Chocolate Lava Cake

By staceycohentisch

Ingredients

• 6 oz. semi-sweet baking chocolate
• (or use your favorite 70% dark chocolate bar)
• 6 oz. butter (diced, room temperature)
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup flour
• Butter for ramekins

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt chocolate on low flame in a bain-marie (double boiler). When melted, take off flame and stir in diced butter, until it melts. In another bowl, beat eggs and sugar, until it starts to whiten. Stir in melted chocolate and then the flour.

Butter 4 individual ramekins, and pour in chocolate batter. Cook for about 10 minutes.

Tip ramekins upside down onto dessert plates and serve.

You can definitely prepare your chocolate lave cake recipe ahead of time, and then bake 10 minutes before serving.

In terms of buttering the ramekins: butter the bottoms first, and then butter the sides, wiping from the bottom up to the top. It helps the chocolate to rise even more.