Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 5 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
  • 3 tablespoons cake flour
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • vanilla ice cream, for serving (optional)

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Butter and flour 8 cups in a standard-size muffin pan.
  • In a small saucepan, melt butter. Add milk chocolate and whisk until melted; let cool slightly.
  • In a small bowl, whisk cake flour with all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
  • In a large bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, beat eggs with sugar at medium speed until pale and thick, about 5 minutes.
  • Beat in vanilla extract.
  • Beat in melted chocolate mixture and dry ingredients in 3 additions, scraping down bowl occasionally with a spatula.
  • Stir in remaining chopped chocolate.
  • Spoon cake batter into prepared muffin cups and bake about 22 minutes, until cakes are risen and springy.
  • Let cakes cool in muffin pan 15 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool 15 minutes longer.
  • Serve cakes warm, with ice cream.