Hi, everyone I'm Gemma Stafford and this week on Bigger
Bolder Baking I am making a chocolate lava cable for two.
Check it out.
So for this cake bowl, you're going to need kind of a standard soup bowl,
something around like 10 to 12 ounces, something that is microwavable safe.
Now into this, we are going to add in our cold cubed butter.
Now, our first step is to take this away and microwave it
until it's melted.
So into our melted butter we're going to add in a little splash of milk,
crack in our egg
and a little splash of yummy vanilla extract.
And then whisk all these ingredients together.
So Kevin and I are actually married
ten years this year, and it's been a bit of a crazy ten years
just because we actually started our business together nine years ago.
So we started
Bigger Bolder Baking together;
we built it in this tiny little house in Santa Monica,
and we've been working together ever since.
And now we also have a toddler who is three years of age.
So it's been a busy ten years, but definitely action packed and eventful.
If you follow me on Instagram, you'll always see pictures of Kevin and George
and us out and about, and it might be as something as mundane is going to Costco
or like going to a park
or like maybe our travels in Ireland or something like that.
So those are wet ingredients.
Into this we're going to add in our all purpose flour, sugar,
regular unsweetened cocoa powder,
a little bit of raising agent, a little bit of baking soda in here.
And a little bit of salt.
Salt and chocolate go so well together.
So you have to have a little bit of that in there.
And then my secret weapon for this delicious cake bowl is espresso powder.
Now, even if you don't like coffee, the chocolate and the coffee
go so well together, it adds another dimension to the chocolate.
It almost like seasons it and brings out all the lovely flavors.
So it's a winning combo.
So espresso powder just so it dissolves straight into your ingredients.
Now we can go in withg a fork and give this a mix up.
I don't know if it's because I've gotten older or if it’s
because of George, but we don't eat out as much.
So when it comes to these holidays, like Valentine's Day
and birthdays and things like that, we tend to eat in.
Like Kevin will cook and I will make the dessert or,
you know, we'll make something together.
So that's why I'm making this for him.
It's something that we can share.
He loves chocolate and he loves convenient desserts.
So this ticks all those boxes.
So Kevin generally makes an appearance only once a year around Valentine's Day
in my videos.
And a few years ago, one of my, actually one of my most favorite desserts
and one of the loveliest videos as well was when I made a dessert
tiramisu for two, and then Kevin came and joined me in that video.
And that was really nice.
Over the years, he's been in a few videos.
We did a dessert charcuterie with like butterscotch sauce
and everything, and we even in that video told the story of like how we met.
So, you know, it's kind of nice because over the years,
without even knowing it, our like, our relationship
and our journey has been like, chronological.
What's that word?
What's the word?
Chronologically, no.
The chronological order.
No, has been recorded.
But that's not the right word.
Okay, lovely.
That's our batter. It's nice and smooth.
Now, our last step to make this super delicious
and to make it lovely and lava, just like those ones that we get in
restaurants, is we are going to sprinkle over some bittersweet chopped chocolate.
So sprinkle that over, all over the top.
And then lastly here I have a little bit of hot water.
So just pour this all around the top
and you're probably wondering what am I doing with this right now?
But it's all going to make sense
when it comes out of the microwave and it's ooey and gooey.
For a nice presentation, I’m just gonna wipe down the bowl
because we're going to be eating out of it.
And follow me over to the microwave.
So the beauty of cake bowls is that they're microwaved.
You don't even need an oven.
So here's the thing.
You're going to microwave it for around a minute and a half.
Then check on it.
If it's a little bit jiggly in the middle, pop it in for another 20 to 30 seconds.
What we're looking for is for it to be firm on top.
This cake looks really great and I don't want it to cool down too much.
So I'm going to top it
with Kevin's favorite ice cream, which is Monster Cookie ice cream.
And I'm going to sprinkle over a few raspberries on top.
Okay, Kevin.
Come on in.
Happy Valentine's Day Kevin! Beautiful.
Is this all for me?
No, it's for sharing. It's for two.
It's in the title. Read the title. It says for two. It's
in the title.
I’m gonna have to read that first next time.
So Lava Cake is one of my favorites.
Oh, this is good.
This is really good.
The cake is super moist.
I mean, as the microwave does a lot of times, but
you've also got like the ooey gooey bits in the middle that are incredible.
Yeah.
It's like saucy.
Right, dig right down there to the bottom.
And that's where that lava is.
I gotta go down there.
Yeah.
It's of course, always good with ice cream.
Highly recommended.
Oh my gosh that’s so good. This might be
one of the nicest things that I ever did for you for Valentine's Day.
Oh, yeah.
Likely And how long did it take?
It took less than 2 minutes in the microwave.
Less than 2 minutes in the microwave.
So for just 2 minutes you can deliver
quite a treat for a special someone in your life.
This is delicious.
Kevin get right into the middle there, you see where the gooey stuff is?
I’m gonna go for it here.
Gem, thanks as always for having me to be your taste tester.
Thank you for your annual appearance in my videos.
You should come back more. We’ll have you back more.
I have some ideas.
I actually have some really big ideas.
Is it the Kevin Show, is that the idea?
No. Okay.
Thank you very much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this.
And make sure to check out some more of our Valentine's videos.
We have tons of Valentine's videos for you to check out right here.
Yeah. So stay tuned. Bye bye.
Happy Valentine's.
I have a mouth full of cake.