Chocolate Gooey Cake
We recently hosted a Portuguese themed dinner party at our home. For dessert, I was searching for a recipe to recreate a chocolate cake I had in Lisbon. The recipe I was looking for was for a wetter type cake - not a molten lava cake, but not a mousse. The outside was more like a cake with a gooey center. I stumbled upon Nigella Lawson’s Glitzy Chocolate Pudding and knew I needed to make it. While they weren’t exactly the same as what I had Lisbon, they were fantastic. They have just enough flour in them to make them cake like, but the center doesn’t fully set, so it does have that gooey consistency (but not runny like a lava cake). Topping the cakes with a warm chocolate sauce and crushed crunchie bars gives you an impressive treat with minimal effort.
Key Ingredients
Dark Chocolate - Use a good dark chocolate, preferably 70% or higher (I prefer Scharffen Berger and Callebaut)
Butter
Flour - Use all-purpose flour. I recommend weighing your flour. It’s more accurate.
Cane Sugar - also known as Caster Sugar.
Baking Soda - or bicarbonate soda as it’s called here in Sweden (I prefer Arm and Hammer)
Eggs - use large eggs, room temperature
Cadbury Crunchie Bar - if you can’t find crunchie bars, you can substitute any honeycomb candy, also known as hot air, sponge candy, or angel food candy.
How to make chocolate gooey cake
Preheat oven to 350F or 180C
Break up chocolate bar and melt with butter in micorwave, stirring until smooth.
Combine eggs and sugar in bowl. Using a hand mixer (or freestanding mixer) beat together until thick, pale, and mousse like.
Fold in flour, baking soda, and salt
Fold in cooled chocolate mixture and pour evenly into 8 ramekins
Bake for 25 Minutes in oven on a sheet pan.
Make glaze by melting butter and chocolate and whisking until smooth.
Crush Crunchie bar with rolling pin into fine bits.
Top each cake with glaze and sprinke with crunchie topping.
Tools to make the cake
8 oven safe ramekins
Hand or Stand Mixer
Mixing bowls
Digital scale
Measuring cups/spoons
Other ways to customise your cake
Top with Ice Cream
Replace chocolate glaze with Nutella
Top with raspberries or strawberries
If you try the recipe, tag me on social media (@mplsgirl) and let me know what you think!
