Chocolate Lava Cake
This is a Swedish-style chocolate lava cake recipe. The official ingredients are flour, butter, vanilla, eggs, cocoa, salt, and sugar. Mix the sugar with the eggs, vanilla, and salt, then add the cocoa and flour, followed by the melted butter. Pour the batter into a 20 cm pan lined with parchment paper and greased with a little butter. Bake the cake in a hot oven at 200°C for only 15 minutes, then serve hot. It can be decorated with powdered sugar or cocoa and served with cream and strawberries, as shown in the video.
A rich Swedish-style chocolate cake with a soft, gooey center.
Like a fudgy chocolate cake that stays soft in the middle.
Do not overbake it, or the center will lose its gooey texture.
Ingredients
- 150 g (1 cup and 1 tablespoon) Flour
- 100 g Butter
- 1½ teaspoons Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
- 4 tablespoons Cocoa
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 200 g (1 cup) Sugar
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add the sugar and eggs.
- In the same mixing bowl, add a pinch of salt and the vanilla.
- In the same mixing bowl, whisk the ingredients until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is smooth.
- In the same mixing bowl, add the cocoa and flour.
- In the same mixing bowl, whisk the mixture just until combined; it will become dry, then smooth.
- In the same mixing bowl, add the melted butter at the end.
- In the same mixing bowl, continue mixing until the batter is ready.
- Prepare a 20 cm round pan.
- Place parchment paper in the pan.
- In the same pan, grease it with a little butter.
- In the same pan, pour in the batter and spread it into an even layer.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Bake the cake in the center of the oven for only 15 minutes.
- After baking, remove the cake from the oven and keep it hot.
- After baking, transfer the cake to a serving plate.
- Decorate the top of the cake with powdered sugar or cocoa.
- On the serving plate, serve it with whipped cream if desired.
- On the serving plate, decorate it with three strawberries, as shown in the video.