5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

I kept meaning to try this, but I kept putting it off. Mostly because I wanted to take pictures so if it was amazing I could share it with you.

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug (MicroSafe)
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.


See the cake. See the cake rising over the top of the mug. Am I alarmed? Hell no. You should have seen what the microwave looked like BEFORE I put the mug into it. Here's to hoping a little bit more funk inspires me to clean it.



Here is the cake after cooling. Looks promising. My children start to smell chocolate and are suddenly standing so close to me I wonder if they are taking bets on who can get back into my uterus first.

I threaten children with no cake if they don't get off of me. Cake tipped out onto plate. Looks kind of kooky, right? I'm not afraid of kooky - if it has chocolate in it.
Drum roll please....

Final verdict. A little bit weak. Sure, it cooks in the microwave in five minutes, but it didn't have enough of a chocolate taste. Granted I didn't add the chocolate chips to it, but still. And I could taste the eggs. Quite frankly the only thing I should taste eggs in... is eggs. And it had too much flour. And really in retrospect, once you get all of that crap out of the pantry, measure and mix, it's not that hard to wait 45 minutes for an actual cake to cook, right? I mean, it's not the waiting on the baking that I dread, its the mixing before and the clean up after.
It did have a cake like consistency although it seemed to not cook evenly. It was very dense.
I would give this recipe 3 stars. And one of those stars is because it's a five minute jobbie. But I'll take one for the team here and keep working with it, until I can find something that rocks the house.

Good, bad or inbetween I'll tell you one thing though. My kids ate the crap outta that cake.