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Oozing Red Velvet Cake is rich and delicious with an oozing center.  Serve with a strawberry sauce for more oozing fun!

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It’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I cannot believe we’re in October already. Where has the year gone? Vanished into thin air along with my blogging mojo. Consequently, I am signing up for all events in an effort to force it to come back. But that’s another post entirely.

Okay, this is the first time I’ve made a lava cake that didn’t involve someone else’s instruction. Read: I made them as part of a Sur la Table class I took with Mom. Since then, I haven’t tried to make them. And yes, I hear you. “These aren’t very oozing.” We’ll get to that in a minute.

 

What are lava cakes?

Some describe lava cakes as a combination of a soufflé and chocolate cake. Other say it’s a cake with a truffle like center. This cake has a hint of flour. This gives the oozing red velvet lava cakes that fudgy almost truffle like consistency when baked correctly.

Of course, you don’t want to over cook these cakes. The center will not be as oozing if you do. Hence why mine isn’t oozing. I have adjusted the cooking time slightly to allow yours to turn out perfectly oozing. But there’s another part to that story. Stay tuned.

 

How do you make Oozing Red Velvet Cake?

These oozing red velvet cakes are surprisingly easy to make. If you have a hand mixer or even a mixing bowl and a whisk you can make these simple cakes. Lava cakes have very few ingredients you probably have in your pantry and fridge right now.

You will need:

Cocoa powder
Flour
Salt
Butter
White chocolate chips
Powdered sugar
Red food coloring (I used gel coloring)
Eggs
Four 6-ounce ramekins (or a muffin tin)

See what I mean? Simple ingredients that are a standard in my pantry. If you have liquid food coloring, that’s fine. I don’t think there will be any need to adjust the flour or cocoa powder amount to account for the liquid.

How do I make sure my lava cakes have a liquid center?

First and foremost, do not overcook them. This will keep the center from being liquid or truffle like. The edges of your cake will look done. The center will rise but not be overly puffy. I shook my ramekins like I do cheesecake. They didn’t jiggle but they did have more movement than if I made a regular cake.

Next, make sure to cook them close to the time you want to eat them. Finally, serve these lava cakes warm. I did not do this. Hence another reason why oozing red velvet cakes are not as oozing as I had hoped. Since they only take 10 to 13 minutes to cook, this should be easy to do.  

And you can have the ramekins ready up to 2 days ahead of time. So these are easily to make ahead. Keep them covered with plastic wrap in the fridge. You can either bring the ramekins to room temperature or add an additional minute to the cooking time to account for the cold batter.

Yes, my oozing red velvet lava cake isn’t as red as I hope either. I used dark chocolate cocoa powder instead of regular cocoa powder. Don’t do this. It makes them really dark and not as red as you want. That is if you want red velvet cake. If you don’t, then just leave them with dark cocoa powder and make some dark chocolate lava cakes.

Either way, they are super delicious and easy to whip up. You can have them on the table in under 30 minutes. You can make them ahead of time and have them ready to pop into the oven any time you want. That’s dangerous. I know. But these oozing red velvet lava cakes are totally worth it.

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