Old-Fashioned Individual Chocolate Cakes
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 12 oz. bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, cut into small pieces
- 1 stick (8 oz.) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 2 cups strong, hot coffee
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- Confectioners sugar, for dusting
- Fresh raspberries, for garnish, optional
- Whisk together flour and baking soda in large bowl.
- Set aside.
- Combine chocolate and butter in medium heat-proof bowl.
- Pour hot coffee over chocolate-butter mixture, and stir until chocolate and butter have melted.
- Set aside until mixture is cool to touch.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Line 28 muffin pan cups with paper liners.
- Beat eggs in large bowl with electric mixer until frothy; add sugar, and beat 1 to 2 minutes, or until mixture turns pale yellow color.
- Fold in half of cooled chocolate mixture, then half of flour mixture.
- Repeat with remaining chocolate mixture and remaining flour mixture.
- Fill prepared muffin pan cups three-quarters full, and bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes in muffin pan, then unmold, and cool completely on wire rack.
- Dust with confectioners sugar, and garnish with berries, if using.
flour, baking soda, bittersweet, unsalted butter, coffee, eggs, sugar, confectioners sugar, fresh raspberries
Taken from www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/old-fashioned-individual-chocolate-cakes/ (may not work)