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Sticky Chocolate Cake

4.5

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Sticky Chocolate Cake with a piece scooped out and on to a plate
Photograph by Isa Zapata, food styling by Pearl Jones and Thu Buser, prop styling by Sean Dooley

Inspired by Swedish classic kladdkaka, or sticky chocolate cake, this spoonable chocolate dessert combines the oozy goodness of a molten lava cake with the crackly shell of a good brownie. You’ll find that the edges are set, but the cake will get gooier as you get closer to the center (even if you overcook it a bit). Bolstered by instant espresso, nutty brown butter, and both Dutch-process cocoa powder and bittersweet chocolate, it delivers deep chocolate flavor balanced by just-right sweetness. It’s just the cake to satisfy every chocolate craving.

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