I’m still feeling moderately crappy, so I decided it was time to pull out the big guns.

I picked up fresh organic strawberries today, I have whipping cream, and I just prepared (minus the baking) molten lava chocolate cakes.

Mis en Place!

Melting the chocolate and the butter. That would be 12 ounces of bittersweet chocolate and 2 sticks of butter.

Mixing the eggs, sugar, and vanilla.

Adding the melted chocolate mixture.

Pouring the batter into the buttered ramekins.

Cakes are now in the oven. (That is, three are in the oven, four more are in the fridge to be baked tomorrow or Monday.) For the curious, the recipe is Molten Lava Chocolate souffle cakes from The All-American Dessert Book by Nancy Baggett. I made these last summer for my birthday, and I am hoping they are every bit as good as I remember.

Cakes going into the oven.

Cooling for six minutes while I make the whipped cream.

Molten Lava Chocolate Souffle Cake with fresh whipped cream and strawberries.

Best part? Michael cleaned up.

Now I’m going to curl up and read another book.