Because I am a waiter, I can’t help but jump at every opportunity to assist someone when it comes to matters of food and restaurant life. Serving is in my blood. Literally, my veins course with water, salt, proteins, red and white blood cells, platelets, a few ounces of tequila and some serving, so when I was reading the Chili’s Facebook page and saw that someone wanted to know how to reheat their Chocolate Molten Lava Cake, I wanted to help this woman. Never mind that Chili’s already answered her question with a half-assed answer telling her to put it in the microwave for thirty seconds. That might be an adequate way to reheat a Chocolate Molten Lava Cake, but this Chili’s customer deserves a better answer and I am here to serve. Yes, Carolyn, you could be a Basic Betty and put it in the microwave for thirty seconds, but don’t you deserve more? After all, if you are treating yourself to the luxury of a dessert from one of America’s finest restaurants, you should want it reheated to perfection. Here you go:
- Remove the cake from the plastic to-go container. Do this very carefully, for you do not want the cake to collapse. It is a delicate work of confectionary art and must be handled with care by the hands of a virgin. If a virgin is unavailable, plastic gloves are fine.
- Gently place the cake on a piece of ceramic earthenware that has never before seen the light of day. You can also use a slab of marble, solid quartz (not Silestone or some manufactured man-made quartz bullshit), Verano glass or a cedar plank made from the trees of Galilee. If none of these are available, a cookie sheet covered in aluminum foil is fine.
- Cover the cake with a hand-blown Chihuly glass bowl so it will distribute the heat evenly. There are no substitutions for this bowl. If you don’t have one, give up now and throw the Chocolate Molten Lave Cake into the trash can, because it will basically be a piece of garbage if you skip this step.
- Place the cake into a wood burning pizza oven that is heated to exactly 204.444 degrees celsius. It must be placed directly into the center of the oven and not off by even a fraction of an inch. This is what will ensure an even warming so that the chocolate lava will heat up to just the right amount and spew from its warm center at the correct viscosity. If you don’t have a pizza oven, a regular conventional oven will be fine as long is it is a model from 2017 and later.
- Set your timer for 7 minutes. Ideally, the timer will be of the hourglass variety with white grains of sand from a secret beach in Thailand. If not that, an egg timer will be fine.
- While the cake is warming, you should play a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565.” That piece is 14 minutes long, so you will need to play it at twice its normal speed so that it will end at precisely the same time as the last grain of sand falls in the hour glass. A simple software program or app will help you play the piece at the correct speed.
- After seven minutes, have the virgin remove the cake from the oven and then have her remove the bowl. (If the virgin is unavailable or has lost her virginity in the last seven minutes, using an oven mitt is fine.) Throw the bowl away, for it has now peaked in usefulness and will never be worthy of anything again.
- Your Chocolate Molten Lava Cake is now ready. Top with Blue Bell vanilla ice cream and enjoy with a silver spoon from Marie Antoinette’s collection of French silverware. If that is unavailable, the plastic one from Chili’s is fine.
You’re welcome, Carolyn.
Heather
I needed this laugh today. You’re the best 😉
The CMCLC Loving sisters
My sister and I have been Chili’s Molten Chocolate Lava Cake (CMCLC) snobs since we were virgins, yet we never had the opportunity to eat it reheated, then… As I mentioned, we were CMCLC snobs, so we would only eat it when it came out of the secret CMCLC magical oven. Adulthood and many of the circumstances around such life-altering aging reality have forced us to order this mouth-watering delicacy to go. And because we are such CMCLC snobs we had to make sure we did this beautiful sister-bonding treat justice. Your instructions to reheat this piece of heaven at home have helped us do this almost right! We were just lacking the virgin. We considered waiting until morning when my 3 and 2 year old virgin nieces would be awake, so they could help us with 2 of the very important steps to success, but we decided sharing between us two was enough sharing already… a CMCLC is only really shareable for two, those who know, know. So although we have yet been able to enjoy this deliciousness to its upmost lusciousness, we enjoyed it quite a bit. We’ll ask the nieces to help when we get two CMCLCs. Thank you for your instructions and care for our CMCLC-loving souls! We look forward for enlightening instructions on other amazing treats!
Jen
This is the funniest thing ever! Loooove!
Ruth
BEST. POST. EVER.
Hayley Vecchio
Yeah okay this was funny to read for 10 seconds but I really need to know how long I should heat this up in the microwave for. Because last time I did it too long and it burnt. And now as I look up how long I should hit it up for this is the first google result. Straight poop.
kisha williammee
Best thanks for the laugh and direction’s lmfao…. best ever ?
bryan
Celsius chilis is American wtf
Reheater
Jesus Christ can someone just tell me how to reheat the damn thing?
Erikka
I just left Chili’s a month before the pandemic after 15 years. And this post was great. But just reaffirmed why I left. Keep doing what your doing, it’s awesome!
Anne Trytten
You just made my day! We are starting the 9th week of family lockdown for Covid-19, and ordering out last night was a real treat, albeit allowing the hot food to get cold while we processed all the containers from the “contaminated” half of the counter to the “clean” half of the counter, and washed our hands 10 times due to having touched the wrong side of the counter with something from the right side…. it was such a long and bitchy family routine that I was losing my excitement for the meal. Didn’t even have the energy to deal with the lava cake until today. And I’m a chocoholic! Thanks for making it fun! I especially liked the Chihuly bowl.
Denise
These directions were amazing and what was even better was watching my boyfriend’s reactions as I read them to him
for him to follow. Thank you!!
Jared Kuvent
I don’t have ‘Toccata and Fugue in D minor’, but I do have an arrangement of ‘Intermezzo in C Sharp minor’ by Johannes Brahms. I have transposed it to D minor and re-orchestrated it. Is a live performance suitable for the cooking step? Does the cake respond well to Brahms?
Matt
This just made my night.
demoncat_4
rotfl espically that part about if a virgin is not availible gloves will do . including putting the cake into the oven to bake.
dead_elvis
+1 for the inclusion of a Chihuly bowl, because that stuff (& Dale himself) is straight-up hot garbage.
Taanja
Omg! The best!