Chocolate Lava Muffins

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 1 dozen
  • Total: 32 min
  • Prep: 20 min
  • Inactive: 1 min
  • Cook: 11 min
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Ingredients

8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

1 stick butter

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup sugar

3 tablespoons flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 eggs

Butter, to coat muffin tin

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

1 cup vanilla ice cream

1 teaspoon espresso powder

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Place a small metal bowl over a saucepan with simmering water. Melt the chocolate and butter in the bowl. Stir in vanilla.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, flour and salt. Sift these into the chocolate and mix well with electric hand mixer. Add eggs one at time, fully incorporating each egg before adding the next. Beat at high until batter is creamy and lightens in color, approximately 4 minutes. Chill mixture.
  4. Coat the top and each cup of the muffin tin with butter. Dust with the cocoa powder and shake out excess. Spoon mixture into pan using a 4-ounce scoop or ladle. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes. Outsides should be cake-like and centers should be gooey.
  5. While muffins are in oven, melt the ice cream in a small saucepan. Stir in the espresso powder. Serve over warm muffins.

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Dacia D.

Ok, I failed the first batch of this and over cooked it. Urgh. So, I tossed them and read the reviews; please read them before you start! I added a little less than 1tbsp of flour since I had already wasted some of the batter.  I baked a total of 14 mins.  I was worried it wasn’t “cooked” enough, but it was awesome.  It’s not going to have that dark brown color, so be prepared for that.  The only thing i will try different on the next go around is NOT adding more sugar.  It was pretty sweet for my taste.  But the different from over baking to baking just right was totally worth throwing away the first batch! 

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