Tuesday 30 July 2013

Eggless Chocolate Lava Cake


Today evening, I sank in my rocking chair in our balcony and looked out to see lush tall green trees. What added to the experience was a cuppa of earl grey and hot molten lava cake. I have been planning to make this for a while and since monsoons began I had thought of this picture perfect moment in my mind tons of times. Finally, I made it today and enjoyed it exactly as I had imagined. As you sink your fork in the cake, a rich thick chocolate oozes out and you can hardly wait to gorge it all. It is gooey and moist and absolutely sinful, just like a chocolate cake should be :)  So, let me not keep you waiting, here comes the picture and then comes the recipe :)

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup chocolate
1/2 cup of condensed milk (I used milkmaid)
1/2 cup maida / all purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
¾ cup cream, lightly whipped
1 tsp vanilla essence
Few pieces of cooking chocolate- thin ones



Method:

1.       Sieve maida and baking powder and keep aside.
2.       Melt chocolate and butter together in a double boiler. In case you don’t have it, melt them in a bowl placing it on top of a big vessel with some water, on a medium flame. Pre heat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.
3.       When they melt into a smooth chocolate sauce, add condensed milk and vanilla essence. Give a good stir.
4.       Now, take it off the heat and add maida, little by little and whisk to get a smooth batter. Make sure there are no lumps.
5.       Fill the lined ramekins or oven-safe bowls halfway. Place the cooking chocolate pieces in center of the batter and make sure the chocolate is covered with batter and doesn’t jut out.
6.       Bake for 15-20 minutes.
7.       Let it cool down for 10-15 minutes and un-mound in a dessert plate. You can serve it with ice-cream or serve it alone.

 



8.    Now, sink in your fork and enjoy the sin called chocolate lava cake :)


4 comments:

  1. Absolutely delicious, love the chocolate oozing out.

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  2. Looks so yummy.....but i have one query. ..u have mentioned cream in the ingredients but no mention of it in the preparation. ..when should the cream be added

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  3. hi Gits. thank you! Whipped cream is an accompaniment, not used in the recipe. I think I missed mentioning it.

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