Lava. Chocolate Lava

Have you ever bitten into a rich, creamy chocolate cloud, only to have the bite melt on your

tongue, leaving you with a wish for more?

Chocolate Lava

Well I have. Chocolate lava cakes have been a family staple since I had to practice
making them for my culinary competitions in high school. I have used the same recipe for years. Knowing
that it was delicious and being satisfied with that knowledge. 

Well shocker, it’s not the best. 

Imagine my surprise when I see the results of my “fail proof” recipe not winning the praise and

accolades I once deemed it worthy of. But also, imagine my joy when I realized I now knew what

the best was. I have determined to rule the world with this winning Lava Cake.  

I will too.

Food Network, has come back with a new trick. That being a delicious and perfect Lava cake
for the whole family to share. At least.. That's what mine did.

It was Saturday night and I had just been out to the symphony with my family. We got
home late and I knew that if I wanted to get my lava cake made I’d need to make this a friendly competition.

Friendly competition

We split up into teams and we each took one recipe to make. The results were almost unanimous.

Food Network literally took the cake. 

Food Network!

FOOD NETWORK:

This recipe was easy to make, we were able to microwave the chocolate, and still get a silky texture from the batter.

I honestly think the reason it won was because it used two different types of chocolate. A semi-Sweet

and a bitter sweet the balance between the two chocolates created a perfect harmony that was simply

too good to be true.

Look at how different each batter is!

The website is how I explained last time, easy to use, and filled with fun links to other good recipes!
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chocolate-lava-cakes-2312421

FOOD AND WINE:

Food and wine had a great recipe as well. The recipe was very different than the other ones,

it had you beat the egg whites, and fold in the chocolate.

This created a very silky and light batter. The only downside was that the chocolate was rather bitter.

We were beating the egg whites

The website for Food and Wine has a clean look and it's easy to navigate! Check it out

for some awesome recipes from Food and Wine magazine!

https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/molten-chocolate-cakes

KRAFT

This Kraft recipe was the recipe I have used since my competition days. I have always

liked it and have always been impressed with the results! It is a good lava cake but the

flavor wasn't as rich as the other cakes because of the lack of a good bitter dark chocolate.

Kraft

Finished cakes!

The Kraft website has a lot of fun recipes, something cool about the website as well is

that it's very family friendly and focused. Go to it for some good kid friendly recipes!
https://www.myfoodandfamily.com/recipe/069182/chocolate-molten-lava-cakes

All in all the competition went well, and now I know the best lava cake recipe we all won in the end… I mean. It was lava cake!

BONUS:

My sisters pup, Chance!
(he was helping obvi)