Chocolate Lava Cakes. Here's how to make incredibly decadent homemade chocolate lava cakes! This decadent easy to make chocolate lava cake will melt on your plate and in your mouth! The cake whips up in a few minutes and there's NO decoration to.

Serve with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream. Chris Salicrup, Tresha Lindo & Codii Lopez. Individual molten chocolate cakes are easy to make--and will impress any dinner guest! You can have Chocolate Lava Cakes using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Lava Cakes

You need 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
Prepare 4 oz of Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips.
It's 1 Stick of Unsalted Butter.
It's 2 of Eggs.
It's 2 of Egg Yolks.
It's 1/4 Cup of Sugar.
Prepare 2 of Tblsp Flour.

Reviews for: Photos of Chef John's Chocolate Lava Cake. Chocolate Lava Cakes look impressive but are super easy to make! These molten chocolate lava cakes may be my favorite small batch recipe to date and that's saying a lot given the number of times I've made this small batch chocolate chip cookie recipe. Chocolate Lava Cakes (also known as chocolate fondants) hide a core of gooey chocolate inside their sponge shell.

Chocolate Lava Cakes instructions

Preheat oven to 400*.
Grease and dust with flour, or spray with nonstick cooking spray, or line four large muffin cups..
Using a double boiler, or a large glass mixing bowl over a boiling pan of water melt butter and chocolate chips. Continue stirring until smooth and remove from heat. DO NOT allow to over heat, only heat enough to melt smoothly..
Add flour, sugar, eggs, and egg yolks to the melted chocolate mixture..
Divide batter into four prepared baking cups..
Bake about 10 minutes, until crusty layer forms and middle isn't jiggling when gently moved. Do not over bake, or you will not have Lava..
Allow to cool for about 5 minutes. Slide butter knife gently along the edge to make sure cake is not sticking. Gently lift cake out and invert on plate, or invert pan on plate to remove cakes. Serve warm..
Topping ideas: powdered sugar, drizzle frosting, ice cream, drizzle flavored syrup, whipped topping..

A incredibly indulgent - yet easy! - dessert which can be made in your Instant Pot. Chocolate Lava Cake is the ultimate holiday dessert. These chocolate lava cakes are baked in a pre-heated oven at a higher temperature than what you'd normally use for cakes. Chocolate Lava Cakes are ultra right, decadent, and gourmet but surprisingly simple! Make them for Valentine's Day this year, just follow the video to see how they're made.