Well it is the day after Valentines Day once again and I surely hope that whomever or whatever you spent your day and night with made you the happiest of happy. For those who spent the evening out at dinner with either your loved ones or best friends or family I hope that the dinner blew your mind! For some reason my husband and I are really bad at Valentines Day plans. It doesn't matter what city or state we are in but I am always the last possible person to try and make a reservation ANYWHERE! The history of our dates are quite comical...so this year I decided (after not being able to find a reservation 3 weeks in advance. WTF Oklahoma....why do you all need to make a reservation 3 weeks in advance?) that I was going to take over the dinner responsibility for the night and cook a bomb dinner. scallops for me, steak and shrimp for the hubs and then desert....let's be real the most important part of the meal.
I am going to go ahead and throw it out there that if you want to impress someone with your mad skills in the kitchen this recipe for Chocolate Molten Cake will do the trick!!
First of all...its a freaking molten cake. Which means you will look at the outside of this perfectly shaped decadent looking chocolate cake and already be so excited to dig it and then.....you will cut into it and there on the inside is a beautiful warm chocolate pudding that will run out and cover the berries that youve adorned the plate with or collide with the vanilla ice cream that you've served on the side...or wine...everything is better with wine. Am I right?! ;) This desert is not only impressive to look at and eat but it will impress you that it is possibly the easiest thing you'll ever make. Like easier than a box cake or bag cookie recipe. It is insane!!!
The cast of ingredients include:
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
12 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
5 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup flour
Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. First you need to brush the inside of a cupcake tin with melted butter && then take a little sifter and dust the tins with cocoa powder to ensure that your perfect little cakes don't stick to the pan. Next put the first 3 ingredients [chocolate chips, butter & cream] in a microwave safe bowl and let those go for about 30 seconds. It will be the most beautiful chocolate ganache like sauce and fill your kitchen with a decadent smell.
After your chocolate mixture has cooled slightly we will add the last 3 ingredients. Yep that;s right...only 6 ingredients!! Make sure the mixture is cooled down because hot chocolate + eggs = scrambled chocolate eggs. EWW. After you have all these ingredients mixed [whisked] together so that they are totally incorporated you can pour the batter into the muffin tins. Put the muffin tin in the fridge for at least an hour up to overnight. Make this first before the rest of your dinner or before you get ready to go out for dinner that way when you are done eating or get back from a restaurant all you have to do is take the tray out of the fridge and pop it into the oven. These little cakes only need 10 minutes to bake. Perfect amount of time to get out some plates, drop some berries & ice cream on them and pour the champs.
Once the cakes are done baking a short 10 minutes later they need to cool for just a couple minutes before the big dismount...as I like to call it. You will take a cookie sheet and put it on top of the muffin tin and flip it over and WAH LA: the most amazing individual chocolate deserts. I say individual because they are meant to be just that..individual. I am about all kinds of sharing, especially with my hubs but when it comes to the perfect bite of warm chocolate cake|pudding the only thing that could ruin this moment is when I get the perfect bite on my fork & my husband reaches over and uses his fork to scrape off that perfect bite and put it on his and then eat it...with a smile. I cant.
[insert straight face emoji] I do this baking stuff for you people & hopefully these individual cakes will save you from that moment that you contemplate stabbing your husband with your fork.
There you have it...this Chocolate Molten Cake will rock your world and forever change the way you look at deserts. I hope you all can make this for your loved one on your next date night and/or holiday!
XO.
Elizabeth
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