Chocolate Lava Cake

I decided to make this chocolate cake for my boys instead of the usual sandwich bento, hope that they would like it.  And doesn’t this cake look sweet when served in this cute bear plate. :D

I chanced upon this recipe here. Its a really simple cake to bake and it only took me 30 minutes from preparation to complete baking.

Ingredients (makes three 6-oz ramekin cakes) - 100g dark chocolate (example, Cadbury Old Gold 70% cocoa), cut to small cubes - 100g unsalted butter, cut to small cubes - 2 eggs - 50g caster sugar - 20g self-raising flour To decorate (optional) - icing sugar and small sieve - berries - vanilla ice cream Additional tools needed - spatula - electric whisk (hand-held) - oven safe ramekins (6-8 oz) Directions 1. Melt dark chocolate and butter using either the microwave or a double boiler (note: do not use direct stove heat or the ingredients will burn). 2. In a large bowl, use an electric whisk (you can whisk by hand too but it’s more tedious) to beat the eggs and sugar till the mixture turns pale and frothy. This will take a few minutes. 3. Pour melted chocolate/butter you prepared in step 1, into the egg mixture prepared in step 2. Stir in the flour. Use a spatula to mix everything evenly. 4. Grease your ramekins with some melted butter (so that the cake will come off cleanly when it is baked). Fill the ramekin almost 3/4 full with the chocolate mixture and bake in a preheated oven of 180C for about 10 minutes. The cake is deliberately slightly undercooked so as to achieve its ideal consistency which is runny in the middle (hence the name fondant/molten/chocolate lava) but if you over-bake it, you will get a super moist chocolate cake which is yummy too. 5. When it is baked, remove ramekin from oven and let cool for 1-2 minutes. Use a spoon to gently loosen the edges. Carefully invert the cake onto serving plate.

Did you see the chocolate oozing out of the cake. It’s simply yummy!!!