So you want to convince someone how much you love them? Or celebrate unrequited love in true Halloween fashion? A bleeding heart should do the trick. This delightfully decadent Raspberry and White Chocolate Lava Cake tastes as delicious as a bleeding heart ever could!
Where has Halloween been all my life? It’s officially my favourite holiday. Except it’s not a holiday. Why is that by the way? Why isn’t Halloween a national holiday?
Growing up in New Zealand and Australia, Halloween was never really a big deal. I mean we do have parties and candy on sale and etc., but costumes and trick-or-treating were never a big part in that culture. And that happens to be my favourite part! Which I guess is because Halloween appeals to the weirdo in me! 🙂 A weirdness that I always embrace and am proud of. And something I will most definitely pass on to my kids one day too, while we celebrate Halloween no matter where we live in the world!
White Chocolate & Raspberry Ganache
Mr K is hardly any different and that’s totally why we work. And maybe also why we both got excited by the idea of making a deliciously creepy cake for Halloween.
So while this could also work very well for a Valentine’s day celebration, I love that I was able to stay true to my nature, and turn that sentiment into something that worked even better for Halloween! 😀
Have you guys heard of the Overly Attached Girlfriend before? You can imagine this as the sort of cake she would make for her man, or woman. 🙂
Or if you’re on the other end of the spectrum, and just want to creep your SO out like my girl April Ludgate – this is the right dessert for you!
The result – this glorious Raspberry and White Chocolate Lava Cake, aka The Bleeding Heart! We got to eat a few failed attempts in the making of this, since I kept retesting the recipe till I got consistently delicious results that looked both creepy and great at the same time. While I love making chocolate lava cake, making a white chocolate lava cake proved to be slightly more challenging than I expected. Plus I wanted a really healthy dose of raspberry in there too.
So what I realized was that the addition of raspberry puree and white chocolate made it a little harder to get the desired results in the conventional way of making molten lava cake. Instead, you could think of this as a cheat’s version of molten lava cake where I add raspberry ganache in the middle to replicate the “molten lava” or the “bloody insides” of a bleeding heart cake. This way you get consistently good results.
- 4 oz raspberries, pureed
- 5 oz white chocolate, finely chopped
- 5 oz white chocolate, finely chopped
- 4 oz unsalted butter
- 3 whole eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 3.5 oz white sugar
- 60g AP flour, sifted
- 2 tsp dutch process cocoa powder, sifted (this is more for the colour, you can use regular cocoa powder too)
- ¼ tsp super red gel colouring
- 1 tsp vanilla
- A generous pinch of salt
- Place the finely chopped white chocolate in a heat-proof bowl. Set aside.
- Strain the raspberry puree to remove the seeds. You should have about ⅓ of a cup of puree.
- Heat the puree on low heat in a saucepan, until it just starts to boil.
- Add this raspberry puree to the chopped white chocolate and stir to melt the chocolate. It should become thick and glossy. Transfer this to a flat dish (so that it cools down faster) and store it in the freezer to harden (but still scoopable) - for about an hour.
- Once hardened, scoop one tablespoon of the mix, flatten it to a disc and place it on a parchment paper. Repeat with remaining ganache to make as many discs as you want. Store in the freezer for a few hours, until required.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C with a baking tray inside. Generously grease six, ½ cup capacity ramekins and coat them with flour. Set aside until the batter is ready.
- Melt the butter in a small heat proof bowl in the microwave. The butter should be completely melted and a little hot (not boiling).
- Add the chopped white chocolate and mix till it melts and is smooth. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, place the eggs, egg yolks and white sugar and whisk until well-mixed. DO NOT whisk until the eggs are frothy and pale - only whisk until everything is combined.
- Add the melted chocolate and whisk to combine well. Add the vanilla and red colouring, whisking them into the batter, until you get a deep red colour.
- Whisk the AP flour, salt and cocoa powder together in a separate bowl, to mix well. Add this flour mix into the egg and chocolate mix in two batches, mixing well between each batch. Use a hand whisk or spoon, since you should not over-beat this.
- Once mixed through, pour the batter into the 6 prepared ramekins to fill them about ⅔ of the way up. Remove the raspberry & white chocolate ganache discs from the freezer and place one in each of the ramekins. Spoon in the rest of the batter on top, to cover the ganache disk.
- Place the ramekins on the preheated baking tray and bake in the preheated oven for 14-16 minutes. Keep checking after the 10 minute mark, and remove the cakes when the tops have browned slightly, and they are wobbly in the center, but set at the edges.
- Turn the cake out onto a dish (be careful as the ramekin is very hot at this point, so hold it with a towel), dust it with some cocoa powder or powdered sugar (the top might seem a little underdone because of the ganache, but that's OK, do not worry) and serve immediately with some creme fraiche or whipped cream and some fresh raspberries!
Decorations
The white chocolate discs you see here are completely optional, but I loved making them. I just tempered white chocolate and coloured 3/4 of it with red colouring powder.
Next I dolloped this with the rest of the tempered plain white chocolate on acetate paper and spread it out to a thickness of roughly 3-5 mm. Once they were set, I cut out circles with a warmed cookie cutter and piped my decoration and message using regular coloured buttercream.
