Individual Molten Chocolate Cakes

Serves 4

Time to prepare, start to finish – 30 minutes

Now if you’re like me,  and LOVE CHOCOLATE, then this is one recipe you’ll go nuts over!!  This molten cake is sure to be a hit with the upcoming holidays approaching.  Recipe can be doubled or even tripled, easily.  Super simple, yet very impressive, this is one that you’ll want to make again and again. 

Ingrediants:

• 1 stick unsalted butter
• Unsweetened cocoa powder for dusting
• 4 oz 70%-cacao bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 2 whole large eggs plus 2 large egg yolks
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 tsp all-purpose flour

• Preheat oven to 450ºF with rack in middle. Butter ramekins and dust with cocoa powder.

• Slowly melt butter (1 stick) in a small heavy saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate until melted and smooth.

• Beat eggs, yolks, sugar, and a pinch of salt with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and tripled in volume. Fold in warm chocolate mixture and flour gently but thoroughly. Pour batter into ramekins and arrange ramekins in a 4-sided sheet pan.

• Bake cakes until puffed and just starting to crack on the surface (cakes will still be wobbly), 8 to 10 minutes.

• Immediately invert a plate on top of each ramekin and reinvert. Let stand 1 minute, then gently remove ramekins

Equipment: 4 (6-oz) ramekins (2 1/4 inches tall) or 4 (8-oz) ramekins.  Can be served with ice cream!

Enjoy!!