Choco Lava Cake

A cake with liquid chocolate in the center always made me curious on how one would bake such a thing. After having made this for the first time (and with success), I realized that it is the right baking technique that gives this cake the form. Although I must admit, this is a cake only for the special occasion as you can get your sugar levels very high!
Long long ago, when pizza was my favorite Wednesday dinner, I always used to order the chocolava cake as a side from dominos and would be in awe looking at the chocolate ooze from the cake. It somehow seemed very difficult to do. But having learnt the recipe, I must admit, this was definitely a "cake" walk 😊

Recipe: 

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour (Maida) or Pancake Mix - 1 cup
Cocoa - 4 tbsp
Sugar - 0.5 cup (powdered)
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 cup
Chocolate squares - 6
Butter - 4 tsp

Oil - 1 tsp (for greasing the molds)


Preparation:

1. In a bowl, add the pancake mix, cocoa, sugar, baking powder and mix well.
2. Add half cup milk and mix it thoroughly.
3. Take the chocolate squares and butter in another bowl and microwave it. Add this liquefied mixture to the above cocoa mix and stir well. (If you don't want to liquefy the chocolate squares, you can also place them in the mold after pouring the mixture from step 2 - be sure to add butter to the mixture though).
4. Add the remaining milk and make it a smooth texture.
5. Grease the molds with oil and pour this mixture into each mold. I had 1 ceramic container at home and I handmade 4 aluminium molds using these steps which I found to be very creative and enjoyed making them.
6. Preheat the oven at 355 F for 10 mins. Once the oven preheats, place the filled molds into it.
7. Bake for 12 minutes. After that taken the molds out and let it cool down for 3 mins. Tear away the aluminium foil for the aluminium molds and keep the cake on a plate. For the ceramic one, slide a knife through the side so that the cake comes off easily and then invert it onto a plate, tap it gently and the cake should come off.

When you cut the cake, you should see the chocolate oozing out. Yum!!

Chocolava cake is ready to be served.