Chocolate Lava Cakes with Candied Ginger for Dessert
Cakes & Cookies · Dessert · Let’s Eat the World · Provencal RecipesDessert does not need to be complicated, but it should be delicious. These little chocolate lava cakes are just the right size to satisfy a sweet tooth without being decadent.
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Chocolate mendiant tart is dark as night; each delicious bite filled with mysterious bites of dried fruit, nuts.
Dessert for a special occasion a chocolate banana charlotte.
Chocolate macarons with chocolate ganache are a sweet French treat.

Chocolate Lava Cake with Candied Ginger
Easy, tasty and delicious a dessert for chocolate lovers.
Ingredients
- 150 g (5 oz) Dark chocolate 55% minimum
- 150 g (5 oz) butter
- 150 g (5 oz) Sugar
- 5 eggs
- 75 g (2.5 oz) flour
- 30 g (1 oz) butter for the moulds
- 30 g (1 oz) sugar for the moulds
- 60 g (2 oz) candied ginger
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate with the butter (in a double boiler or slowly in the microwave), add the sugar, mix well, add the eggs, mix well, add the flour mix well.
- Butter and sugar coat your little molds.
- Fill them up with the chocolate mixture and keep in the fridge for at least one hour (or up to 3 days).
- Cut your ginger into small pieces, and spread on top of the cakes just before baking.

- Preheat the oven to 180C (400F) and cook your cake for 8 minutes.
- Let rest 8 more minutes in the pan on a cooking rack.
- Then flip them over to unmold and serve.
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