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Molten Lava Cakes are delicious treats baked with chocolate, butter, sugar and eggs. It is the way you put all these ingredients together and how long you bake them that makes the lava seep out of the center of these delicious cakes.

Molten Lava Cakes

Dina Driggs
Molten Lava Cakes are delicious treats baked with chocolate, butter, sugar and eggs. It is the way you put all these ingredients together and how long you bake them that makes the lava seep out of the center of these delicious cakes.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 4 oz. Milk Chocolate Chips
  • 2 oz. Dark Chocolate Chips
  • 1/2 Cup Butter
  • 1 1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar divided
  • 3 Eggs
  • 3 Egg Yolks
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla
  • 1/2 Cup Flour
  • 1/2 tsp. Salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400°.
  • Melt chocolate and butter in a microwave.
  • Whisk together eggs and egg yolks.
  • Mix 1/2 cup of powdered sugar into chocolate butter mixture.  Add the vanilla.
  • Temper the eggs with the chocolate.
  • Sift the flour, salt, powdered sugar together.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the chocolate/egg mixture and mix well.
  • Heavily grease muffin wells.
  • Pour batter into muffin wells.
  • Bake for 12 minutes.
  • Cool for 10 minutes.
  • Loosen cakes and turn over on a cookie sheet.
  • Dust with powdered sugar and serve with ice cream.
Keyword Butter, Chocolate, Eggs, Sugar
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