Easy Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe

You will fall in love with this Chocolate Lava Cake recipe with its rich molten chocolate center! Ready in less than 30 minutes, this decadent dessert is sure to impress and is perfect for any occasion. All you need are a handful of simple ingredients, and you’ll have this rich and fudgy chocolate treat in no time. You won’t believe how easy it is to make molten chocolate lava cakes at home. They are the perfect individual desserts that are purposefully slightly undercooked, resulting in a gooey and melty chocolate center that oozes out when you cut into it.

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Hey I’m John canel and today on prey kitchen we’re making some quick and easy chocolate lava cakes so let’s get started first off set your OV into 450 so it is nice and hot this recipe comes together in a flash now grab six 4 to 5

Oz ramkin and we’re going to butter and flour them lightly if you don’t know how big your Ramin are I don’t blame you it’s like there’s no label on them just measure out 4 oz of water or half a cup and see if it fills it

Up okay all right give these a nice coating of butter this recipe is basically foolproof there’s only two things that can go wrong one they get stuck in the Ramin you’re not going to let that happen because we’re going to liberally butter them and sparingly flour them and two you overbake them if

You overbake your cakes they’re just delicious little chocolate cakes they’re not lava anymore so I’ll show you how to make sure that doesn’t happen later on in the video use your finger just to make sure that corner has enough butter now sprinkle just a bit of flour maybe a

Teaspoon and a half give it give it a good shake and make sure you coat The Edge tap to release and repeat for the remaining Ramkin okay my rakins are all prepped let’s set those aside and chop our chocolate by the way if you haven’t subscribed hit that sub button there’s new videos every week and there’s always something delicious on the horizon grab a medium pot we’re going to fill it with

About an inch and 1/ half to 2 in of water and put that over medium heat you also want a glass bowl that fits over the pot without touching the water this is a double boiler and if you don’t want to do this you could just use your

Microwave I’ll tell you how to do that later now we want 6 oz or 168 G of bittersweet chocolate this is the flavor of these lava cakes so choose a bitter sweet chocolate you really like if you’re in a pinch you could totally use bittersweet chocolate chips

For this it will work in the recipe I just prefer the chocolate bars you get a higher quality of chocolate and they melt more easily chop your chocolate into nice small uniform pieces you don’t want a situation where there’s a few lumps of big chocolate and you’re

Waiting and waiting and waiting for them to melt and the rest of your chocolate’s getting too hot okay that’s nicely chopped one thing about the double boiler is it’s just using steam heat the steam is heating up this bowl that’s gently going to melt your chocolate if you’re using your

Microwave just use a microwave safe bowl and microwave it at 30C increments on high power if you’re squeamish and worried about burning your chocolate you could totally go lower and you’ll just have more increments to melt in stir in between transfer your chopped chocolate into your

Bowl we also want half a cup or 13 G of unsalted butter cut those into a few pieces and now we’re going to place this onto our double boiler just stirring occasionally so it melts evenly reduce heat to low so your Waters add a simmer

Not a boil place your bowl on top and just be ready to mix occasionally it’ll be a few minutes and you don’t have to stir stir stir it’s really just like come take a look see what’s happening stir come take a look right now I have

To tell you this recipe is one of like it one of the easiest things you can do and if you want to have people over and make it seem really impressive a chocolate lava cake is where it’s at because there’s only a few ingredients you have them on hand there’s no worry

About like over mixing or whatever else you’re just stirring it together and popping it into the oven if you wanted to you could make these lava cakes pour them into the ramkin cover them and leave them in your fridge for up to 2 days then when people come over let them

Come to room temperature and bake as normal so you can do the prep work well in advance and they bake in like 6 minutes so it’s very easy all right this melted so quickly so take that off heat and take it off heat because that steam will continue to heat your

Chocolate for no reason set that aside now in a large bowl we’re going to add two large room temperature eggs if you’re following best practices you can crack them into a separate Bowl check for shells and continue we also want to have two egg yolks for added

Richness so you could save those whites for something else they freeze really well and two yolks I also want 1/4 cup or 50 g of granulated sugar it’s really not a lot you’re just giving enough sweetness to this because the chocolate is so rich and flavorful you don’t want

To add so much sugar that it takes away from that flavor which is a thing I also want unel or an eighth of a teaspoon of salt just for a little bit of contrast I’m using a hand mixer for this because there really isn’t that much volume in my bowl and stand mixers

Do not like that so use a hand mixer or you can even mix this by hand I’m beating this on medium speed until it’s thicker in a nice beautiful pale yellow color I would not want to do this by hand but you can you can for me this dessert is super nostalgic

Because when I was in high school there were a couple restaurants you could go to and like the fancy thing to order was a chocolate lava cake I had no idea it was such an easy recipe to make or I would have made it myself there’s some

Debate for when this recipe came to the US and who invented it it probably came from France probably a while ago but it became popularized here in the ‘ 80s and ’90s restaurants love putting chocolate lava cakes on the menu because the batter is super easy you can make them way ahead

Of time and then you just bake them off as the customers order them and they bake off in an instant and they’re super dramatic and you know they seem very impressive and they’re delicious but it’s very easy all right a little bit of mixing later and you can see I’ve thickened my

Mixture it’s a lighter yellow color and ready for our next step we’re going to add this amazing chocolate mixture to the eggs pour that in and I will point out the chocolate cooled down a bit while we were mixing the eggs if you added the hot chocolate right into the eggs without waiting

There’s a chance the eggs could kind of curdle a bit so I would just make sure you give it a couple minutes to cool down to hold this cake together I want a whopping 2 tablespoons of flour so little it’s crazy I’m going to sip this

In as I mix just to make sure there’s no lumping happening really gives you a nice even distribution of flour mix that together until it’s well combined and you see no streaks and also scrape the bowl down with your spatula while you’re at it okay just like that our batter is

Totally done it was so easy grab your ramkin and we’re going to divide this up without spilling any if All I slightly overfilled my five rakins one of them is going to be empty but that’s totally fine you don’t have to have six slightly smaller cakes you could have five slightly larger ones you might just add 30 seconds or so of baked time these guys are ready to go into the

Oven at 450 for 6 to 8 minutes I’m going to show you what it looks like when they’re ready because that is the most crucial part you do not want to overbake these and you also don’t want to bake them in advance bake them just just as

You’re ready to serve them so get your dessert plates out pop these into the oven and we’ll be right Back I baked these cakes for 7 minutes because there was a little bit of extra batter and I want you to see straight out of the oven they have just a little bit of jiggle and you can see the edges are set you’re going to let these cool

In the ramkin for 1 minute grab your dessert plate place it over the top and invert it think of thoughts okay you can use a little bit of an oomph to dislodge it okay that is nice and molten on top and I’m not worried about the center being totally molten

Because top it with some powdered sugar garnish with some raspberries and it’s ready for a bite pure Decadence that is so rich chocy fudgy warm and amazing you just can’t stop smiling when you eat it I hope you get a chance to make this recipe and if you like this video check out my chocolate playlist