Chocolate Lava Pudding

I’ve lost count of how many times I have made this and it never fails to complete a meal. A delicious mess of cake and dark chocolate goo that bursts out when hit with a spoon! These are great served with fresh, halved strawberries and double cream.

Ingredients

• 150g of good quality dark chocolate (at least 72% cocoa).
• 150g of salted Butter
• 85g of sugar (caster sugar is best)
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 3 Whole Eggs
• 1 Tablespoon of Plain Flour
• Double Cream (optional)
• Strawberries (optional)

Preparation

• Heat your oven to about 180 degrees (C).
• Break the chocolate into small chunks.
• Break the butter into small chunks.
• Bring a pan of water to the boil.
• Grease some small oven safe pots with butter (I use ramekins as they are the right size for these puddings).
• Hull and halve the strawberries if you using them.

Method

1. Put the chocolate, butter and sugar into a bowl and put it over a saucepan of water. I have a steamer and so I usually but the bowl into a steamer basket and cover it.
2. Stir the mixture occasionally until it’s all melted together and is a uniform colour with no butter floating around.
3. Tip the mixture into a bigger bowl and add the whole eggs and the separated egg yolks.
4. Add the flour.
5. Mix everything together using a whisk.
6. Pour the mixture evenly into the pots.
7. Put the pots on a baking tray and put them on the middle shelf of your oven for seven or eight minutes.
8. Take them out of the oven, cover in double cream and some strawberries and serve.

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