3 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

I’ve wanted to try this for a long time but with wildly varying reviews of how good it is, I figured why cause more wash up for something that could possibly be pretty manky.

I’m not a huge chocolate cake fan, but sometimes, only a slice of fluffy cocoa cakey goodness will do. Or in this case, a mug of.

It ended up with hasty research for a quick and easy chocolate cake to get my fix. And tah-daaaaaaaaaah….microwave choccie cake in the time it takes you to boil a kettle of water.

The measurements below are what I figured would work (although I lobbed in the liquid stuff in hoping for the best), and here’s how it turned out.

Makes 1 big-ass mug cake (it’s a technical term), or 2 decent cakes in separate mugs/ cups

Dry ingredients-

2 oz flour

1 oz sugar

1 oz cocoa powder

Wet ingredients-

1 egg

3 tablespoons milk

3 tablespoons melted butter (or 30g/ 1 oz melted for 15 secs in the microwave)

Baileys Biscotti for flavouring-I used about two runs around the bowl

Unfortunately, I didn’t have chocolate chips. They’re not essential but would have broken up the texture nicely.

Method:

Mix your dry ingredients in a separate bowl. I did this originally because I didn’t believe it would only fit into one mug, it does, but you won’t get to mix it properly in the mug once the wet ingredients go in.

Then add your egg, and mix it until it’s all fairly binded. Add the milk and melted butter and mix until it forms a batter. Add the flavouring

Pour into your microwave proof mug, or two microwave proof mugs/ cups

Pop it in for three minutes. My microwave is supposed to be 850w but it acts like it’s more 1000w. Keep an eye on it while it’s going, in case your cup or microwave gives different results. There’s no point trying to do something the lazy way if it means something blows up or spills over and causes more cleaning, boooooo!

Glossy, mmmmm!

It’s quite dense inside, but has loads of flavour and is rich enough for even the biggest chocoholic!

Next time, I’d use chocolate chips, split the mix between two mugs and serve with ice cream, other than that..