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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Chocolate Fondant / Chocolate Molten Cake


I woke up today straight from my bed to set in front of my laptop without even brushing my teeth or have a breakfast; I know disgusting but that's the reality of addiction, I had this desire to make a lavish dessert for the day without having to do 100 burpees to burn the calories and for quite a while I wanted to have a scandalous chocolate cake but I was ignoring the urge to have it, don't get me wrong I love chocolate cakes but I try to keep a distance from them most of the time because not only they are loaded with calories but usually as well contain huge amount of saturated fat and sugar with so little nutrition,  so I made up my mind to make one of the most sinful chocolate cakes that it is usually associated with "Valentine's Day" for obvious reason ;)

Chocolate lava cake, Chocolate molten cake or Chocolate fondant cake; call it whatever you like but it is a controversial dessert from who invented it to what ingredients should be used and the method to prepare the cake ... all that doesn't actually matter because this dessert is AMAZING if it was made right.

Today I tried to make it as healthy as possible which cut  two thirds of the calories and one third of the fat, not only that; the fat I used is one of the super food you can eat so loaded with Omega 3 and other nutrition. While I was doing my research and my calculations I tried to keep the recipe as original as I can without adding too much or substitute too much of the ingredients because for me that will make a new dessert, and what I want is chocolate molten cake that is moist and chocolaty in the center,  without adding liquid chocolate to the middle or inject it with any kind of sauce, and I am happy with the results specially I didn't have an oven to cook it so I had to improvise . 
Of course there is always room for improvement and I will improve this recipe but for now enjoy this easy satisfying Chocolate molten cake.

If you will use the oven preheat it to 170 c, if you don't have an oven then make sure you have a proper pressure cooker with the steaming tray inside, preheat it on medium high before 5 minutes.


Ingredients:

Chocolate Molten Cake - My Little Healthy Twist
1 large Egg
1/4 Cup Maple Syrup/Honey
1/4 Cup Margarine 
1/4 Cup Mashed Avocado
1/2 Cup 60% Dark Chocolate
2 Tablespoons all Purpose flour  



Directions:

In heat proof bowl put the chopped chocolate and the Margarine in double boiler over simmering water or microwave to melt, stir the chocolate and don't overcook or burn the chocolate. 
Remove the chocolate from heat and allow to cool down while stirring, when it is all cooled enough add avocado, the egg and maple syrup and whisk and add the flour whisk to incorporate all ingredients but don't over whisk.
prepare 5 ramekins buttered, divide the batter equally but to fill only two third of each ramekin so it doesn't overflow while cooking.

Place them in the middle tray in the oven or in the steaming tray in the pressure cooker (close the pressure cooker without locking or putting the whistle on) and cook for 6 - 7 minutes. Remove from the oven or the pressure cooker and let it set for a minute.

Serve immediately with powder sugar or fresh berries.

Note: Don't over cook or it will turn to brownie.  

Each serving contain 251 Calories and 25 Fat.



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