Sometimes a girl (or guy) just needs a little chocolate.
As one who loves to bake, I enjoy being in the kitchen and whipping up something sweet, sometimes spending hours baking, cooking, creating. But, there are many who don’t enjoy the process but love the end result. If that is you, this is a recipe right up your alley!
From start to finish, it takes 5 minutes. That’s it. You need a coffee mug, ingredients, a microwave and you’re set… ready to bake. Does it get easier?
5-minute Mug Cake Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- 3 T milk
- 3 T neutral oil (I used vegetable)
- 3 T flour
- 4 T sugar (I used Sugar in the Raw)
- 2 T cocoa powder
- 3 T semi-sweet chocolate chips
- splash of vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
Add wet ingredients, including the egg, to the mug and mix well. Add the dry ingredients and mix. Add chocolate chips and the vanilla extract. Mix.
Put the mug into your microwave and cook for 2-minutes. The cake will rise up over the top of the mug, but won’t spill over. Just in case, I put the mug on a small plate before putting into the microwave.
Remove the mug from the microwave and let it cool for a few minutes before turning it out onto a plate. You could also eat right from the mug, but let it cool down a bit, as the chocolate chips are ooey gooey and still hot.
The recipe says it’s meant for one, but even with my sweet tooth, I couldn’t finish it all myself — It’s that rich and delectable. It would also be perfect as the bottom layer of an ice cream sundae.
*Recipe adapted from Lucky Peach
Genuine Joy 