individual microwave chocolate mug cake

Last Tuesday should be marked in history. It will forever be remembered as the day the best single serving chocolate mug cake was created.

This was no easy task. I actually started microwaving these chocolatey cakes… oh I dunno 9-12 months ago. On my old phone I had bookmarked a recipe for it. It was good, and totally worth making for a quick chocolate pick me up, but nothing that made me wanna run a marathon for it.

Then I got my new iPhone, which I totally love, and the bookmark was lost. Months went by and the chocolate cake was forgotten, until a couple weeks ago. I decided I wanted a chocolate mug cake, so went back to google, thinking I’d easily find that same recipe.

No such luck.

I knew there was no egg or flax egg in it, but that’s all I could find! Now that I think about it I did google chocolate lava cake… the lava must mean egg??

Anyways, I tried one of these egg recipes and they were okay. We ate them, don’t get that wrong, but it sure wasn’t the same as before.

A little time passed and I wanted a good chocolate cake. So I set out to just make one. I remembered the basics of my original old phone recipe, but left out oil.

The great thing about egg free baking is that you can taste the batter as you go. Before microwaving our cakes I tested… tasted like brownie batter… things were looking up.

After a quick 1:10 minutes in the microwave (for 2 mugs), it was time to test.

I had high hopes for this recipe. It looked moist and chocolatey around the edges, and soft in the center.

…

We were blown away!

The moist edges just tasted like melted chocolate, and since it wasn’t fully cooked, the bottom was super chocolatey too.

When Jacob asks me right away if wrote down the recipe (which I did as I was making em), then I know it’s a winner. Plus I devoured tasted it too, so I knew it was a winner.

If you’ve tried your hand at individual microwave chocolate mug cakes before with bad luck, give this a try. Heck if you’ve made good ones before still try this! Prepare for your socks to go flying.

Individual Microwave Chocolate Mug Cake
serves 1

ingredients

• 2 tbsp whole wheat flour
• 2 tbsp dutched cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp natural cane sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• pinch of sea salt
• 3 tbsp chocolate almond milk
• 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. Coat a 12 ounce mug lightly with oil spray.
2. In a small bowl (or your mug) mix together the dry ingredients. Stir in the almond milk and vanilla. Keep mixing until your batter is smooth – no lumps.
3. Pour into the mug and microwave on high for 1 minute. This could vary slightly based on the strength of your microwave. It is done when the center looks soft and cooked, but the outside edge looks like melted chocolate.
4. Grab a spoon and enjoy!

Notes

• If you don’t have chocolate almond milk, just use a regular milk of your choice.
• Add in some chocolate chips for extra chocolate goodness
• If you cook 2 at once, only add an extra 10-20 seconds to the cook time.

I hope you enjoy this treat as much as we did, and continue to enjoy.

Have you ever tried making a chocolate mug cake? Do you have a single serving treat I must try?

Heather

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