Double Choco Lava Cakes
- 34 cup butter
- 6 ounces semisweet chocolate pieces (1 cup)
- 3 eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- 13 cup sugar
- 1 12 teaspoons vanilla
- 13 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 13 cup pecan halves, toasted
- 12 cup sugar
- 13 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons dark corn syrup
- 12 cup whipping cream
- Preheat oven to 400F Lightly grease and flour six 1- to 1 1/4-cup souffle dishes or six 10-ounce custard cups.
- Place souffle dishes or custard cups in a shallow baking pan and set pan aside.
- In a heavy small saucepan melt butter and semisweet chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and cool.
- Meanwhile, prepare Praline Sauce; cover and keep warm until needed.
- In a large mixing bowl beat eggs, egg yolks, sugar, and vanilla with an electric mixer on high speed about 5 minutes or until thick and lemon colored.
- Beat in cooled chocolate mixture on medium speed.
- Sift flour and cocoa over chocolate mixture; beat on low speed just until combined.
- Divide batter evenly into prepared dishes or cups.
- Bake 10 minutes.
- Pull cakes out of oven.
- Using a small spatula or table knife, puncture top of each partially-baked cake and gently enlarge to make a dime-sized hole.
- Slowly spoon about 1 tablespoon Praline Sauce into center of each cake.
- Return cakes to oven.
- Bake 5 minutes more or until cakes feel firm at the edges.
- Cool in dishes on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
- Using a small spatula or knife, loosen cake edges from sides of dish or cup and slip cake out upright onto individual dessert plates.
- Stir 1/3 cup toasted pecan halves into the remaining Praline Sauce.
- If necessary, stir 1 to 2 tablespoons hot water into remaining sauce to thin.
- Spoon warm Praline Sauce on top of cakes.
- Top with pecan halves and sweetened whipped cream.
- Serve immediately.
- Makes 6 servings.
- Praline Sauce: In a heavy medium saucepan combine 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup packed brown sugar and 2 tablespoons dark colored corn syrup.
- Stir in 1/2 cup whipping cream.
- Cook over medium-high heat until boiling, stirring constantly to dissolve sugar.
- Reduce heat.
- Cook, uncovered, 10 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally.
- Makes 1 cup sauce.
butter, chocolate, eggs, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, flour, cocoa, pecan halves, sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, whipping cream
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/double-choco-lava-cakes-252321 (may not work)