Chocolate Volcanoes

INGREDIENTS
200g top quality dark chocolate (min 75% cocoa solids)
125 g butter
75 g flour, sifted
175g caster sugar
4 eggs
100g ground hazelnuts or almonds
crème fraiche or greek yoghurt to serve

METHOD
-Melt chocolate and butter in a glass bowl over a pan of simmering water, or on medium heat in microwave in one-minute bursts (remembering to stir continuously).
- Lightly beat eggs in small bowl.
- Combine flour, sugar and ground nuts in larger bowl.
- Add melted butter and chocolate to dry mix, stir well, cool.
- Add eggs to mixture.
- Grease four 200ml or six 150 ml ramekins with butter.
- Divide mixture evenly into ramekins.
- Bake at 180°, four for approximately 18 minutes, and six at approximately 12 minutes.
- Serve hot with crème fraiche or greek yoghurt.

COMMENTS
These are delightfully runny in the centre. You can either dig into your ramekin, or invert onto a plate, which will cause the pudding to explode lava-like. As the pudding is very rich, you can choose to make smaller or larger ones to your liking. Baking times are completely dependent on your oven, and puddings should look uncooked and jiggly in the centre.

SERVINGS
4 - 6

SOURCE
Jules, from House & Garden