Chocolate Molten Cake
- Clarified butter
- Cocoa powder
- 7 ounces Valrhona extra-bitter chocolate
- 7 tablespoons soft butter
- 6 eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup cake flour
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 10 to 12 ounces Valrhona semi-sweet chocolate
- Bay leaf sauce (recipe follows
- BAY LEAF SAUCE
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 vanilla bean
- 4 fresh bay leaves
- Gather together 10 to 12 2-inch-high cake rings.
- Cut strips of parchment paper 1 inch wider than the rings.
- Brush both sides of parchment strips with clarified butter.
- Fit inside of cake rings.
- Coat inside of rings with cocoa powder and set aside on a sheet pan.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Melt extra-bitter chocolate over double boiler.
- Whisk softened butter into melted chocolate.
- Remove chocolate mixture from heat and whisk in egg yolks, 1 at a time.
- Sift flours together and fold into chocolate mixture.
- Beat egg whites to soft peaks and add confectioners' sugar.
- Whisk 1/3 of egg mixture into chocolate mixture.
- Fold in remaining whites in 2 additions.
- Pipe a 1/2-inch layer of cake batter into the bottom of each cocoa-coated cake ring.
- Freeze until cake batter becomes stiff.
- Approximately 3 to 5 minutes.
- Put a 1-inch piece semi-sweet chocolate in each cake ring atop the stiffened cake batter.
- Pipe in enough cake batter to cover the chocolate piece.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes.
- Afterwards, allow cake to rest for one minute.
- Serve with whipped cream and Bay leaf sauce.
- Boil sugar and water.
- Put in vanilla bean, cut in half lengthwise and scraped, and bay leaves into boiling mixture.
- Allow to infuse for at least on hour, (off of heat) and then, remove bean and leaves.
- Keep sauce refrigerated.
- Yield: 1 1/2 cups sauce
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chocolate-molten-cake-recipe.html (may not work)