Moelleux Au Chocolat: Day 2

Today I'm going to use another recipe:

- 170 g chocolate
- 3 eggs
- 120 g sugar
- 55 g flour
- little bit salt
- 150 g butter

In little cups at 200 °C after having put them in the fridge for an hour.

I have 5 little cups and I will take them out of the oven one by one to see what happens during the course of time. At least one of them will be baked well enough to have this gooey inside.

Result:
This is very difficult to make. I didn't preheat the oven properly, next time I wait till the oven is exactly at 200 °C. It was still heating up while the cakes were in the oven. Even so, the amount of time the cakes need to be in the oven is very exact to the minute. One minute over time and your inside has become solid. This is what happened this time. I put it in there for 10 minutes and probably had to put it in there for 7 to 8 minutes.

Moelleux Au Chocolat: Day 1

This is a difficult one, especially the baking of it. You want it crispy outside and soft inside.

Here's the recipe:
80 g chocolate
3 eggs
150 g sugar
40 g flour

100 g butter

I'm going to try using 1 egg, so I divide by 3. And I'm going to cut back on the sugar.

I mix together the chocolate and the butter. I mix together the sugar and the egg. Then I add flour to the egg/sugar mixture. Finally I add chocolate and butter to the entire mixture.

This is what I got:

Now I put it in a 180-210 °C oven in a tiny, buttered, moelleux ceramic cup for about 15 minutes. (It will be better if you put it in the fridge for a few hours, but I don't want to wait. The reason it's better is because the inside will be cold and the outside will be warm. So the inside will be soft and sticky, while the outside is hard. We will get a nice gradient from inside to outside.)

And we get the result.

Hmm, I baked it a little bit too long. 16 minutes. Next time we do it with 10 minutes and I'm going to put it in the fridge first. I also think the cake is too soft on the outside, so next time I'm going to use 200 °C instead of 180 °C.

Some other recipes are totally different:

- 170 g chocolate
- 3 eggs
- 120 g sugar
- 55 g flour
- little bit salt

- 150 g butter

This second recipe looks a bit "darker" because it uses more chocolate. I think I'm going to try this one next time.

To see how I make the second recipe, go here:
http://katchum-kitchen.blogspot.be/2013/06/moelleux-au-chocolat-day-2.html