Name: Microwave Chocolate Mug Cake
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons cake flour; 8 tablespoons white sugar; 4 tablespoons cocoa powder (unsweetened); 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules; 2 pinches salt; 4 tablespoons whisked egg ((I discovered that a medium egg is equal to 4 tbsps.)); 6 tablespoons full-fat milk; 6 tablespoons oil ((I used palm oil))

Microwave Chocolate Mug Cake

Recipe by Connie Veneracion

When you're craving cake but it's too hot to turn on the oven, microwave chocolate mug cake is the solution. No mixing bowls required. Baking time is two and a half minutes.

Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Total Time 10 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine International

Servings mug cakes

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Ingredients

8 tablespoons cake flour
8 tablespoons white sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder unsweetened
1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
2 pinches salt
4 tablespoons whisked egg (I discovered that a medium egg is equal to 4 tbsps.)
6 tablespoons full-fat milk
6 tablespoons oil (I used palm oil)

Instructions

Prepare two microwavable coffee mugs.
Into each cup place four tablespoons of cake flour, four tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of cocoa, half a tablespoon of coffee granules and a pinch of salt.
Stir well to combine. Make sure that the mixture has a uniform appearance. You’ll be doing all the mixing in the mugs and there’s not much room to maneuver, so, right from the first step, make sure that every ingredient is uniformly distributed.
Pour in two tablespoons of whisked egg into each cup. Mix. The batter will look like bread dough at this point but that’s how it should be.
Pour in three tablespoons of milk and three tablespoons of oil into each cup. Mix until smooth. Now you have cake batter that looks like regular cake batter.
Bake on HIGH for two and a half minutes. ONE CUP AT A TIME (see notes after the recipe).
Once the cake is out of the microwave, just take a dessert spoon and dig in.

Notes

I don’t know how the cakes will turn out if you cook two cups at the same time.

Note, too, that the two minute baking time is for a 1000W microwave oven. If your microwave’s wattage is lower, you’ll have to increase the baking time. By how much, I have no idea.

By the time I was almost finished with my cake, I discovered that the bottom was still slightly wet.

Bottom of cup after finishing microwave chocolate mug cake

That was fine with me. But if you prefer not to have that slightly wet bottom, you might want to increase the baking time by another 30 seconds.

Updated from a recipe originally published in February 28, 2012

Keyword Chocolate cake, Microwave cake