5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

[wellinghall]

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous). And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

You are going to print this out straight away, aren't you.

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

That is a version of a recipe I found some time ago on the Internet (and have never actually used so far); yours adds the vanilla and the chocolate chips. Got to love the Internet. :-)

I would consider one mug of chocolate cake to be equal to three comfortably manageable portions, not two. This may cast some light on the reason why I have been steadily losing weight since August!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Or, in my case, one portion ... ;-)

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

Hello! This is a great fun idea.

You could switch out the cocoa for another tablespoon of flour, and put a dessert spoon of golden syrup at the bottom for a syrup sponge pud.

You could also replace the oil for melted or well softened butter, for a richer flavour. (US cake recipes tend to use non-butter shortening, but I think the butter tastes better).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

You could switch out the cocoa for another tablespoon of flour, and put a dessert spoon of golden syrup at the bottom for a syrup sponge pud.

I shall definitely be doing this (possibly with a dollop of ginger marmalade).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Sounds good ...

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Word.

I think I know what I'll be doing next time I have the house to myself. Must buy cocoa and eggs...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Do let us know how it turns out :-)

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

That is amazing!!!

In return - an ice cream recommendation - Tate & Lyle's Golden Syrup Ice cream. I bought a litre of this the other day and it is absolutely delicious!

[muninnhuginn]

Absolutely excellent ice cream. Have you tried the Golden Syrup biscuits that Fudges do? Also good.

[muninnhuginn]

Ha! I am immune. We have no microwave.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Curses, my evil plans are foiled again! ;-)

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

Bah. no coco powder in the flat :-(

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I see this was later remedied ;-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

This is more or less how I used to make cakes for Taruithorn gatherings, many years ago. I used a jug for a larger cake, but the idea is the same.

I assume it wants self-raising: if you are of an economical bent and have much cake to make in a short space of time, you can add more baking powder and water, and the cake puffs up more reducing the cost of ingredients.

I used to ice mine. Melt a chocolate bar in the microwave, then stir in a spoonful or so of icing sugar and some water. Allow to cool, (unless you are in a particular hurry in which case, soddit, bung it all in together, whose going to complain.) and then mix in some butter. Taste. Add more butter/icingsugar if it seems too harsh (lets face it, the chocolate was probably Bournville, it's not polished stuff). Smear hurriedly on cake. Presto.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

... you can also make a bloody enormous cake from one packet of instant 45p cake mix, if you put far more water in than the recipe says and microwave it.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Self-rising flour, or the regular kind?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Opinion seems to favour plain flour.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

You wicked tempter, you. Now I must make it to see if it works. And have all the ingredients to hand...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Do let us know how you get on.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Now you're just being evil.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*sniggers*

[tree_and_leaf]

... ooh.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Quite!

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

I've seen this described elsewhere as the most dangerous chocolate cake recipie in the world- because now you a re never more than a few minutes away from chocolate cake...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well quite!

[chainmailmaiden]

Microwave cake is great, but it doesn't keep as well as sponge done in the oven. Strangely this never seems to be much of a problem though ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well no ... ;-)

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you could do a carrot cake in the same way, substituting the cocoa for grated carrot and the choc chips for a few chopped walnuts?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Possibly - would you care to try it?

[hyalma.livejournal.com]

I've done it today!

http://hyalma.livejournal.com/457961.html

Only, I have no such coffee mug, so I've done it using the beer mug :-))

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Did you enjoy it?

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

You are a very bad person. Thus far, I have resisted...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I aim to please ;-)

[doomcanary.livejournal.com]

Complete random, checking in :)

Experiments between a friend and I suggest that the original recipe means plain flour, since self-raising flour gave us a really light and fluffy cake but rose way over the top of the mug, like a muffin does. Also, bashing up 85% cocoa chcolate and using that for chocolate chips really works.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hello! *waves*

Thank you for your thoughts on the flour.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this recipe! It looks and sounds absolutely delicious. (And so ridiculously easy that even I could manage it.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly! :-)

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

It works!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yay! (What sort of flour did you use?)

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

Wow! I just drifted in via eldritchhobbit. I think I'll scotch my hot cross bun bread and butter pudding and give this a go tonight instead.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoy it! :-)