Gordon Ramsay's Chocolate Babycakes

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 50 g soft unsalted butter, plus more for greasing
• 350 g best dark chocolate
• 150 g caster sugar
• 4 large eggs, beaten with
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 50 g plain flour

Recipe

• 1 you will need 6 individual pudding moulds and buttered baking parchment.
• 2 pre-heat oven to 200 degrees.
• 3 putting in a baking sheet at the same time.
• 4 lay 3 of the moulds on a sheet of doubled baking parchment.
• 5 draw around them, remove and then cut out the disks as marked.
• 6 press them into the base of tins.
• 7 melt the chocolate and let to cool slightly.
• 8 cream together the butter and sugar and gradually beat in the eggs and salt, then the vanilla.
• 9 now add the flour, and when all is smoothly combined scrape in the cooled chocolate, blending into a smooth batter.
• 10 divide the batter between 6 moulds.
• 11 quickly whip the baking sheet out of the oven, arrange the litle tins on it and replace it in the oven.
• 12 cook for 10-12 minutes, extra 2 minutes are needed if the mixture was fridge cold.
• 13 as soon as you take them out of the oven, tip them onto smal plates or shallow serving bowls.
• 14 serve with whipped double cream or double cream unwhipped, creme fraiche, creme anglaise or ice-cream.