Sure it's not the same as making it in the oven but it sure does the trick when you want a sweet treat dessert in a hurry because, in 2 minutes and a few simple pantry ingredients, that's all there is to it.
Not going to bore you with a long string of notes here, but this is a quick chocolate cake with powdered sugar, and if you want to doctor it up buy some store-bought canned frosting for an extra sugary sweet topping.
I personally like less sugar.
You will also have to adapt the recipe to your taste when it comes to a sweet cake or just a little sweet, plus if you need to use a sugar substitute I have also tried this with stevia just a little goes a long way.
The cake is a little spongy and not really tender like a cake in the oven, so don't be disappointed in the texture, it is still a really quick tasty cake!
Check out the ingredients and one more tip, if you really love chocolate, I add a few chocolate chips on top after it's cooked and let them melt a minute.
A fast and easy dessert!
I did mention how easy this was to make in 2 minutes right?
Just remember to grease the mug with cooking oil spray or lots of butter first!
Here are the ingredients you need to keep on hand(the recipe card below has the measurements)
- flour (cake flour will make this lighter)
- brown sugar
- cocoa powder
- baking powder
- salt
- egg
- milk
- oil or melted butter
- vanilla
Microwave Coffee Cup Chocolate Cake
Yield: 1
Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 2 MinTotal time: 7 Min
Chocolate cake made in a coffee mug in two minutes what can be easier?
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons flour (cake flour will make this lighter)
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder (a pinch)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt (a pinch)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 3 tablespoons oil or melted butter
- 2 -3 drops of vanilla or coffee extract
Instructions
- Grease a tall, large mug.
- In a small bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, a tiny pinch of baking powder, and a tiny pinch of salt.
- Whisk the dry ingredients together until blended evenly.
- Add egg and mix into the dry mixture.
- Add oil and milk, vanilla and mix well.
- Pour this mixture, into your tall greased mug scraping it out with a spatula.
- Place in microwave on High for 2 minutes and 30 seconds (mine is 1000 watts)
- (Best slightly undercooked, so be careful).
- Cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar or your favorite frosting...
- Microwave Coffee Cake or (any kind of microwave cake from a cake mix)
- 1/3 cup of your favorite cake mix (this coffee cake is a plain yellow cake mix)
- 4 tablespoons of milk
- Topping:
- cinnamon/sugar mixture
- chopped walnuts and/or raisins
- (Only for coffee cakes for all other flavors, sprinkle tops with confectionery sugar or add a scoop of ice cream)
- In a greased microwaveable cup, spray with cooking oil. Add the two ingredients and blend well, sprinkle with a cinnamon and sugar mixture of equal parts... top with chopped nuts and raisins. Microwave for 2 minutes.
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