chocolate-lava cake

chocolate-lava cake (countable and uncountable, plural chocolate-lava cakes)

1. Alternative form of chocolate lava cake.
   • 2003 May 9, Phil Vettel, “Reviews: Shades of Red and Green: New chefs at Red Light, Green Dolphin Street provide golden touches”, in Chicago Tribune, 156th year, number 129, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 7, page 30, column 2:

     Offerings include wonderful sorbets (the peach is especially good), rich banana cream pie with coconut sorbet, chocolate-lava cake with green-tea ice cream and something called Thai coffee, which is an Asian-accented tiramisu.

   • 2005 March 23, Frank Curcio, “Here, it’s certain: Bensi Ristorante shares family-style eating with the Whitehouse community”, in Courier News, Bridgewater, N.J., →ISSN, →OCLC, Hunterdon Hills section, page 6, column 4:

     House specialties are the Bensi lava explosion and the Bensi nutty obsession—the former begins with warm chocolate-lava cake, the latter with peanut-butter mousse (and brownie chunks).

   • 2010 May 6, Phil Vettel, “Lighting up the West Loop: Former Ritz-Carlton chefs have made triumphant return with Prairie Fire”, in Chicago Tribune, 163rd year, number 126, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 5, page 3, column 3:

     Truth be told, it’s not demonstrably superior to the 3,667 other chocolate-lava cakes in existence, but if the phrase, “gooey, rich and chocolate” makes your knees wobble, you’ll be very happy with this.

   • 2014 February 16, Kayleigh Sommer, “Haute Harlingen: Dinner Club dishes out ethnic cuisine”, in Valley Morning Star, volume 102, number 316, Harlingen, Tex.: AIM Media Texas, →OCLC, page C1, column 5:

     For dessert, the diners enjoyed chocolate-lava cake, topped with a chocolate-covered strawberry.