RECIPE: A luscious molten lava cake to die for

What’s better than a chocolate lava cake? One that oozes peanut butter. Recipe courtesy of East 8

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Photo: Jasper Yu Art Direction & Styling: Nikki Ho
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Molten lava cake

Photo: Jasper Yu Art Direction & Styling: Nikki Ho

Makes 4 

INGREDIENTS 

150g dark chocolate 

50g milk chocolate 

100g unsalted butter 

35g plain flour 

120g caster sugar 

2 whole eggs + 2 egg yolks 

2 tbsp peanut butter

1/2 tbsp icing sugar

4 scoops vanilla ice cream

2 tbsp chopped almonds

DIRECTIONS

1. Melt the dark chocolate, milk chocolate and unsalted butter together in a double boiler or in a bowl over a pot of boiling water. Set aside.

2. Sift together the plain flour and caster sugar. Mix in the eggs and egg yolks to make a batter. Stir in the chocolate mixture, then pour into 4 large, buttered ramekins until they are half-full. 

3. Add the peanut butter to each ramekin and top with the rest of the batter. 

4. Bake at 95 deg C for 16min, then sprinkle with icing sugar and serve with vanilla ice cream topped with chopped almonds.

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