And you can pipe whatever message you want on those discs too. 🙂
And this is the final result. I have to say I was giddy with excitement over this and it turned out to be oh so delicious and decadent! But my most favourite part of course is what you see in that GIF below. Taking it hot out of the oven, and then cutting into it and watching that ooey-gooey “bloody” center just ooze out and spread out over my plate. Oh so bloody satisfying! 😀
Not my best gif by any means, more shaky than usual. I was just too excited to get into that bloody mess inside!
The raspberry and white chocolate ganache works perfectly in this recipe when it’s melted like this. It’s got that perfect texture and consistency for a very creepy “bloody” effect! The lava cake has a very healthy dose of raspberry flavour too, and boy that ganache in the middle is just so addictive.
Look at that bloody massacre!
Did you ever think a bleeding heart could taste this good? Unless of course, you’re the kind that Halloween’s all about. In that case, dig in. Don’t mind me standing here, smacking my lips, looking at that bloody mess.
So much bloooood. So much goooood. Mmmmmm…..
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I love Overly Attached Girlfriend. My two kids love finding and making memes! It’s like a second language to them! I would eat my heart out with these cakes!!!
What a fab idea for Halloween, I love white chocolate & raspberries, a delicious combination. Thanks for sharing Dini 🙂
Thank you Sarah! 🙂 I love chocolate and raspberries too 🙂
These are the most awesome lava cakes I’ve ever seen. I love a dessert with a potentially macabre twist !
Me too Christine! 🙂 There’s something pretty awesome about gory stuff!
SO perfect for Halloween Dini! That gif is just incredible – you have nailed the whole bleeding out thing. Love the raspberry white chocolate flavour too ! <3
This is sooo funnn! And oh my gosh your pictures are amazing!
Hi Pretty Lady. Thank you for sharing your wonderful creativity with us at Friday Favorites! Your cake is perfectly spooky for Halloween!!! I hope you will join us again next week! Christine at Must Love Home
Your cake looks gorgeous! Great job! I really like the chocolate discs too. They’re a nice finishing touch. I pinned this to try later.
I want to be this cake’s overly attached girlfriend! This looks 100% crave-worthy, and your cleverness made me LOL. 🙂
Thank you Jessie!! 😀 I want to be the overly attached girlfriend to this cake too!
How fun is this bleeding heart molten lava cakes. You have quite the knack for experimenting in the kitchen. I am just a kid at heart too and love the kids in costumes and the trick or treating. Bummer we are in Hong Kong as they dont really celebrate that at all here. I guess that is just more trick or treat candy for me… LOL Just pinned!
Thank you Bobbi!! 🙂 It used to be the same in NZ too, they never celebrated it the way it’s celebrated in the US! No trick or treating 🙁 but you’re right… the silver lining is that there is always more candy for me 😉 hahaha!
This cake is awesome! A perfectly delish and spooky treat just in time for Halloween!
Thank you Rachel 🙂
I love this post so much! The lovely, but fun and clever lava cake, the GIF that makes me want to lick the screen, and the humorous meme in the middle of it all! 🙂
Thank you Stacey!! Love the overly attached GF 😀 She makes me laugh!
Dini you have hopped on the Halloween wagon in true fashion my friend. This is a ghoulishly creepy and yummy cake! I did think that it could be a valentine cake too. Your lava cakes run perfectly. I think I bake mine to long. They never turn out. My cake heart is whining.
Thank you Julie!! 🙂 If I was president, I would want Halloween to be a public holiday! 😀
I’ve had that problem with lava cakes too 🙁 The white chocolate cake was more finicky, but adding that ganache in the middle is a great way to make sure you have a molten centre!
That Gif is the real deal! literally made me salivate . it’s just so ooey gooey!
Thank you Khadija! 🙂
Watching that gif just makes me want to make one now so that I can enjoy all that ooey gooey deliciousness!
Thank you Abeer! 🙂
Hey Dini,
Don’t call I cheating 😉 you just make it work! This Looks really nice! Nothing more funny than watching the blood flow :)! I think it would be beautiful with dark chocolate too! Maybe with a mango ganache :). Many possibilities!
Thanks for sharing!
Mango Ganache would be awesome!! I have made dark chocolate lava cake and I can definitely confirm that it is absolutely delicious too! 😀 Thank you Simon!
AAAAAAAaahhhhh this is sick…. in a really good I want to eat it now way.
Sick in a good way is excellent!! 😀 Thank you so much!
OMG that gif like I am drooling on y keyboard!! wow!! Can I ask you smth, how did you do it, by taking multiple pictures or a short video? help me please 🙂 thanks!
Thank you Katalina! 🙂 Making gifs is pretty easy! 🙂 I’ll email you 🙂
Now that is one dramatic cake!! What a fun idea for Halloween or Valentine’s day. Heck… I would eat it any time… I love raspberry and chocolate. 🙂
Me too Ramona! 🙂 Thank you!
Hi Dini, lava cake is a dessert I can’t resist. I never tried a white chocolate one though. This one looks so yummy I almost grabbed a spoon and dig into my screen 😉
Thank you so much Dalia! 😀