Red Velvet Chocolate Lava Skillet Cake

Red Velvet Chocolate Lava Skillet Cake requires roughly 45 minutes from start to finish. This side dish has 481 calories, 7g of protein, and 23g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 2. For 90 cents per serving, this recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your valentin day event. A mixture of heavy cream, distilled vinegar, buttermilk, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. A couple people made this recipe, and 34 would say it hit the spot. It is brought to you by Kirbie Cravings. Overall, this recipe earns a not so awesome spoonacular score of 36%. Similar recipes include Red Velvet Molten Lava Cake, {2 Serving Size} Red Velvet Molten Lava Cake, and Red Velvet Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes with Chocolate Ganache Center.

Servings: 2

 

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Cooking instruction summary:

1.Add heavy cream and chocolate chips to a small saucepan over low-medium heat on the stove. Whisk constantly until chocolate is completely melted and mixture becomes smooth and uniform in color. Lay a small sheet of parchment paper (about 6 inches in length and width) flat onto a plate or small cutting board. Pour the chocolate onto the parchment paper so that it forms a round circle. Spread it out slightly, so that it is a circle about 4 to 4 1/2 inches in diameter. Place chocolate ganache into refrigerator to chill for about 20 minutes.2.While ganache is cooling, make the cake. Lightly grease a 6 inch cast iron skillet. Preheat oven to 350F.3. In a mediumbowl, add all the cake ingredients. Whisk until smooth. If you feel your batter is not redenough, you can add a few more drops of food coloring and whisk again until smooth. I used a gel base food coloring, so I found 1 tsp was enough to achieve a dark red.4. Pour a little more than half of the batter into your skillet. The batter should completely cover the bottom of the pan. Check on your chocolate ganache (assuming it's been 20 minutes. If not, wait until at least 20 minutes to check on it.) The ganache should have cooled enough to form a delicate solidshell around it. It won't yet be completely solid, but you should be able to touch it without any chocolate getting on your hands and you should be able to peel it off the parchment paper, like a limp pancake. Take your ganache pancake and place it on top of the batter already in the skillet. Pour the remaining batter on top of the ganache, covering the ganache entirely. Make sure to use a spatula and scrape up any red velvet cake batter left in the bowl and put it into your skillet as the batter will be quite thick and won't all pour out easily. Tap the bottom of your skillet a few times on your counter to settle and smooth out the surface of the batter. The top shoud be smooth and the batter should be evenly spread out.5. Bake cake for about 20 minutes. Surface of cake should be dry to the touch and when you push in, the cake should slowly bounceback. Make sure you don't overbake the cake, otherwise the chocolate will cook into the cake and the edges will overcook. Let cake cool a few minutes before consuming. You can add powdered sugar or top with ice cream.* Do not leave out buttermilk or vinegar. Buttermilk is key to the red velvet flavor and the acid reacts with the baking soda to make the cake rise. You will not taste the vinegar, but the vinegar also reacts with the baking soda.

 

Step by step:

1. Add heavy cream and chocolate chips to a small saucepan over low-medium heat on the stove.

2. Whisk constantly until chocolate is completely melted and mixture becomes smooth and uniform in color. Lay a small sheet of parchment paper (about 6 inches in length and width) flat onto a plate or small cutting board.

3. Pour the chocolate onto the parchment paper so that it forms a round circle.

4. Spread it out slightly, so that it is a circle about 4 to 4 1/2 inches in diameter.

5. Place chocolate ganache into refrigerator to chill for about 20 minutes.2.While ganache is cooling, make the cake. Lightly grease a 6 inch cast iron skillet. Preheat oven to 350F.

6. In a mediumbowl, add all the cake ingredients.

7. Whisk until smooth. If you feel your batter is not redenough, you can add a few more drops of food coloring and whisk again until smooth. I used a gel base food coloring, so I found 1 tsp was enough to achieve a dark red.

8. Pour a little more than half of the batter into your skillet. The batter should completely cover the bottom of the pan. Check on your chocolate ganache (assuming it's been 20 minutes. If not, wait until at least 20 minutes to check on it.) The ganache should have cooled enough to form a delicate solidshell around it. It won't yet be completely solid, but you should be able to touch it without any chocolate getting on your hands and you should be able to peel it off the parchment paper, like a limp pancake. Take your ganache pancake and place it on top of the batter already in the skillet.

9. Pour the remaining batter on top of the ganache, covering the ganache entirely. Make sure to use a spatula and scrape up any red velvet cake batter left in the bowl and put it into your skillet as the batter will be quite thick and won't all pour out easily. Tap the bottom of your skillet a few times on your counter to settle and smooth out the surface of the batter. The top shoud be smooth and the batter should be evenly spread out.

10. Bake cake for about 20 minutes. Surface of cake should be dry to the touch and when you push in, the cake should slowly bounceback. Make sure you don't overbake the cake, otherwise the chocolate will cook into the cake and the edges will overcook.

11. Let cake cool a few minutes before consuming. You can add powdered sugar or top with ice cream.* Do not leave out buttermilk or vinegar. Buttermilk is key to the red velvet flavor and the acid reacts with the baking soda to make the cake rise. You will not taste the vinegar, but the vinegar also reacts with the baking soda.

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