Chocolate Lava Cakes With Pistachio Cream Food

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CHOCOLATE LAVA CAKES WITH PISTACHIO CREAM



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A flourless chocolate mini cake with a gooey chocolaty center. This concoction is topped of with pistachio butter. This is a Cooking Light recipe and the cake itself has only 7.7 grams of fat! The cakes need to chill for 2 hours before baking.

Provided by Dawn399

Categories     Dessert

Time 54m

Yield 12 lava cakes

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 cup shelled dry roasted pistachios
1 3/4 cups sugar (divided)
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 large eggs
5 large egg whites
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate (coarsely chopped)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup reduced-fat milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
confectioners' sugar (optional)
cooking spray

Steps:

  • Chocolate Lava Cakes: Spray 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
  • Place pistachios in a food processor and process until a crumbly paste forms.
  • This will create pistachio butter.
  • Combine 1/4 cup of pistachio butter,1 1/4 cup sugar (you'll have 1/2 cup left over),cocoa, eggs, egg whites and place in a double boiler or heavy sauce pan.
  • Stir well with a whisk and add bittersweet chocolate.
  • Cook over low heat or simmering water until chocolate melts and sugar dissolves@ 3 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and add baking powder and vanilla.
  • Stir with a whisk until smooth.
  • Spoon batter into muffin cups and chill for 2 hours.
  • Pistachio Butter: Prepare pistachio butter while cakes are chilling.
  • Place remaining 1/4 cup of pistachio butter and 1/2 cup sugar in a food processor.
  • Pulse 3-4 times.
  • Add milk and salt and process until smooth.
  • Strain solids out of mixture into a small sauce pan.
  • Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for@ 4 minutes.
  • Chill pistachio butter while cooking lava cakes.
  • Preheat oven to 450°F.
  • Bake cakes for 9 minutes or until almost set.
  • Centers will be gooey.
  • Let cool for 5 minutes.
  • Invert cake on a dessert plate and spoon pistachio butter over cake.
  • May top with powdered sugar.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 205.4, Fat 6.2, SaturatedFat 1.2, Cholesterol 36.9, Sodium 124.1, Carbohydrate 34.1, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 31.2, Protein 5.8

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