Make an Intense and Buttery Molten Chocolate Cake at Home

Make an Intense and Buttery Molten Chocolate Cake at Home
A Fallen Chocolate Cake in Brookline, Mass. This recipe appears in the cookbook "The Perfect Cake." Keller + Keller/America's Test Kitchen via AP
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Fallen chocolate cake, or molten chocolate cake, is an undercooked-in-the-center mound of intense, buttery chocolate cake. We wanted to turn this restaurant-menu standard into a practical recipe for home cooks.

The cover for the cookbook "The Perfect Cake." It includes a recipe for Fallen Chocolate Cakes. (America's Test Kitchen via AP)
The cover for the cookbook "The Perfect Cake." It includes a recipe for Fallen Chocolate Cakes. America's Test Kitchen via AP