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Mini Chocolate Cakes With Chocolate Sauce

If you're looking for a dessert that's effortlessly delicious and perfect for parties, these Super Easy Mini Chocolate Cakes with Decadent Chocolate Sauce are your answer. This recipe combines simple wet and dry ingredients, enhanced by the addition of hot water for an irresistibly moist and rich chocolatey texture. Topped with a luscious chocolate sauce, these mini cakes are not only adorable but also guaranteed to satisfy any chocolate lover's cravings.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate muffins, cupcakes, mini chocolate cakes
Servings: 12
Author: The Ovenist

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients:

  • 130 g all purpose flour
  • 45 g cocoa powder
  • 180 g sugar
  • 1 tsp 4g baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 3 g salt
  • ½ tbsp instant coffee (2g)
  • Pinch chili powder

Wet Ingredients:

  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup 95g oil
  • ½ cup milk+1/2 tbsp vinegar mixed
  • ½ tsp vanilla essence
  • ½ cup hot water

Chocolate Sauce:

  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • 1 tin thick cream 160g Puck
  • 1 tsp instant coffee
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180℃. Grease and flour mini cake trays or muffin trays.
  • Whisk together dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
  • Beat the wet Ingredients till combined then beat in the dry ingredients. Add hot water and beat on low speed till just combined.
  • Pour, bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of the tray comes out with few moist crumbs.
  • Cool a bit then top with chocolate sauce and serve! I prefer to serve these warm!

For Chocolate Sauce

  • Chop 100g of dark chocolate and melt it on a double boiler with cream, coffee and pinch of salt. Remove from stove and let it cool slightly.

Notes

Note: If you want frosting, let the chocolate sauce cool in the fridge for a couple of hours, it will turn into frosting!