The perfect little lava cake

It's quick, chocolatey, and incredibly delicious.

If soufflé was the dessert of the 1970s, mousse cake the dessert of the '80s, and crème brûlée the dessert of the '90s, molten chocolate cake was surely the dessert of the new millennium. It was everywhere, so popular that it relegated other chocolate desserts to near obscurity.

Known in French as the "moelleux," "fondant," "coulant," or "mi-cuit," the m…