Magic Chocolate Lava Cake
This recipe offers the most popular—not to mention, tastiest—volcano in the world! This dessert is the real deal and there's no way any self-respecting chocoholic will be able to resist the chocolate brownie cake and the rich chocolate ganache that unite to create a luxurious culinary treat with a creamy core.
Equipment
- Large Bowl
- Hand mixer
- Deep baking pan (10 x 15-inch)
- Parchment paper
- Spatula
- Aluminum Foil
- Cookie cutters (2 inch, 4½ inch, and slightly larger)
Ingredients
- 12 oz melted butter
- 12 oz sugar
- 3 oz cocoa powder
- 12 oz flour
- 6 eggs
- 5 oz dark chocolate
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 7 oz white chocolate, chopped
- 7 oz dark chocolate, melted
- 7 oz milk chocolate, melted
- 3 oz dark chocolate, melted
- 3 fl oz heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and prepare the brownie cake mix. Place all the ingredients and half of the white chocolate in a large bowl. Stir everything together with a hand mixer until a smooth batter forms.
- Pour the batter in a deep baking pan (10 x 15-inch diameter) lined with parchment paper and smooth it out. Sprinkle the rest of the white chocolate on top.
- Bake the brownies for 25 minutes and let them cool down after removing the pan from the oven.
- You will now need two round, different sized cookie cutters, (e.g. 2 inch and 4½ inch in diameter). Take the larger cookie cutter and carve out 6 molds in the dough. Remove the dough from around the 6 mini cakes. Push the smaller cookie cutter into the center of each cake and remove the core you just created. In the end, the cakes should look like small donuts.
- For the chocolate decoration, pour the melted dark chocolate on a sheet of aluminum foil and smooth it out with a spatula. Let the chocolate cool.
- Using a third round cookie cutter with a diameter slightly larger than the cakes, cut out 6 chocolate tops and lay each one on top of a mini cake.
- Prepare the chocolate ganache by stirring together the melted chocolate and cream. While the ganache is still hot, pour ⅙ of the chocolate cream over each lava cake and enjoy the "chocolate crater" effect it will have on the desserts.
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Notes
Incidentally, the practical thing about this mini volcano is that it only "erupts" in the mouth. Such a chocolate explosion of flavor can not be imitated by any other dessert. The only downside to this rich treat is that you may not be able to eat it in one fell swoop, but we wouldn't exactly call that a problem!