Melting moments chocolate cakes
Melting moments chocolate cakes recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1/2 cup, 1 stick, butter
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, not unsweetened
- 2 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
- Cocoa for dusting
- Sweetened whipped cream
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Butter and six 4 ounces ramekins and lightly dust with cocoa.
- Tap out the excess cocoa.
- Set the ramekins on a cookie sheet.
- In microwave, melt butter with the chocolate.
- Remove and stir every 30 seconds until chocolate and butter have melted.
- Set this to the side to cool.
- In a medium bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs, egg yolks and sugar at high speed until the egg mixture is thickened and pale yellow in color.
- Whisk the chocolate until smooth.
- Fold the cooled chocolate mixture into the eggs along with the flour.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared ramekins and bake for 12 minutes.
- Let the cakes cool for 1 minute, then cover each with an inverted dessert plate.
- Carefully turn each one over and let stand for 10 seconds, then unmold.
- Serve at once with sweetened whipped cream
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