My brother ha a new food love – lava cake. Since my Aunt in Bulgaria serve some while during our stay in Burgas, he has been asking me to make it at home very often.

There is no big story behind this recipe, I just googled “lava cake” and tried the first recipe I found. Luckily, it turned out great and the cakes were a success. Success means: my brother ate 3 cakes for breakfast.

I made some in procelain and others in aluminium cups. The ones in the metal cups turned out better, somehow more fluffy. The secret to the liquid center is a watchful behaviour – check on your cakes every 3 minutes with a toothpicker; the centre should be liquid (I like it more the creamy way) and the edge done. Every oven is a bit different and the baking time also depends on the size, shape and material of your molds. But believe me, it is not difficult to succeed if you have an eye on these babies.

Lava Cakes

source: Backen-Mit-Spass.de

85 g (3 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate
85 g (3/8 cup) butter
3 eggs
80 g (3/8 cup) sugar
45 g (1 1/2 oz.) flour

Preheat the oven to 175°C (350°F).

Melt butter and chocolate in the microwave, heating not more than 30 seconds at once. Stir in between and microwave until the ingredients have completely melted.

Transfer the butter and chocolate mixture into a larger bowl and stir in the sugar. Then add the eggs and flour, combining everything well with a mixer.

Oil 4 molds (depending on their size, of course) and fill them up to 2/3 with dough. Bake in the oven until they reach the consistency you desire. The original recipe says about 8 to 10 minutes and the blogger in my source says 17, but I had cakes with a perfectly creamy centre after 14 minutes! So decide by yourself when to put them out.

Serve warm and definitely with a scoop of ice cream! :)