Warm Double-chocolate Brownie Cakes

Total Time: 1 hr 22 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 22 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 5 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
• 3 tablespoons cake flour
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• vanilla ice cream, for serving (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 butter and flour 8 cups in a standard-size muffin pan.
• 3 in a small saucepan, melt butter. add milk chocolate and whisk until melted; let cool slightly.
• 4 in a small bowl, whisk cake flour with all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
• 5 in a large bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, beat eggs with sugar at medium speed until pale and thick, about 5 minutes.
• 6 beat in vanilla extract.
• 7 beat in melted chocolate mixture and dry ingredients in 3 additions, scraping down bowl occasionally with a spatula.
• 8 stir in remaining chopped chocolate.
• 9 spoon cake batter into prepared muffin cups and bake about 22 minutes, until cakes are risen and springy.
• 10 let cakes cool in muffin pan 15 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool 15 minutes longer.
• 11 serve cakes warm, with ice cream.