Lava Cupcakes
I love lava cakes and have been toying with the idea of them for a bit, when I thought, what about a cupcake that splits open and pours chocolate? That’s how we landed here. I made this up as I went, and after looking at how to make the chocolate center inside my candy bar wrapper, we got started. It was a short but tasty adventure.
Ingredients
1 box chocolate cake mix
3 eggs
1 cup water
1/3 cup veggie oil
1 60% dark chocolate melting bar
3 tbls butter
1/4 cup milk
Powdered sugar as desired
Pinch of salt
Prep
Add the salt and chocolate bar to a bowl
Add the milk to a pot and simmer it. Do not let it boil. That’s how you get a smell you do not want. That’s how you get terrible things. You want the milk warm without separating and bubbling all over the place.
Pour the milk over the chocolate and grab a whisk
Count to at least 20 then start whisking until the chocolate has melted completely and mixed in
Add the butter and mix it in, as well
Shove all this into the fridge for a couple hours to harden just enough to be malleable
Go watch a TV show or something
After a couple hours, set the oven to 350 F
Grab the chocolate and use a scoop, (I used a tablespoon spoon) and scoop small balls. I got about 22 of them, you could get 24 (the number of cupcakes 1 box mix makes) but as I’ll explain later, you’ll want them probably a bit bigger. One bar could comfortably make the 24 but I’m sloppy and not careful enough for meticulous amounts. This will start to melt with your body heat. Expect a mess. It’ll be like fondling chocolate ice cream.
Put the balls onto wax paper on a tray. When you’re out of chocolate, stick this in the freezer until later.
Follow the box to make the cupcake mix
Add the paper boats to cupcake pans
Scoop a smaller (around half or less recommended amount) into the cupcake boats, making sure you have quite a bit left
Grab the chocolate balls and add one per cupcake, try not to press down so that it doesn’t go to the bottom
Cover them with the rest of the mix
Bake found ~18 minutes or until it seems to be done
Grab a sifter if you have it and shake powdered sugar on top
Serve while still hot to keep it molten
Afterthoughts
This was a delicious cupcake that was more moist and creamy than usual. The few I ate though had the smaller chocolate balls and they melted into the cupcake mix and just made for a tastier cupcake than a molten core. However, I was able to get a more molten core on the ones that had larger cores. This says that you should make larger cores and have less than the 24 cupcakes per bar. This would work otherwise. The taste nevertheless was similar to a lava cake without the harder exterior. A gooey molten core cupcake is a delicious surprise and served warm adds to the pleasure immensely. This would make a great party dish in the winter to warm folks up like hot chocolate.
