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The Christmas and New Year’s Eves are coming fast. There is little time to decide what festivity dessert you will be preparing to bewilder the senses of your guests and yourself. What will you prepare as a pleasant surprise to end your dinner? The simple things are always the best ones. There is little chance of anything going wrong if you stick to wonderful chocolate cakes. You see, these cakes come in single servings, and you can even personalize them for your guests if you want to. Do you have a relative or friend that particularly loves berries? Another one dies for milk chocolate? Another one for yellow cream, smarties, gummy bears, and hazelnuts? Go ahead and make that special chocolate cake with that personalized ingredient. Just remember which one is which!
This recipe is really simple and fast. Just remember to add one hour to the preparation time as you will need to freeze the cakes for one hour prior to serving.

Ingredients:
- 100 grams of dark chocolate
- 100 grams of butter
- 60 grams of sugar
- 20 grams of flour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 40 grams of white chocolate (or your surprise ingredient)
- 2 eggs

Preparation:

The above quantities are enough for 4 chocolate cakes.
Melt the chocolate and butter together in a low temperature bain marie. Cut the butter into cubes, then stir occasionally. Add the sugar when the chocolate and butter are melted.
Meanwhile, beat the eggs together with a pinch of salt and finally add the chocolate and butter mix that you have previously prepared. Add the sifted flour and continue stirring.
After buttering and flouring single use cups or a mini muffin pan holes, pour the cream in filling no more than half and let cool.
When the cream is at room temperature, set a cube of white chocolate or your surprise ingredient in the middle of the mold. Now put everything in the freezer for about 1 hour. Remember to add the surprise ingredient or the white chocolate, otherwise when the cream is frozen you will not be able to do it anymore!
When it is almost serving time, bake for 7 to 9 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, then leave to cool a little and serve out of the mold, sprinkled with powdered sugar or bitter chocolate.

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