minutes.
- Break the eggs into a bowl, add the sugar and whisk to combine. Add this to the melted chocolate/butter mixture and whisk. Add the flour, cocoa and vanilla extract and stir well to combine.
- Divide the mixture equally between the 4 ramekin dishes. Set the dishes on a baking tray and put in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes. If you're using a muffin tin, bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Cook until the tops are set but the middle still looks squidgy and molten.
Chocolate Orange Lava Cakes
- Add the grated zest of one orange and the orange extract (if using) when you add the flour to the chocolate mixture. Stir well to combine.
Notes
Nutritional Information is computer generated and is intended as a guideline only.
Storing:
These Chocolate Lava Cakes are best eaten fresh from the oven but if you do need to store them, this is what you should do.
- Unbaked mixture - Store the unbaked mixture in the fridge for up to a day and bake when you're are ready to eat them warm from the oven.
- Freeze the uncooked mixture in the ramekin dishes and bake from frozen for 16 minutes.
- Baked Puddings These will last for 2 days in the fridge but benefit from warming in the microwave ( a 30 second blast of heat) or oven for 5 minutes to restore the delicious, squidgy centres.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1ramekin | Calories: 484kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 22g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 184mg | Sodium: 255mg | Potassium: 235mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 35g | Vitamin A: 961IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 2mg