Recipe: Tasty Chocoflan

Chocoflan. Get Chocoflan Recipe from Food Network. It's a mind-blowing effect that occurs during baking when the chocolate cake batter takes shape and rises to the top of the pan, before the custard has set. How to Unmold Chocoflan: Place serving plate over cake pan.

This dessert is known in Mexico as the "Impossible Flan" because the layering of a cake with a flan in one dessert looks impossible to achieve. We've simplified the preparation by using a cake mix for the cake layer. The cake batter and the flan mixture will be layered in the pan, but will magically switch. You can have Chocoflan using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocoflan

1. Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
2. You need 1 can of Condensed Milk (14oz).
3. It's 7 of eggs (3 for cake - 4 for flan).
4. Prepare 1 box of Chocolate cake mix (any brand).
5. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

As the name suggests, chocoflan is a fusion of chocolate cake and flan. The combination of these two classic desserts is absolutely delicious and always a hit when we make it. If you make it right, you will have a piece of flan and chocolate cake in every bite, which is so tasty! Marcela Valladolid makes Chocoflan, one of Mexico's most famous desserts, as seen on Food Network's Mexican Made Easy.

Chocoflan step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F fahrenheit with a pan of water for a water bath. Spray bunt cake pan with spray butter and set aside..
2. Put 4 eggs to blend in blender. Blend the eggs for 10 minutes. While eggs blend, begin to caramelize 1 cup of sugar over medium heat stirring often and keeping on eye on it so that it does not burn. While caramelizing sugar, prepare chocolate cake mix according to box instructions and set aside..
3. After the eggs have blended for 10 minutes add the condensed milk along with 1 can of water and the vanilla extract. Allow to blend until ready to use..
4. Once sugar has caramelized, pour into tube cake pan. Allow to cool just a few minutes before pouring in chocolate cake batter. Pour flan mixture over cake batter slowly and carefully around the pan. The flan mixture will mix with the cake batter but will separate during baking..
5. Place bunt cake pan in preheated oven in the pan of preheated water. Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until toothpick inserted into cake batter comes out clean. Remove cake pan from water bath and allow to cool at least 1 hour. Carefully cut along outline of pan to separate cake and flan from bunt pan, invert onto serving dish. Store in refrigerator..
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This sweet treat includes a layer of chocolate cake, a layer of creamy flan. Used a rose pattern bunt cake pan. HOW TO UNMOLD CHOCOFLAN Place serving plate over cake pan. Gently remove pan; spoon any remaining caramel left in pan. SUBSTITUTE Caramel sugar is a great substitute for Mexican caramel sauce.