Choco Lava Cake Recipe

Choco Lava Cake Recipe with step-by-step pictures and a recipe video. Hello Friends, today I am going to show you all the recipe for chocolate lava cake in pressure cooker. This is a type of cupcake, that when you bite into or cut with a spoon, you get a sensational surprise of molten chocolate oozing out.  This is one favourite treat for my children, and the whole combination of textures and tastes makes it an amazing party cake, or the perfect kitty party dessert.

The first time I had chocolate lava cake, was perhaps in KFC or Dominoes (I don’t quite remember, but it was either of them) when these outlets were the new hotspot in Kolkata. However, the history of chocolate lava cake also known as chocolate molten cake can be traced in French and American gourmet cuisine, at least 30 years back.

This confectionery is typically created in the form of cupcakes with a runny centre of chocolate. You can choose whichever chocolate you like, and there are many varieties that have a chocolate filling on a different flavour of the cake, like red velvet, white cake, etc. the point is, the outer shell doesn’t always have to be chocolate cake.

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While the authentic chocolate lava cake recipe is not vegetarian, since eggs are put into it, it is not impossible to make vegetarian chocolate lava cake. Eggs are primarily used for leavening a cake and acquire the spongy form, but as you can see, I am showing you eggless chocolate lava cake recipe, that is perfectly leavened and as spongy as it should be.

When it comes to chocolates, children jump in joy, and my kids are not an exception, and the special thing is that my children have often helped to make it, by whisking the batter or putting it in the moulds. You can also decorate the cake with gems, cherries, or sprinkles.

To enjoy this cake at its best, with the gooey molten chocolate, have it warm, soon after it’s done, because if you store it, then the chocolate might get hardened. You can do another thing is spin it the microwave for a few seconds, or warm it in a tawa immediately before serving. But make sure you don’t overheat it, you just need it warm.

Go ahead and make eggless chocolate lava cake at home, and in your pressure cooker.  Here is a step by step guide on how to make chocolate lava cake at home, you can also check out my Youtube video of the same recipe, on my channel, Mint Recipes.

Equipment Used:

Prestige Pan, Prestige Induction, Prestige Pressure Cooker, Morphy Richards Microwave

How to make Choco Lava Cake:

To make Chocolate Ganache:

• Chop the chocolate into small pieces.
• Heat the cream in a heavy bottom pan on low heat till it becomes hot but do not let it boil.

• Pour the hot cream over chocolate and let the chocolate melt.

• Stir gently until it blends together into a rich, shiny beautiful mass.

• You can also add little butter to enhance the taste and mix it well.

• Now transfer the ganache into an airtight container and freeze it for 4-5 hours until set.

• After 5 hours take out the chocolate ganache from the fridge and make small balls out of it.

• Put the ganache balls in a fridge for an hour so that it will get set or if you do not have much time can keep it in a freezer for some time or until set.

Chocolate Batter

• To make the chocolate batter put all purpose flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder in a mixing bowl. Mix all the dry ingredients very well.

• In another bowl put condense milk, vanilla essence, water and mix it well.

Add half of the dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix it well for few seconds.

Now add rest of the dry mixture and mix it well.

• Add melted butter and oil in the batter and stir gently in a cut-n-fold method.

• Lastly, add vinegar, mix it well and make the smooth batter.

• Chocolate batter is ready to make Choco lava cake.
• Today I am going to make choco lava cake in the pressure cooker so for this put salt and stand inside the pressure cooker, cover the lid and heat the pressure cooker for 10 minutes on low flame. Meanwhile, let’s keep ready our cup liners.
• To make cupcakes in pressure cooker take paper teacups and cut them into halves so that cup liner gets set inside the teacups.

• Now take your favourite cupcake liners or silicon mould and insert them into the teacups by pushing them gently.

• Place all the moulds with teacups in the cake pan.
• Fill the chocolate batter in the piping bag and pipe approx 1 1/2 tbsp of the prepared batter into these silicon moulds/cupcake liners.

• Now place the cake pan carefully over the stand inside the pressure cooker.

• Close the cooker, remove the whistle and bake it for 5 minutes on low flame or till batter thickens a bit.

• Now take out the cake pan from the pressure cooker and place chilled ganache balls in the centre and cover it with the batter.

• Put it again the cake pan inside the pressure cooker, cover the lid and bake it in the preheated pressure cooker for 10- 15 minutes on medium-low flame or until the cake becomes fluffy.

• Once done, take out the cake pan from the pressure cooker, tear off the paper teacups and set aside until cupcakes cool down a bit.

• Take out the cake from the silicon mould, place a plate on top of the mould and simply turn it upside down.

• Break it with the spoon and the molten lava cake is ready.

• Serve Immediately.
• If serving later warm it for few seconds before serving.