Avoid to the side, Grilled Alaska. Only one dessert can rule the waves, and it’s not the 1950s dessert paraded around the dining room. It’s the Festival’s melted chocolate cake, a dessert that’s neither ostentatious nor unique, but the Festival does it so well that it puts desserts on luxury yachts to shame.
Not only is this dessert worth ordering at least once during your Carnival cruise, if not every night, but it’s also very simple to make at home when you want to delight guests or bring yourself back. great stay on a gray weekend night. We’ll even give you the recipe.
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Carnival’s most popular dessert
On a Carnival cruise, a melted chocolate cake is essentially a lava cake or molten chocolate cake that has a hard top but is warm and runny on the inside. It is served in ramekin, like a souffle. It pairs perfectly with the cool, cooling vanilla ice cream and chocolate flavor — but eat it quickly or your ice cream will melt on top.
The dessert is so popular that Carnival offers it every night on the cruise on the Always Available menu in the main dining room.
Interestingly, Carnival offers a slightly different version of this dessert in Chibang! restaurant, found on Mardi Gras Celebrations and Carnival. C-Bang Chocolate is described as “textured chocolate, salted marshmallow ganache, ginger and caramel ice cream.” In fact, it’s a standalone chocolate cake with a moist middle that tastes like a melted cake, with only the addition of flour to make the cake firmer and less watery.
Why is Carnival’s melted chocolate cake so popular? I’m not a trained food critic, but I find that chocolate cake is difficult to get right in a restaurant setting. Often the cake itself is too dry, or topped with a layer of icing that is too sweet, or has layers of nuts or coconut or fruit filling that someone objected to. The festival’s melted chocolate cake is simple because it’s all chocolate. The molten interior is designed so that they are the opposite of dry.
The line’s chefs have mastered this recipe; it always comes out the same way, with the perfect crust on top and a warm, melting middle. I’ve seen cruise lines spoil easy-to-make dishes, such as chocolate chip cookie desserts in a pan, so I can assure you that constantly creating desserts simple on a large scale more complex than you think.
Please don’t get me wrong – luxury cruise lines do a great job with desserts. But sometimes they try too hard to create a dish that is more complicated or impressive than it tastes. Personally, I would choose a simple chocolate dessert that is very well made with some froufrou mix with choux pastry and Chantilly cream, an emulsion of one or a custard of the other. The carnival cake is a dessert with mass appeal (much like the travel itinerary itself), using simple ingredients and elevating them to something sublime.
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Festive melted chocolate cake recipe
Whether you’re simply curious about how this decadent dessert is made or want to recreate it when you get to the mainland, check out the melted chocolate cake recipe below. It involves only six ingredients, most or all of those you already have in your kitchen. The only specialized steam items on the list are ramekins; If you don’t have any at home, you can easily buy some online or at a home store, such as Bed Bath & Beyond or Target.
Element
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
- 3 ounces sweet chocolate (commonly known as German sweet chocolate; if you can’t find it, you can substitute with 3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate plus 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar )
- 6 ounces unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 3 ounces sugar (preferably fine or superfine sugar, but regular granules will work)
- 2 ounces all-purpose flour
Guide
- Melt chocolate and butter together. (Be careful – chocolate is very flammable!)
- Beat eggs and sugar for a few minutes.
- Add flour.
- Add the melted chocolate to the egg mixture, stirring while pouring to keep the warm chocolate from cooking the eggs.
- Pour the batter evenly over the four greased ramekins.
- Arrange the ramekins on a rimmed baking tray and pour some water around the bottom of the tray to create a water bath.
- Bake the molten cake in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Serve with vanilla ice cream, and enjoy!
Don’t trust your baking skills? For chefs during Carnival, melting chocolate cake is easy. Watch as they show you how.
bottom line
You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on a cruise to try the best dessert at sea. The carnival is one of the most affordable cruise lines, but its melted chocolate cake is a million-dollar treat—whether you sample it at sea or bake it at home. .
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