Comments on: Molten Chocolate Cake

By: Mötesrapport · ~derfian

Mötesrapport · ~derfian — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:19:09 +0000

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By: links for 2007-09-02 at molgar.net

links for 2007-09-02 at molgar.net — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:25:27 +0000

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By: rob

rob — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:47:03 +0000

I cooked this tonight, as best as I was able. I used caster sugar instead of icing (powdered) sugar, due to some confusion over what icing sugar actually was (!), and I used some “softened” butter (ie butter+canola) when I ran out of actual butter. Finally, I had no ramekins, so I used a large muffin tin.

It worked well, more or less, though a muffin tin is a horrible thing to use with anything with this much egg. The bottoms stuck to the tin so I ended up with some volcano-like chocolately masses. My wife (chocoholic AND pregnant) said they were great though, so I’m going to get some ramekins soon and try again for a proper dinner party.

Oh also, we had them with thickened cream rather than icing sugar. We found it took the edge off the sweetness each cake already had.

By: Philip Hofstetter

Philip Hofstetter — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:41:34 +0000

Hi,

I don’t really like chocolate. But my girlfriend does so I’ve forwarded her the recipe. And while I was preparing the rest of the meal, she was busy creating 12 of these cakes for a party.

You are right: It’s pretty easy to make and it tastes great - at least if you like chocolate :-)

Thanks for the post!

Philip
PS: Remind me, please,… what does this have to do with GNOME? Not that I’m complaining. I’m always happy to find more stuff to cook.

By: fraggle

fraggle — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:43:35 +0000

My (Italian) girlfriend makes this all the time. It’s great :-D

By: barisione

barisione — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:24:06 +0000

@Julien:
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is considered the creator of this cake in the USA but Jacques Torres says that such a dish already existed in France, see Molten chocolate cake on Wikipedia.

@Interested:
Yes, two eggs (yolks + white) and two yolks.

By: Interested

Interested — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:32:55 +0000

Does the recipe call for two eggs (including yolks) and two additional yolks? Thanks!

By: sílvia

sílvia — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:58:52 +0000

I wanted to add this recipe to the GNOME Cookbook too :) Too bad my oven is broken at the moment… oh well

Great cake :)

By: Julien

Julien — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:17:36 +0000

I dont think it’s “created” by Jean-Georges Vongerichten. For me it looks like the well known “melting chocolate”. It is about the same except that you put cold chocolate (dark or milk) not chopped inside the cream in each ramekin. After baking into the oven, the inside is almost liquid.
Cheers

By: Tim Riley

Tim Riley — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:52:41 +0000

I have never cooked a cake before, nor ever been very interested in doing so… but after seeing this picture and the simple recipe, I will make me a molten chocolate cake this weekend! Thanks for sharing!