Ganache
Chocolate Lava Cake -- Ganache
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
- 4 ounces dark semi-sweet chocolate
- 3 ounces heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons butter
Instructions
- Chop chocolate and place into metal bowl.
- Heat heavy cream and pour over chocolate.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Add butter and whisk again.
- Cool mixture in refrigerator, whisking every few minutes until the consistency resembles frosting.
- Fill a pastry bag with the ganache.
- Squeeze out portions about the size of a grape and put in freezer for later use.
Cake Batter
Chocolate Lava Cake -- Cake Batter
Author: Pizza Today
Ingredients
- 14 ounces dark semi-sweet chocolate
- 8 ounces butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 6 eggs, yolks separated
- 3 ounces flour, sifted
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 4 ounces sugar
- cocoa powder, for dusting
Instructions
- Chop chocolate and place into metal bowl.
- Add butter, then melt over a water bath. Promptly remove from heat once melted.
- Add vanilla extract and 3 egg yolks.
- Whisk until smooth, then add sifted flour. Incorporate flour into mixture as it is being added.
- Place 3 egg whites into a second metal bowl.
- Add salt and cream of tartar. Whip eggs until soft peaks form, then add sugar and continue to whisk.
- Fold approximately half of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture.
- Once well folded, repeat with second half of egg whites.
- Next, pour batter into butter ramekins that have been dusted with cocoa powder.
- Add a piece of the frozen ganache into the center of each cake batter.
- Bake at 375 F for 15 minutes.
- After removing from oven, let cool for 5 minutes before removing cakes from ramekins and placing on a wire rack to continue cooling.
- Serve chocolate lava cake warm, either alone or with vanilla ice cream.
