Why You’ll Love These Chocolate Lava Cookies
Rich, decadent, and impressive…yet so easy to make! Simply make the dough, stuff it with the ganache, and bake. Chocolate lava cake flavor without any fancy ramekins or baking tins needed! Soft and chewy texture that lasts for days. Using brown sugar and an extra egg yolk really helps with this. Perfect for Valentine’s Day! They are truly a chocoholic’s dream cookie ❤️
Some days, you just need a good chocolate cookie, and for that I have plenty of options: double chocolate chip cookies, brownie cookies, and even flourless chocolate cookies will all do the trick. Then there are days when you need a chocolate cookie that’s so rich, so indulgent it should come with a warning…and that’s when these chocolate lava cookies do their best work. Made with a rich, dark cocoa-infused cookie dough enveloping molten chocolate ganache, these cookies are not for the fainthearted. No, only true chocoholics should dare to try (and devour) them. Consider yourself warned! Fortunately, making these cookies is not near as much of an undertaking as resisting the urge to devour the whole batch (coming from a self-proclaimed chocoholic). We’ll use a similar method to my Nutella stuffed cookies, which means even beginner bakers can tackle this one. Let’s get to it!
What You Need
Here are some of the key ingredients we’ll be using in these chocolate lava cookies.
Cake flour. I prefer to use cake flour as it creates a soft, cake-like texture. Normally I don’t like cakey cookies, but since these are supposed to be reminiscent of chocolate lava cakes, it just makes sense here! Corn starch. This helps the cookies hold their shape and prevents them from spreading all over the baking sheet. Cocoa powder. I like using dark cocoa powder in this recipe, but regular dutch process cocoa will work just fine too! If you’d like to learn about all the different types of cocoa powder, check out my post on natural vs. dutch process cocoa powder. Egg + egg yolk. Using an extra yolk (but not the white!) will encourage a stiffer dough so the cookies can hold in their molten lava center. Dark chocolate. I recommend couverture chocolate or a chopped baking bar. I don’t typically like to use chocolate chips to make chocolate ganache, but you could use them in a pinch.
SAM’S TIP: These cookies are very fragile when hot! They must cool completely before you pick them up, or they’ll just fall apart. They do taste good (amazing) served warm, but if they’re too warm the bottom could fall out. Remember, this is just an overview of the ingredients I used and why. For the full recipe please scroll down to the bottom of the post!
How to Make Chocolate Lava Cookies
Make the Filling
Cookie Dough
Assembly
SAM’S TIP: Don’t add the powdered sugar while the cookies are still warm, or it will just melt right into the cookies. Wait til just before serving! If you want the full chocolate lava cake experience, serve your chocolate lava cookies with some vanilla ice cream! Enjoy! Let’s bake together! Subscribe to my newsletter to be notified of all the newest recipes, and find my free recipe tutorials on YouTube 💜
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