Tip top choco­late express for those choco­late crav­ings past mid­night. Ready in 20 min­utes top chrono!

Ingre­di­ents:

• 1 cup ( 200 g — 7 oz) 70% cacao choco­late chips
• 2/3 cup (150 g — 5 oz) salted butter
• 3/4 cup (150 g — 5 oz) sugar
• 3 eggs + 1 egg yolk

Instant Grat­i­fi­ca­tion:

Pre­heat the oven to 360 degrees.

Place the choco­late chips into a ceramic bowl that you will have set inside a larger pot on the stove­top (twice the size of the bowl or so)  filled with about 1 to 2 inches of water. Bring the water to a boil stir­ring the mix­ture until it has melted com­pletely. Make sure the water doesn’t spill over into the ceramic bowl and adjust the heat accord­ingly. (this tech­nic is called “bain-marie”, lit­er­ally Mary’s bath…not sure what they did to Mary then.…). This should take 3 min­utes tops. Once the choco­late is melted, slowly add the but­ter cut into small pieces while stir­ring the choco­late, until all has melted.

Beat the eggs and the sugar together with an elec­tric mixer until the mix­ture has tripled in vol­ume. 2 min­utes tops.
(Alter­na­tively, you can beat the egg whites sep­a­rately until they become firm. This will make the cake much lighter, but will also take much more time. You will need to slowly incor­po­rate the fluffy whites into the chocolate/butter mix­ture, spoon­ing around it again and again.….and again…and I find that for a quick fix after mid­night, this method is a lit­tle overkill. You may pass out before it reaches the oven. We are talk­ing about the I WANT CHOCOLATE NEAAAAOOOOOOW ENVY!!)

Finally, slowly pour in the melted butter/chocolate into the sugar/eggs while stir­ring del­i­cately but con­stantly until the mix­ture is homogeneous.

Pour the final mix into a dish pie. Use a sil­i­cone one or rub some but­ter onto a ceramic dish and sprin­kle with flour. The idea is to avoid the cake stick­ing to the dish… although that may not be a prob­lem if you take the whole dish into bed to devour it like a bar­bar­ian before a good night sleep. Trust me only the god­lier of good­ness of dreams will follow.

Bake in the pre­heated oven for 15–20 min­utes.
Voila, its sup­posed to be crusty out­side and melted inside. Insanely deli­cious. Add some whip cream and vanilla ice cream for total deca­dence at 3 am.
Really good the next day too when you have come off your horse.
Enjoy