Chocolate lava cake is a classic dessert crowd-pleaser and Sharefood’s Digital Marketer Amira’s guilty pleasure. However, it is also a challenging recipe that can get quite gelat or heavy. To make this dessert healthier and easier to prepare, try Amira’s Gluten-Free Air Fried Lava Cake with Nutella!
This recipe has all of the warm, chocolatey, and delightfully fudgy goodness a lava cake has but with lesser sugar and no flour. For the oozy chocolatey center, we add a spoonful of Nutella for a nutty flavour against the richness of the cake. Removing flour and reducing sugar to the minimum make the cake gluten-free for those with gluten intolerance or who are watching their carbohydrate consumption. Hence, this lava cake earns the Asian praise for being “not too sweet” which is great for everyone. When we said this lava cake is a crowd-pleaser, we certainly mean it!
We also reduce the number of kitchen appliances needed. For this Gluten-Free Air Fried Lava Cake with Nutella recipe, we are not going to whisk the egg whites to a stiff peak so you can keep your stand mixer where it is. Instead, the only kitchen appliance you will need is the air fryer! For another simple recipe only using an air fryer, do check out our 5 Minutes Air-Fried Steak and Salad recipe here!
But as lava cakes are temperature sensitive, do monitor it closely and stick to the recipe. If you air fry it just a minute longer, the chocolate centre will be cooked through. You will get a chocolate cake with a hazelnut centre instead of hazelnut lava.
We also recommend pairing the Gluten-Free Air Fried Lava Cake with Nutella with berries. Get your favourite berries like raspberries or strawberries for a citrusy note that cuts the rich sweetness of the chocolate. Making this recipe will cost you approximately just $5 to make as of February 2023:
| Semi-sweet | $1 |
| Butter | $0.80 |
| 3 eggs | $1.20 |
| Sugar, Cocoa Powder, salt, Nutella | $1 |
| Berries | $1 |
- 85 g chocolate chips bittersweet or semisweet (55.5%)
- 30 g butter cubed
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tbsp nutella
- Raspberries & Strawberries optional
- 2 ramekins lined with parchment paper at the bottom
- Add chocolate chips and butter in a heatproof bowl. Place them in the air fryer, heat it at 160OC for 1 min. After 20sec, pull out the tray and stir the mixture. Put the tray back and let it continue to heat. Repeat the same step at every 20s interval until the chocolate and butter is fully melted. #Tip: Heating the mixture longer may risk the chocolate getting burnt.
- Remove the chocolate mixture from the tray and let it cool to room temperature.
- Add in sugar, eggs and egg yolk, cocoa powder, and salt into the chocolate mixture. Stir till it is fully combined.
- With the ramekin lined with parchment paper, fill the chocolate batter up to ¾. Add a tbsp of hazelnut spread into each ramekin.
- Heat up the 190OC, 11 mins.
- When the air fryer reaches 9 mins, remove the tray and place the ramekins in. Let it air fry for 9 min.
- Once it’s down, remove the tray and let it cool slightly.
- Run the knife around the edge of the cakes, and turn out onto the serving plate.
- Garnish with raspberries, strawberries, and icing sugar and ready to serve.
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