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Chocolate Lava Cake
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Chocolate Lava Cake

The legendary restaurant dessert warm chocolate cake with a flowing liquid centre.

⌛ 30 min 📈 Medium ★ 4.9/5 📋 10 steps

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🍴 Ingredients

  • 200g dark 70% chocolate
  • 200g butter, plus extra for ramekins
  • 4 whole eggs
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 80g plain flour
  • Good quality vanilla ice cream to serve
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👨‍🍳 Instructions

1
Melt chocolate and butter together. Cool slightly.
2
Whisk whole eggs, yolks and icing sugar until pale and doubled in volume.
3
Fold egg mixture into chocolate.
4
Sift in flour and fold gently.
5
Butter and flour 6 ramekins.
6
Fill 3/4 full.
7
Refrigerate at this stage for up to 24 hours.
8
Bake at 425F for exactly 12 minutes.
9
Rest 1 minute, then invert onto plates.
10
Serve immediately with vanilla ice cream.
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