Eggless Chocolate Lava Cake / Easy Molten Chocolate Cake
Eggless chocolate lave cake is a rich chocolaty muffin size cake with melting chocolate inside. This molten chocolate cake is very easy to prepare and healthier than the domino's molten lava cake.
Ingredients
- 60 gm whole wheat flour
- 40 gm sugar
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp milk powder
- 15 ml oil
- 20 gm butter (unsalted)
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- ½ tbsp vinegar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ cup + 1 tbsp hot water (140 ml)
- 100 gm dark chocolate
Instructions
- Take 5 ramekins, grease them with butter and dust with cocoa powder. Put them aside.
- Preheat oven at 200 degrees Celsius for about 10-15 minutes.
- Chopped chocolate into big chunks.
- In a bowl, add oil, butter, sugar, and vanilla essence. Beat well for 2- 3 minutes till they become light and fluffy.
- Now put a sieve on the bowl and sift wheat flour, cocoa powder, milk powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Mix it with the cut and fold method.
- Add hot water gradually to make a medium-thin batter.
- Finally, add vinegar, mix well.
- Immediately pour batter into ramekin bowls. Add chocolate chunks and push them inside in the batter so they will immerse in it.
- Tap them a few times to remove air bubbles.
- Place on a baking tray and put in the preheated oven.
- Bake them for 10-11 minutes and then take them out from the oven.
- Immediately, de-mould the cake and transfer to a plate. Do it carefully as the bowl is very hot. Cut the cake from the centre you will see the lava coming out.
- Enjoy them warm.
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Notes
1. Do not chop the chocolate into fine pieces. Cut it into big chunks.
2. Always preheat the oven for at least 10-15 minutes.
3. Do not over mix the batter.
4. After the batter is ready, pour them immediately into the ramekins bowl and place them in the oven.
5. Bake the cake only for 10-11 minutes. Overbaking makes the chocolate hard and you will not see hot melted lava coming out.
6. De-mould the choco lava cake carefully as they are very hot.
7. Always use fresh ingredients to the get best results.
8. Do not use ready to eat chocolate or choco chips for this recipe as they contain high sugar content that becomes caramelized on high heat do not melt easily while baking.