Melt In Your Mouth Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe

Chocolate lava cake is the ultimate dessert. It’s a showstopper, moist cake that has an oozing chocolate center. Your guests will go crazy over this recipe! Chocolate is everyone’s favorite when it comes to dessert. Try these brownies, peanut butter cups, and this fantastic pie if you love chocolate.

Chocolate Lava Cake

Hey, there, fellow chocolate lover! If there was a dessert that celebrated chocolate in all its glory, it’s this one. It’s so fancy and something that my kids want to order every time they see it on a menu at a restaurant! I’m talking about a nice crust on the outside, and as you cut into it, there’s flowing melty chocolate that oozes out. This moist cake has a perfect consistency. Legend has it that a chef once wanted to make mini chocolate cakes. When he was ready to serve them, he realized that they were underbaked in the center. He ended up serving them anyway, and the dessert came to be called chocolate lava cake. The guests enjoyed it! These are simple to make and delightful to eat! Try them out. You may just end up with a new go-to dessert for all of your dinner parties!

Ingredients for Chocolate Lava Cake

This list of ingredients is pretty simple and you won’t believe how easy it is to make these homemade lava cakes. See the recipe card at the bottom of the post for exact measurements.

Eggs: You will use whole eggs and egg yolks in this recipe. I like to make sure that my eggs are at room temperature when I start mixing the batter. Sugar: You don’t have to use too much sugar to make this recipe delicious and sweet! Chocolate: You can use dark or milk chocolate for these desserts. they both tastedelicious, it’s just a personal preference of what you like better. Butter: Use unsalted butter that is at room temperature for this recipe. Vanilla extract: This brings out the sweet flavors in the cake. Cocoa powder: The cocoa powder will amplify that choclatey taste. Flour: All purpose flour works great for this recipe.

Let’s Bake a Cake!

These chocolate lava cakes are baked in a pre-heated oven at a higher temperature than what you would normally use for cakes. And that’s because you want a crust formed on the outside and have the center to still remain soft and gooey.

Refrigerate: You can make the batter and refrigerate it for a few hours. When you are ready to serve, just bake it in the oven for 15-18 minutes and you are ready to go.

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All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.