After making
Baked Alaska, we thought we'd try something Hawaiian--Chocolate Lava Cake. Now this isn't really a Hawaiian recipe but volcanos are Hawaiian, right? It's a dessert and it's chocolate, both great bonuses.
We found
a recipe on Food Network by Ree Drummond from
The Pioneer Woman show.
The ingredients are basic:
- Cooking spray for the ramekins (or other small baking/serving dishes)
- 1 stick of butter
- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate
- 2 ounce semisweet chocolate
- 1.25 cups powdered sugar
- 2 whole eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- Vanilla ice cream for serving
The first thing we worked on was separating the eggs.
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Using the egg separator |
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Eggs! |
After pre-heating the oven to 425 Fahrenheit, we put the butter and chocolate in a bowl and melted them in the microwave (about one minute).
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Unwrapping the butter (which we let go to room temperature) |
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Butter and chocolate, yum! |
Out of the microwave, we whisked the mixture to make sure the chocolate was melted and well combined.
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Whisking the chocolate |
The sugar came next.
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Adding sugar a bit at a time |
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The final batch |
The eggs went next, then the vanilla, then the flour.
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Final addition |
Next, we divided the mixture among our dishes. The recipe is supposed to serve four but we thought we'd try some larger and some smaller dishes and wound up with five.
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Filling the big cups |
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Careful work |
After baking for 13 minutes (check that the sides look firm but the centers soft), we took them out to stand for a minute.
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Fresh from the oven (use a cookie sheet to avoid spills inside the oven) |
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Close up |
We inverted the dishes on a plate and the cakes fell out easily. Both sizes came out well which surprised (and delighted) us.
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Lava in the cake! |
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Gooey goodness |
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Delighted cook/taste tester |
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Good to the last drop! |
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