
You can’t beat a classic! This Chocolate Molten Lava Cake is a rich chocolate cake with a liquid molten center. Best served with ice cream!
Molten lava cakes get a makeover with these S'mores Molten Lava Cakes – because s'mores are meant to be enjoyed year-round!
This post has been sponsored by The Hershey Company, but all opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting me and the companies I partner with.
One of the most frequently asked questions I get as a blogger during a casual conversation with someone, is where I come up with ideas for recipes. We all know I'm a huge cookbook lover, so I get a lot of inspiration from cookbooks. And every once in a while, a great idea will hit me when I'm not even thinking about it. (Surprisingly, I get most of these tidbits of inspiration while I'm in the shower – must be the only place I'm not thinking about the daily to-do list so I can actually let inspiration in!) But, one of my favorite forms of recipe development is taking a product and creating a recipe around it. I love to walk the aisles of the grocery store, looking for something that I haven't seen before or tried before, and thinking up ways to include that ingredient in a recipe.
So of course, I was excited when my friends at HERSHEY'S Kitchens asked me to make a recipe using their new HERSHEY'S S'mores Baking Pieces. You guys – these are right up my alley. HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Chips, Graham Cookie Pieces, and Mini Marshmallows. So fun, and so good! I will fully admit to just snacking on these out of the bag more than once.
Of course, you can just make cookies with these baking pieces, and they would be amazing. (There is actually a recipe for cookies included on the bag!) But I decided to try something else, and the wheels in my head started turning. Do I make brownies? Do I try for an impressive cake?
But then it came to me – molten lava cake. My husband and I just celebrated our 12th anniversary, and anytime I am celebrating my husband, or baking just for him, it is always about the molten lava cake. He loves it so much. So of course, I had to try a S'mores Molten Lava Cake in honor of my husband!
I do have to say, though, that molten lava cakes can be a little tricky to get the timing just right. If you don't bake them long enough, they are all lava, but if you over bake them, then you just have a cake. But when you get them just right, they are chocolate perfection. Which is maybe why my husband keeps asking for them over and over again. And whenever I can make my husband happy, it makes me happy. These lava cakes are a great way to bake happy!
To see how to bake perfect lava cakes, check out my tips at the bottom of this post!
For these S'mores Lava Cakes, I used the HERSHEY'S S'mores Baking Pieces to bring in the s'mores flavors. A chocolate lava cake gets a sprinkle of the pieces in the center before baking for a little surprise. Then, when you go to serve the cakes, they get a drizzle of an easy marshmallow sauce and more of the HERSHEY'S S'mores Baking Pieces to top them off. These cakes are not only delicious, but they look pretty impressive as well.
Now that the holiday season is upon us, it's a great time to try out these S'mores Molten Lava Cakes. Lava cakes are super impressive for guests! But, don't just save these for the holiday months – they are a s'mores recipe that is good all year long!
Molten lava cakes get a makeover with these S'mores Molten Lava Cakes – because s'mores are meant to be enjoyed year-round!
This post has been sponsored by The Hershey Company, but all opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting me and the companies I partner with.