Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

Ingredients

Original recipe makes 4 Servings

	Cake Ingredients:
	1/4 cupchopped pecans or your favorite nuts
	2/3 cupchocolate baking chips
	1 ( I used semi-sweet)
	1/4 cup ofButter
	3 ozcream cheese (set out and let it get soft before u
	1/3 cupbrown sugar (firmly packed)
	3 Eggs
	1 teaspoonvanilla flavor
	1/4 cupall-purpose flour
	Topping ingredients:
	1 6-8 ripe strawberries (quartered lengthwise)
	1/4 chopped nuts
	2 teaspoonsPowdered sugar
	1/2 cup ofStrawberry and Blueberry Reduction (see recipe bel
	1 * if you don't want to make the reduction; you can use your favorite flavor ice cream topping
	1 Strawberry and Blueberry Reduction
	1/4 cup ofdiced strawberries
	1/4 cup offresh blueberries
	1 1/2 cups ofWater
	1/2 Granulated Sugar

Calories Per Serving: 673
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Molten Chocolate Lava Cake Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

2. Grease the ramekin dishes. I used butter for this. Be sure to get a generous amount on the bottom and sides of the dishes. Make sure you have butter in the seam where the walls and bottom meet. To me, this is the most important step in the recipe. If the cakes stick to the dishes after being cooked, they will bust open when you place them on the plate.

3. In a microwave safe bowl, combine the chocolate chips and butter. Microwave for 1 minute stirring every 20 seconds until both items are melted and smooth. Add the cream cheese and mix with your mixer until smooth.

4. In a second mixing bowl, add the eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla. Mix with mixer until well mixed.

5. Add the chocolate mix and continue mixing until smooth. With mixer on low, slowly add the flour. Continue mixing until well mixed.

6. Sprinkle the nuts evenly on the bottom of your ramekin dishes.

7. Divide the batter among the four ramekin dishes, filling each to 70% capacity.

8. Place ramekin dishes on a non-greased baking dish and place in the oven.

9. Bake cakes for twelve minutes or until the tops are puffy and cracked. Some ovens cook a little faster than others. If the tops have cracked open and feel a little firm, then they are ready.

10. Remove cakes from the oven and let cook for 5-10 minutes.

11. Mix whipping cream and powdered sugar together until stiff peaks form.

12. Fill a piping bag with the whipped cream and place in the fridge.

13. Using a thin small knife, cut around the sides of each cake to release it from the ramekin dish.

14. Place your desert plate on top of the ramekin dish and invert both items at the same time.

15. Slowly remove the ramekin dish. This should leave the cake standing upside down in the middle of your plate.

16. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top of the cake and around the plate.

17. Use your piping bag and run a layer of whipped cream around the edge of the cake and then add a small amount in the middle of the top of the cake.

18. Place four slices of strawberries in the corners of your plate and stand one slice in the middle of the cream on the top of the cake.

19. Drizzle the reduction sauce or your favorite ice cream topping around the plate.