This is for real deal chocolate lovers ! All others, need not apply. When it comes to the ooey gooey “lava” center the bigger the chocolate chunks the better.
MAKE IT GLUTEN FREE: sub potato starch for the flour.
Use great quality chocolate for the large center chunks like this one from Scharffen Berger.
A huge thank you to Chana Rochel for the best recipe ever!
5 Ingredient Chocolate Lava Cakes
Servings
8 Servings
Ingredients
- 1½ cups 200- 250g chocolate chips
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- ⅔ cup flour or potato starch
- 8 large squares of chocolate the bigger the better
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 8 ramekins with cooking spray.
- In a double boiler or microwave, melt chocolate chips and oil. Let cool.
- Whisk eggs. Add sugar and whisk well.
- Slowly stream and whisk cooled, melted chocolate into egg mixture.
- Gently mix and fold in flour until completely combined.
- Pour into greased ramekins or cupcake liners.
- Press a chunk of chocolate into each cupcake.
- Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes.
Sure you can freeze for sure. They are best warmed but not necessary, they are still good if you can’t heat them. And no the chocolate doesn’t harden it is just better warmed.
Can these be frozen? Do they need to be served warm? When they cool down, does the chocolate get hard?
When you issue your recipes, it would be helpful if you were to list the ingredients in the order in which they’re used. Also–to avoid confusion–when you have multiple types of an ingredient (e.g. chocolate in this case), it would be helpful if you indicated which type you’re using in each step (e.g. chocolate chips or chocolate squares).
Thanks we usually do both, not sure what happened on this recipe, I will fix it, thanks.
what size ramekins should be used…4, 6 or 8 oz, so to know how full, not too full to fill each one?
We like 4 ounce ramekins
For the squares of chocolate, are you using bitter? Bittersweet? Is it baking chocolate or candy bar chocolate?
we like semisweet chocolate, not specifically baking chocolate but plain