Thomas Keller’s Molten Chocolate

This is the ultimate in chocolate: a warm, baked-to-order individual hot soufflé-like mousse with a crackled, brownie-like exterior enclosing a molten chocolate center.

This dessert is so good, so essence-of-chocolate, that it evokes the timeless chocolate puddings, moist cakes and warm soufflés that linger in memory. It’s the creation of the amply gifted Thomas Keller, whose restaurant, French Laundry