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Molten Chocolate Cakes

Fri, 04/13/2007 - 4:41pm by haze1nut
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Miniature Molten Chocolate cake topped with fresh whipped creamMiniature Molten Chocolate cake topped with fresh whipped cream

I used the little nut and party cups which are 3 1/4 oz. I think the texture was fine but too sweet? Made this a while ago so don't really recall but I do remember enjoying the sight of my fork tearing through it and 'molten chocolate' oozing out. I do remember that the 'cake' park was too cakey, i think i was hoping for something similar to a brownie texture but good nonetheless. I added some cinnamon to the whip cream and didn't sweeten it much. You can have it more "molten-y" by adjusting the cooking time. Next time I'll try Gale Gand's Molten Chocolate cakes, hers uses 6 egg yolks in addition to 6 eggs.
ALSO! Smiling a good idea would be to put a marshmallow inside the cakes before you cook them, that would be interesting Smiling

NOTE**: i totally forgot something, i recommend putting the mix into the fridge for at least an 2 hours. Doing this will result in a denser cake, just take from the fridge, pour into your cups or buttered ramekins and heat up! The time will allow for the mix to 'deflate' and chilling it will allow the center to more 'molten'. ENJOY!

-Hazel


Molten Chocolate Cakes

* 1 cup unsalted butter or unsalted margarine*
* 8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, or bars, cut into bite-size chunks
* 5 large eggs
* 1/2 cup sugar
* Pinch of salt
* 4 teaspoons flour (or matzo meal, ground in a blender to a fine powder)
* 8 extra-large paper muffin cups (or use regular paper muffin cups, which will make 12 cakes)

1. Melt butter and chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water; remove from heat. Beat eggs, sugar and salt with a hand mixer in a medium bowl until sugar dissolves. Beat egg mixture into chocolate until smooth. Beat in flour or matzo meal until just combined. (Batter can be made a day ahead; return to room temperature an hour or so before baking.)
2. Before serving dinner, adjust oven rack to middle position; heat oven to 450 degrees. Line a standard-size muffin tin (1/2 cup capacity) with 8 extra-large muffin papers (papers should extend above cups to facilitate removal). Spray muffin papers with vegetable cooking spray. Divide batter among muffin cups.
3. Bake until batter puffs but center is not set, 8 to 10 minutes. Carefully lift cakes from tin and set on a work surface. Pull papers away from cakes and transfer cakes to dessert plates.

Source: Allrecipes: Molten Chocolate Cakes With Sugar-Coated Raspberries

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  • 3

    That looks glorious! God... I'm getting addicted to baking again... don't encourage me with fantastic recipes!

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  • 4

    molten.chocolate... yuuuummmmm Drool

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  • 5

    mmmmmmmm chocolate mmmmmmmmm. Sounds really yummy. My oldest would be so happy if I made this for him. Thanks for posting.

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  • 13

    Drool YUMYUM!! Drool
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  • 14

    Those look fantastic! I love miniature cakes, i'm actually having a hard time finding those little nut cups - also weird timing, Party and I were just talking about miniature cupcakes inside of nut cups!

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  • 15

    Yum, i think i got these from amazon.com? i know chockylit from cupcake.com uses these for her cupcakes, they're great and you don't need a cupcake tin to use with these. just fill them up and set them on a cookie sheet in an oven and then that's about it. they come in 3 1/4 oz and the little tiny mini ones..1.5oz? ihave those too, they're like 2 small bites.

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  • 23

    this sounds delicious...my favorite part of eating at chilis are the molten chocolate cakes... Drool

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  • 24

    yeah! chillis has an awesome chocolate cake.....i just eat a small portion of my entree there to make room for the cake. lol. it's so good!

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  • 25

    ohh, these look good! I saved this to favorites, and I think I'm going to make them for the adult snacks at my son's birthday party coming up soon.

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  • 27

    I made these tonight, and have two questions for you. First, my nut cup thing seemed to burn a bit around the edges. Did that happen with yours? Also, they were kind of mushy instead of cakey and runny in the middle. Did you find that happened also? Other than that they were tasty, just not sure I did they quite right. Smiling

    1 year 3 weeks ago Report Comment
  • 28

    hmmm...mine were cakey. did you use cake flour? i used all purpose flour.
    Also! i totally forgot!
    you need to refrigerate these for 3hrs at least or chilled, this way the eggs will have a chance to deflate and it should be denser and the inside should be good

    1 year 2 weeks ago Report Comment
  • 29

    i mean mine weren't cakey, they were like pudding cake with molten centers and cakey crust on the outside.

    1 year 2 weeks ago Report Comment

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