Molten Chocolate Cake

Ah, tried my hand at making Molten Chocolate Cakes (aka Lava Cakes) using a recipe which Colin most helpfully provided on his blog.

Now, as much as the cake in the picture looked all right, maybe even delectable to some, I must confess that all that is due to Kok Heng, who saved the day by first creating a restaurant-like finish via adept usage of chocolate sauce, and by secondly framing it in the best possible light using all of his photo-taking techniques. (he is an award-winning photographer.)

All that glitters is not gold, and beneath its elegant exterior lies an overbaked chocolate core (the bane of all would-be-molten- chocolate-cake-bakers), a gastronomical sin tantamount to a cheese-less cheese cake or *shudder* melted ice-cream. We were supposed to get melted chocolate seeping out, not a solid black interior! Ah well, live and learn I guess.