Thai Tea Lava Cakes Recipe

Turns out the Thai tea kaya I made is also useful for my Thai tea lava cakes recipe.

This super easy lava cake uses my silky smooth, homemade Thai tea kaya as the lava centre, with a milk chocolate cake case.

If you undercook this a bit, you'll also get a little chocolate lava too, and if you cook it for a bit longer, you'll get a fully cooked chocolate cake with just the Thai tea lava. Technically you can't really overcook this as the Thai tea lava won't cook solid, but it could dry out and thicken / be less impressively runny when you cut the cake. So it's still worth keeping an eye on the cooking time.

I like serving my lava cakes with clotted cream to cut through the sweetness, but ice cream works well, too.

And yes, you can also use my pandan kaya recipe to make a pandan kaya lava cake version of this instead.

You can also watch me make this on my YouTube channel, Tashcakes:

Ready? Let's go.

(Makes two Thai tea lava cakes.)

Ingredients:

40g unsalted butter
40g milk chocolate
15g caster sugar
1 egg
30g plain flour
Pinch of salt
2 tbsp homemade Thai tea kaya
A little additional butter (for greasing the moulds)
Cream/ice cream and berries, to serve

Method:

1. Generously butter two small pudding moulds with the additional unsalted butter, and line the bottoms with discs of baking parchment.

2. Place a heatproof bowl on top of a pan of simmering water, making sure the bottom doesn't touch the water. Melt the chocolate, butter and sugar together in the bowl, stirring until well-combined. You can also melt these ingredients together in a microwave in short bursts.

3. Take off the heat, leave to cool for two minutes and stir in the egg, flour and salt.

4. Spoon a quarter of the mixture into each of your two pudding moulds.

5. Drop a tablespoonful of your Thai tea kaya into the centre of each, and top with the rest of the lava cake batter.

6. Preheat the oven to 220°C. Once the oven's come up to temperature, bake the cakes about eight minutes (oven temperatures vary, so you want to be careful yours doesn't overcook).

7. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for two minutes, or until you can handle the tins enough to turn the cakes out. Then plate the cakes up and serve with some cream or ice cream and berries.

Enjoy, and have fun.