Chocolate Chocolate Desserts and Recipes.

Ingredients :

• 6 oz. Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate (or use your favorite 70% dark chocolate bar)
• 6 oz. Butter (diced, room temperature)
• 3 Eggs
• 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
• 1/3 cup Flour
• Butter for Ramekins

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°F

• Melt chocolate on low flame in a bain-marie (double boiler). When melted, take of flame, and…
• Stir in diced butter, until it melts.
• In another bowl, beat eggs and sugar, until it starts to whiten.
• Stir in melted chocolate and then the flour.
• Butter 4 individual ramekins, and pour in chocolate batter.
• Cook for about 10 minutes.
• Tip ramekins upside down onto dessert plates and serve.

Tips:

• You can definitely prepare your chocolate lava cake recipe ahead of time, and then bake 10 minutes before serving. I always do it this way!
• In terms of buttering the ramekins: butter the bottoms first, and then butter the sides, wiping from the bottom up to the top. It helps the chocolate to rise even more.
• In terms of baking time… well, it depends on how runny you want it! I like it with a super-liquid-oozing center -- so do my guests! For this, you want the top to be cooked through, but the center to be liquid. You can check with a toothpick after 10 minutes of baking.
• If you don't like liquid-center chocolate desserts, just cook for a little longer, and you will have an incredibly moist chocolate cake. So, either way, you can't go wrong!

Variations:

You can serve your chocolate lava cake recipe with a Crème Anglaise (English Cream) or aCoulis aux Framboises (Raspberry Sauce).