You can’t beat a classic! This Chocolate Molten Lava Cake is a rich chocolate cake with a liquid molten center. Best served with ice cream!
Originally posted June 15, 2008: My husband’s favorite dessert is chocolate molten lava cake, so for Father’s Day, I decided to make him his favorite. When I came to my blog, I realized that I still had the old photos from 2008 up, but I had actually re-photographed this recipe 2 years ago!! So I’ve finally updated the post with better photos, and decided to bring this to the top to reintroduce it to all of you. Because everyone needs a good molten lava cake recipe in their collection.
This recipe is super simple. My biggest tip for you when making molten lava cake is to practice with your timing. They can go from being completely underdone to overdone in the blink of an eye. But once you get your timing figured out, you’ll be making these Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes all the time!!
The original post from 2008 follows:
Today’s post is going to be a short one. I’ve been debating about whether or not to even post this dessert – bad photo or not. There are about a million recipes out there for molten chocolate cakes, and they are probably all equally good. But just in case you haven’t had a chance to make one yet, here’s another wonderful recipe!
I actually made these for dessert on Valentine’s Day. It was dark out, and when you are wanting to eat, not wanting to ruin a nice dinner by having to stop and take time out of your dinner to take pictures, this is what happens to the photo. But we did enjoy the cakes, and the dinner for that matter!!
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Chocolate Molten Lava Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- Unsweetened cocoa powder for dusting
- 8 ounces semi sweet chocolate chopped
- 4 large eggs
- 4 large egg yolks
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup all purpose flour sifted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
- Coat 6-8 custard cups with the 1 tablespoon of butter. Dust the cups with cocoa powder to coat, tapping out any excess cocoa.
- Combine the remaining butter and the chocolate in a small saucepan and set over low heat, stirring until melted and smooth.
- In a medium bowl, combine the eggs, egg yolks and sugar and beat until pale and doubled in volume. (This is easiest to do with an electric mixer - it should take about 3-5 minutes.)
- Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Add the flour and whisk until smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared cups, dividing equally. Bake the cakes for 13-15 minutes, until puffed in the center and set around the sides. If you test it with a toothpick, some batter will show. Let the cakes rest for 5 minutes.
- Run a small, sharp knife around the sides of the molds. Place a plate under the cup, then flip it over, inverting and releasing the cake.
- Serve with whipped cream, ice cream, and/or chocolate syrup.
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Brilynn says
You really can’t go wrong with a molten chocolate cake, it’s bound to be delicious!
Mary says
I don’t think your cake is such a bad photo. It makes me want to lick the screen anyway.
Emiline says
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I love molten chocolate cake.
Kristen says
Your so called “bad photo” has me licking the screen!
Elle says
The cake looks great! And you know what, a lot of recipes floating around or not, I have *always* wanted to make these. The idea of cutting into a small chocolate cake with chocolate lava inside is heaven!
chriesi says
Mmm that is delicious!
Dhanggit says
good or bad photo.. i do believe that anything that comes out from your kitchen is heavenly delicious 🙂
Grace says
no photo of oozing chocolate could ever be considered bad in my book. deeeelicious!
KJ says
I love molten chocolate cake. They are so impressive and delicious.
Tara says
I love the idea of bad photo sundays! I just might have to borrow (steal) that idea for my blog. There are times when you just want to eat and don’t have the time or energy to take a good photo! But that looks like a delicious dessert… 🙂
Gretchen Noelle says
Mmmmm! These look delicious!
Patsyk says
My husband just walked by as I was looking at this post and he said that looks good!
ps… you’ve been tagged.
glamah16 says
Who cares what the photos look like. Its MOlten Chocolate cake! How can it go wrong?
noble pig says
I love Molten cakes, there is just something about chocolate ooze that gets me going!
Megan says
These little cakes are so impressive and they are so easy. My favorite cake for sure! I make a spiced version from McCormick but I’ll have to try these.
Happy cook says
Well the cake looks DELICIOUS to me.
I have never made them but my daughter has been going on asking me to make one