This dessert goes by many names: moelleux au chocolat, chocolate surprise cake, molten chocolate cake, chocolate lava cake, chocolate molten lava cake, chocolate souffle cake ...
Molten lava cakes were all the rage in the early 1990s, thanks to food writers like Maida Heatter and Dione Lucas and well-known chefs like Wolfgang Puck and Jacques Torres.
The dessert is still popular on restaurant dessert menus. So I was surprised when I didn't find a proliferation of recipes for it in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette archives. Oh, there were a few, but most mentions of this dessert were in restaurant reviews.
But this dessert could not be easier to make. Seriously, the hardest part is waiting for it to cool enough that you don't burn your mouth.
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