The Cake That Hides A Dramatic Surprise
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There are cakes, which when cut, tumble out a hidden torrent of rainbow sprinkles or M&Ms.
This cake also boasts a surprise center, but a far more sophisticated one.
Cut into it with a fork, and a gush of melty, brilliant-green, matcha-chocolate will flow out instead.
This genius recipe for “Matcha Chocolate Lava Cakes” is from “The Honeysuckle Cookbook” (Rodale, 2020) by Dzung Lewis, a former Bay Area financial analyst who moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for cooking with her YouTube channel “Honeysuckle.”
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There are several techniques to create the molten center of lava cakes. This one relies on freezing matcha ganache — melted white chocolate mixed with matcha and a little oil — in an ice cube tray until solid. The frozen cube then gets set into the cake batter, so that during baking, the frozen ganache slowly liquifies within the set cake.
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