Molten Chocolate Cakes
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 4 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup butter, cut into pieces
- 1⁄4 cup heavy cream
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- whipped cream (optional) or vanilla ice cream (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Grease eight 6-ounce custard cups and dust with granulated sugar.
- In heavy 3-quart saucepan, combine chocolate, butter and cream; heat over low heat, stirring occasionally, until butter and chocolate melt and mixture is smooth.
- Remove from heat.
- Add vanilla; with wire whisk, stir in flour just until mixture is smooth.
- In medium bowl,with mixer at high speed, beat sugar, eggs, and yolks until thick and lemon-colored, about 10 minutes.
- Fold egg mixture, one-third at a time, into chocolate mixture until blended.
- Divide batter evenly among prepared custard cups.
- Place cups in jelly-roll pan.
- Bake until edge of cake is set but center still jiggles, 8 to 9 minutes.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 3 minutes.
- Run thin knife around cakes to loosen from sides of cups; invert onto dessert plates.
- Serve immediately with whipped cream or ice cream, if desired.
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Reviews
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These were super easy to make and extremely chocolatey-totally satisfied my craving for something gooey and chocolatey. I halved the recipe but made two servings in ramekins. Since these cakes are very rich, i couldnt finish the whole thing. My husband who isnt a big fan of chocolate, couldnt stop talking about how yummy they were. Thanks for sharing. My first time trying a molten cake recipe and turned out perfect.
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Tweaks
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I baked these in a Texas muffin tin, and baked them 10 minutes without paying attention, so I had no lava...but I will make them again and watch them more closely so next time I will! They were delicious! I used light cream, unsweetened chocolate and splenda, and I used ground almonds in place of the flour because we are on the South Beach Diet. I will make these over and over again, and hopefully perfect the baking time so I get the wonderful chocolate ooze!
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This was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good and soooooooo easy to make!! its hard to believe something that easy could taste THAT good. Next time though i will use paper muffin cups because they were a bit hard to remove from muffin rack. Serve immidiatley so that the center remains gooey! I also substituted the 1/4 cup heavy cream with 1/2 cup light whipped cream and it worked out fine, Thnx Sharlene for sharing such a GREAT recipe. BON APPETIT!!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sharlene~W
Campbell, California
I live in the San Francisco area and love it here. I discovered Recipezaar (then Food.com..Genius Kitchen) in 2001 and have been so happy to have my favorite recipes stored safely here. I am mother to 7 and grandmother to 7.
I love to knit, smock, sew, etc., but my favorite hobby of the moment is traditional rug hooking. This is a sample of what I do.? It's called "November".? I dyed most of the wool myself. It is made from wool flannel, cut into strips a little less than 1/4" and then worked into a linen backing. This is my 3rd rug.