Molten Chocolate Cakes, also known as Lava Cakes, are warm individual-size chocolate cakes with oozing chocolate centres. Molten chocolate is a unique combination of a traditional chocolate cake and a soufflé. Although the center is liquid, the internal temperature still reaches 160ºF.
It was reported that chocolatier Jean-Georges Vongerichten invented the dish in New York in 1987. According to Vongerichten, he accidentally pulled a chocolate sponge cake out of the oven before it was finished and discovered a runny center. It was so delicious that he decided to invent a cake that was intentionally molten in the center.
Molten chocolate cakes became famous for a reason: they're cakey on the outside with an irresistible center of warm dark chocolate flowing through the middle.
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes are a rich, decadent, gourmet dessert that are surprisingly easy and uncomplicated to make.
Molten chocolate
The word chocolate is derived from the Aztecs names for the tree, and for the drink they prepared from the beans. These words live on in Mexican today as ‘choclatl’ for the drink and ‘cacauatl’ for the tree. Chocolate was first cultivated as a crop, by ancient Mesoamerican peoples. They used cacao beans to create a frothy chocolate drink flavored with spices.
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