Super quick and easy chocolate lava cake filled with a molten chocolate cookie butter spread made from the irresistible biscoff spread aka speculoos.

Cookie butter!! Otherwise known as biscoff, speculoos spread, or the most delicious thing to exist on this planet… Essentially it is a spread made of crushed spiced shortcrust biscuits known as speculoos. These cookies have a slightly spiced, caramelised flavour which is so addictive and pairs amazingly with chocolate. And so the chocolate cookie butter lava cake was born!

If you don’t have any cookie butter in your pantry using something like Nutella or peanut butter will work just as well!

I was looking to make something quick, easy, and in smaller portions so that these can be enjoyed when you are cooped up at home and aren’t able to share your massive batches of baked goods. These are perfect because they take less than 30 minutes from start to finish and make a perfect batch size of just 2! One for you and another for… you? Plus the ooze of chocolate and cookie butter that forms a little puddle on your plate adds a little drama to your baking!

On the other hand I have an announcement to make… I’m starting a YouTube channel! A lot of you guys had been asking whether, or when I would start one, and I thought why not now. It’s been a bit of a struggle trying to learn filming techniques, editing programs and all that, but the final result was all worth it, and I hope all of you think so too 🙂

As for the name of the channel, I wanted to use something that represented myself, without just being my name, so I’ve gone with “Catty Cakes”. For some reason when I was younger I didn’t like going by the nickname Cathy, so its always been Catty for me! Through this channel I hope I can share with you other sides of myself, while sharing delicious recipes for sweets and cakes.

My first video isn’t perfect, but I’m learning, and hopefully I can create better and better content. Check out the recipe and video below and let me know what you think! If you do make it, tag me on instagram @catherinedesserts and hashtag #cattycakes. Happy caking!

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📖 Recipe

Chocolate Cookie Butter Lava Cake

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Super quick and easy chocolate lava cake filled with a molten chocolate cookie butter spread made from the irresistible biscoff spread aka speculoos.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 7 minutes
Total Time: 22 minutes
Yield: 2 1x

Ingredients

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40 g Dark chocolate, 70% cocoa, finely chopped
30 g Unsalted butter (2 ¼ tbsp), plus extra for greasing moulds
1 Large egg
40 g Sugar (⅓ cup), plus extra for greasing moulds
15 g Flour (2 tbsp)
2 tsp Biscoff/Cookie butter
50 g Whipping cream (¼ cup), to serve, whipped to medium peaks
2 Lotus biscuits, to serve, coarsely crushed

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Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200°C
Using a pastry brush coat the bottom and sides of two small ramekins with butter
Pour some sugar into each and rotate the ramekin, covering the bottom and sides
Pour out excess sugar
Melt dark chocolate and butter over a hot water bath, or in the microwave
To the chocolate mixture add the egg and mix until smooth
Add the flour and sugar and stir until well combined
Pour batter ⅓rd of the way up both ramekins and add a teaspoon of biscoff/cookie butter to the centre of each
Cover with the remaining batter, until ¾ full
Place in oven and bake for 6-7 minutes, or until the cake begins to pull from the sides
Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before running a knife around the edges and placing upside down on a serving plate
Remove the ramekin and serve with whipped cream and crushed lotus/speculoos biscuits