Warm Chocolate Fantasy

Ingredients

• Serves 10

• Serving Size: 1 individual cake

• To prepare the ramekins:

• 2 teaspoons cocoa powder

• 2 teaspoons flour

• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted

• For the Warm Chocolate Fantasy:

• 5 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick)

• 4 large eggs, at room temperature

• 1/4 cup cake flour

• 1 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.

2. Sift the cocoa and flour together. Brush ten 4-ounce ramekins with melted butter and dust with the cocoa-flour mixture.

3. Melt the chocolate and unsalted butter over a double boiler.

4. Whip the eggs with a mixer on high speed until pale yellow and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

5. Fold the chocolate mixture into the eggs.

6. Sift the cake flour and sugar together. Fold the flour-sugar mixture into the chocolate-egg mixture.

7. Fill the ramekins about 3/4 full.

8. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. The centers should still be runny and the outside edges should be firm. (This can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator up to 2 days.)

9. Reheat in the microwave on low power for two or three 20-second blasts, until warm. Unmold onto a plate and serve with low-fat ice cream or nonfat frozen yogurt.