Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (cut into cubes)
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon instant coffee
  • 3 teaspoons granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1 large egg (at room temperature)
  • 1 egg yolk (at room temperature)
  • confectioners sugar
  • berries (strawberries or raspberries)
  • vanilla ice cream

Instruction

  • Grease two ramekins with butter or spray with a nonstick spray.
  • Preheat oven to 400 F degrees.
  • Place semi-sweet chocolate chips and butter in a bowl.
  • Place a pan half full with water on stove top. Once the water starts simmering [not boiling], place the bowl of chocolate and butter over it. The bowl should not touch the water.
  • Keep stirring till the chocolate and butter are completely melted and form a smooth mixture. You can also melt these using microwave, stirring after every 30 seconds.
  • Remove from stove top, add in the instant coffee, granulated sugar and vanilla into the mixture and whisk till well combined.
  • Wait for 5 minutes for the mixture to cool down a bit [we don't want to cook the eggs!] and then add in 1 egg and 1 egg yolk and mix till well combined.
  • Finally add in the flour and mix to form a smooth batter.
  • Pour batter into the prepared ramekins.
  • Bake at 400 F degrees for 11-12 minutes. The edges will look done, but the center will still look gooey, that's when you want to take your cakes out.
  • Remove from oven and let the cakes sit down at room temperature for 5 minutes.
  • Invert each cake onto the serving plate.
  • Dust with powdered sugar. Place some raspberries on top and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.