Blackberry Lava Cakes with White Chocolate

Sweet golden cakes with an erupting blackberry ganache centre. Serve these molten white chocolate blackberry lava cakes with fresh blackberries for a terrific, if decadent dessert.

When I was leafing through Chantal Coady’s book Rococo: mastering the art of chocolate a few weeks ago, I was struck by her recipe for White Chocolate Heartbreakers. These are white chocolate cakes served warm with a molten raspberry and white chocolate middle – rather like a chocolate fondant.

I bookmarked it straight away as I thought it would be an excellent dessert to adapt for the upcoming blackberry season. Who wouldn’t want a surprise purple melting middle?

Rococo by Chantal Coady

This was the first time I’ve made a recipe from this book. Annoyingly it was not watertight; the quantities used were inconsistent and some of the methodology didn’t make sense. In fact, I suspect the book suffers from being poorly edited, which is a shame as it’s a marvellous book with lots of fabulous recipe ideas.

The index is a shambles. I couldn’t find this recipe indexed under raspberries for instance. In fact I couldn’t find it in the index at all.

Luckily I know a thing or two about baking, so adapting the recipe and making these blackberry lava cakes wasn’t too much of an issue.

Blackberry Lava Cakes

Before I start I must warn you that this recipe uses an awful lot of white chocolate and I only used half the amount given in the original. I ended up with 25g of stray chocolate that was unaccounted for, but as I’d already cut it up, I incorporated it anyway.

I had an inkling that the white chocolate would caramelise at the base, which it did. So I put the stray chocolate on the top of the cakes, hoping it would do the same, which it did. I made the full quantity of the surprise centre as I had designs on it for another recipe – my chocolate blackberry cake. I made the blackberry melt centre the night before in order to allow the mixture to freeze, except it didn’t.

As you can tell, not everything went according to plan and I have quite a few quibbles with Chantal’s recipe. The ganache didn’t freeze for a start, so it was difficult to remove it from the ice-cube tray.

The result, however, was fabulous and these little puds are a decadent and delicious dessert I’d be happy to serve up at any dinner party.

As envisaged, the white chocolate base and top caramelised giving another layer of flavour and texture to these gorgeous volcano cakes. The blackberry ganache was a star, even though it erupted all over the cakes and didn’t come out as a neat melting pool of purpleness in the middle. Blackberry and white chocolate lava cakes would be a more appropriate name and the one I have in fact used.

Do let me know how successful your melts are. And if you have any top tips, please share them.

Other Blackberry Recipes You Might Like

• Blackberry & apple crumble
• Blackberry ice cream
• Bramble & apple spelt soda bread
• Chocolate blackberry jam
• Coconut & rose blackberry barfi
• Double blackberry chocolate galette

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White Chocolate & Blackberry Lava Cakes

A warm dessert cake with a melting middle of seasonal blackberries and white chocolate. Similar to a chocolate fondant, they’re utterly delicious.

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Prep Time30 minutes mins

Cook Time30 minutes mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: British

Keyword: blackberries, cakes, fondants, pudding, white chocolate

Servings: 6 people

Calories: 425kcal

Author: Choclette @ Tin and Thyme

Ingredients

Blackberry & White Chocolate Ganache

• 125 g blackberries
• 80 g white chocolate roughly chopped

Lava Cakes

• 50 g unsalted butter
• 200 g white chocolate half roughly chopped and the other half chopped into small pieces
• 2 large eggs (I used duck eggs)
• 1 pinch Himalayan pink rock salt
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 60 g self-raising flour (self-rising flour)
• 50 g ground almonds

Metric – US Customary

Instructions

Blackberry & White Chocolate Ganache

• Purée the blackberries with a stick blender, then press through a sieve to extract the seeds.
  125 g blackberries
• Melt the white chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of hot, but not boiling, water.
  80 g white chocolate
• Add the purée to the bowl and stir until combined.
• Fill six ice-cube holes with the mixture and put any remains in the fridge for future use. Freeze the mixture overnight.

Lava Cakes

• Melt the butter in a pan over a gentle heat.
  50 g unsalted butter
• Remove from the heat and add the 100g of roughly chopped white chocolate. Leave for a few minutes then stir until melted and smooth.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time along with the salt and vanilla extract.
  2 large eggs, 1 pinch Himalayan pink rock salt, ½ tsp vanilla extract
• Sift in the flour and add the ground almonds. Stir gently to incorporate.
  60 g self-raising flour (self-rising flour), 50 g ground almonds
• Add 50g of the white chocolate pieces to the batter.
• Distribute about 25g of the chopped chocolate between 6 silicone muffin moulds or lined tins.
• Cover the chocolate with a spoonful of batter. Place a frozen blackberry ganache on top of each one, then cover with the remaining batter.
• Top with a blackberry and the remaining chopped chocolate.
• Bake at 160℃ (320℉, Gas 3) for 30 minutes when the cakes should be well risen and golden.

Notes

Serve warm with fresh blackberries if possible.

Please note: calories and other nutritional information are per serving. They’re approximate and will depend on exact ingredients used.

Nutrition Estimate

Calories: 425kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 82mg | Sodium: 71mg | Potassium: 197mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 342IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 127mg | Iron: 1mg

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Sharing

I’m sending this off to Bookmarked Recipes with Jac over at Tinned Tomatoes.

As purple is the theme for Vegetable Palatte this month, I’m also sending these off to Shaheen  over at Allotment 2 Kitchen.

Anything goes for Treat Petite with Cakeyboi and The Baking Explorer this month and as it’s their first anniversary something special is required. So I’m sharing these blackberry and white chocolate melts with them too.

I’ve rather neglected Bake of the Week recently, so I am sending this off to Casa Costella while I remember.

Likewise, I haven’t entered Recipe of the Week for a while either. So A Mummy Too also benefits from one of these Blackberry Volcano Cakes 😉