Chocolate lava cake is not just under cooked chocolate cake that's not what makes the center molten
You take a frozen cylinder of ganache and you set it in the ramekin so that as the outside cooks fully the inside becomes molten
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O-okay
It's f*cking molten, you see?! F*cking molten, you *sshole!
Hey, what's up guys welcome back to binging with babish where this week
We're taking a look at the reviled lava cake from Chef. Now lava cake is actually pretty awesome. Oh my god
You guys look who it is
It's Roy Choi and chef Carl Casper from the movie here to teach me how to make it. - Well hold on am I?
I'm actually Jon Favreau, Carl Casper is just a character.
- So Carl, why did you dislike the lava cake so much? - I'm not Carl. I'm Jon.
Why did you dislike the lava cake so much?
I like I actually um I like lava cake okay, so that's where I'm different from the character I played.
I don't understand what you mean, but we're gonna soldier on and make some awesome chocolate lava cake.
What about this? - We need to get you some, uh, uniforms. - There we go, now we're talking.
Let's get some Babish aprons on. Let's start cooking. We're gonna start by melting some chocolate, yeah?
So we're gonna start by measuring out 14 ounces of good dark chocolate four of which we're going to melt in a double boiler
use your nearest Jon Favreau if you have one
If not just use a rubber spatula keep the water at a bare simmer and melt until nice and smooth
And then we're going to slowly drizzle in a half cup of heavy cream
This is going to make a chocolate ganache filling which, as we saw earlier, is essential.
So this is the way it should be. Carl Casper's actually making the real stuff
- That's right, he's Jon. I think the real--
Who? Sorry? - He's Jon. - Movies are make-believe I don't know what you mean
Just like you're not Oliver Babish
I'm not?
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and place in the freezer for at least two hours
Then it's time to make our cake we need 12
Tablespoons of butter and the remaining chocolate.
Yeah, this is not an art this is very much a science
And, same deal. Melt together a stick and a half of butter and the remaining 10 ounces of dark chocolate meanwhile
We're going to combine 6 large eggs and half a cup of light brown sugar
I want to see who can crack an egg with one hand the best. - I do it for the movie
- yeah, Jon does it, I'm actually horrible at it.
Jon does it really good.
Beat together the eggs and brown sugar until they are light and frothy, and then we're going to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract
And maybe a tablespoon two tablespoons of Grand Marnier then boys gonna explain
Why we slowly add the chocolate so this is like splashing yourself with water before going to the pool
Oh, is that? Yeah, tell me how that works? No. It's like you're not cold, so you're not cold
You know like when you splash your body with water.
Bring it nice and center. There you go. You got good metaphors dude. He does.
- I got good what? Metaphors.
- Oh? Yeah? That's a good thing.
Okay? I thought those were fighting words
You what yes, and now what you've done is you've allowed the eggs to
Accept the temperatures via scrape all the chocolate into the egg and sugar mixture
And then we're going to add a tablespoon at a time six tablespoons of all-purpose flour make sure you keep count
I should count these three once all the flour has been incorporated. It's time to start lubing up ramekins with butter and sugar
And grease em' down, ladies and gentlemen at home. All right. I got it
The butter is absolutely necessary if you ever expect to get to the cakes out of their four ounce ramekins
Then an additional coating of raw or demurrers sugar is going to not only provide a crunchy exterior to our cakes
It's going to make them even easier to get out of the ramekins
Simply sprinkle in a few tablespoons and rotate the ramekins over a bowl to evenly coat with sugar use your spatula to evenly dispersed cake
Batter we want to use this as your tool okay to control that look go higher up
They go catch it pull back and click fill each ramekin a little under halfway with cake batter
And then it's time to start dispersing frozen ganache, so just drop it right in there like a little baby. Yeah, right?
just like like a... baby
We're aiming for between one to two tablespoons of ganache then it's time to top each of these up with the remaining cake batter
Hoping that we've reserved enough to evenly cover our ganache babies. We're cutting it close I know
See we transferred it too many times, maybe hopefully the music reflects the suspense
It's called cheating the camera do you do that on your show -I try
Now with the oven preheated to 425 degrees Fahrenheit
It's time for John to execute and babish walk off. What's the babish walk off? -You just like this hold up for a second -Oh, Okay
Those cakes are going to bake for 11 minutes flat during which time we're going to quarter some
strawberries and get ready to plate these guys up
Just like they were in the movie out of the oven place them immediately on a cooling rack.
How's that feeling?
You feeling good about it?
Yeah
You can see the chocolate level and I-- you have good things run a small knife around the outside of each cake to make sure
that it releases easily once inverted Now, It's time to plate. -Clear
I've never done this before this before... -This is it, -This is all, this was the one dish, that it was already plated
I can't get a grip on this thing
Ooh! Ahh! -Mamma Mia
Yeah hit it with a dollop of soft peak whipped cream and consult a still frame from the movie to make sure that you're plating
things up accurately
are so like
Good run
And then a couple berries on the side dust with a sprinkle of powdered sugar on the cake and a sprinkle of cocoa powder on
The plates then finally it's time to dig in here we go
Then for the frozen cylinder of ganache that's it oh man yes if
It doesn't taste like raw cake in the middle of a mmm. This is so good oh
Wow, this cake is delicious relatively easy and perfect for Valentine's Day next year
You know you know what's weird is that Oliver Platt is Oliver Babish? Yep, which is his and his name is Andrew
Yeah, but named after the guy from West Wing right. Yep, and the guy from West Wing who trail on for Platt?
Yes, who's in our movie?
Yep, hold on a second. Let's talk about this get this on your camera was that after Jeff what's going on here? Yeah?
Here's the fork yeah, that's from the movie
Maybe not...
Did we get close pretty close city good? Hey? We gotta go along your neck online, but that's
There's the fork and you know what?
Here's a gift for you. -No way -Yes. The fork from the movie. Holy Sh**
That's so it's not often that somebody has a tattoo of something