Chocolate Lava Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 large eggs
• 2 large egg yolks
• 5 tbsp butter
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 3.5 oz dark chocolate (this is one standard chocolate bar)
• 3 tbsp flour
• 4 tsp good (aka expensive) cocoa powder
• pinch salt
• 1/8 tsp vanilla
• *Bake at 425 F, in water bath for 15 mins.

Legend has it that this dessert was the result of a major catering disaster. The dessert for this particular event was to be individual chocolate cakes, but someone took them out of the ovens to soon and the centers where not cooked enough and still liquefied. Well, there was no time to take them off the plates and cook them more, so the Chef simply had his wait staff introduce the dessert as Chocolate “Lava” Cake! Brilliant! Now, whether this is true or not, I don’t know for sure, but it totally sounds like something a Chef would do.