Favorite Chocolate Lava Cake

I bought a pack of Valrhona chocolate from Europe months ago.  Guess what, it sits till it has expired last month again!!  It’s one of the most expensive chocolate I have ever bought (like $10 Euro for a pack of 250 gm).  Anyways, I’m treating my guests with Valrhona chocolate lava cake.  The recipe was combined from a few recipes I had read, but so far this version is fool-proofed and take no more than 30 minutes to finish.  With just simple decoration, you can definitely impress your guests (icing sugar, toasted coconut shreds is my favorite).  Mom just picked some “organic” blueberries from her backyard.  Even they were tiny in size, they were surprisingly sweet (considering this is already end of September, all fruit harvest should be over by now)!!

Lava cake is still my husband’s favorite homemade dessert.  You need a big scoop of vanilla ice cream to pair with the oozing chocolate center.  After every dinner with this dessert, there would be at least one guest asked me for the recipe.  Here I’m sharing with all of you:

Chocolate Lava Cake

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Half Cooked Egg with Truffle Oil

I saw this recipe from a chinese TV show months ago, but didn’t copy down the method / the exact amount of ingredients.  It was so simple and easy to remember, I just always wanted to try it.  Finally this past weekend, just happened I have every single ingredients in my house (except I have to get my husband to run to my mom’s house to grab a few more eggs).  I never tasted it because pregnant women cannot eat raw eggs, but I think no one can resist the silky texture of the Japanese style “hotspring” egg.

Hotspring Egg with Truffle Oil

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Pistachio Cookies (using leftover from Pistachio mousse)

I finally move into the new home a month ago and so far had loved my new kitchen.  Because of the pregnancy, I’m cooking and baking a lot less than used to.  Nevertheless, I feel obligated to cook up any ingredients found in my pantry before I will be even busier after my baby comes to the world.

So I made the pistachio mousse cake last week.  The pistachio nibs (along with some sugar / egg / milk, so I should call it pistachio paste) filtered out was a waste if it’s down in the garbage.  I decided to make cookies out of it.

Pistachio Oatmeal Cookies using leftover from making pistachio mousse

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