Sunday, July 26, 2009
Chocolate Cake in a Mug
Friday started out sunny - I tried to make the children go out in the garden but they were set on staying in the house with the toys and the books and the computer and television - but then the sky went grey, the wind picked up and it started to rain.
In the summer holidays. What's that about?
So after lunch I decided what we needed was chocolate cake in a mug. The recipe is all over the net - you only have to Google it to find out - but this is my personal and improved version:
One microwaveable, largish mug.
Add 4 tablespoons of self-raising/cake flour,
4 tablespoons of sugar,
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder.
Mix well.
Add 3 tablespoons of milk,
3 tablespoons of melted butter,
1 egg,
a tiny splish of vanilla extract.
(Note: this is my variation. The recipe I found uses 3 tablespoons of oil, but if you do that you're getting fat with no flavour. I put three tablespoons of softened butter in another mug, then microwaved it to melt. It increases your washing-up, but I think it's worth it.)
Mix well, until it's smooth and lumpfree. At this point you could add a few chocolate chips or bits of chocolate broken up.
Place in microwave. Microwave on full power for three minutes until cake is rising out of the top of the mug.
Turn out onto plate, add cream/ creme fraiche/ chocolate sauce/ whatever else you can find, and eat.
This amount serves one person very generously. All three of us left about half our chocolate cakes for later. Sparkler made some chocolate butter cream to put on hers, and it was very good. When the cake first comes out of the microwave it's like a steamed chocolate pudding, but once it's cool it's more like standard chocolate sponge cake, with a denser, moister texture. It's too messy to be served the way you'd serve cupcakes or similar, but if all you want is lumps of chocolate cake it's a winner!
I'd add pictures at this point, but I didn't think to take them, and the cakes are all eaten now. If we make it later today (the weather is grey again so I think it's justified) I'll add pictures then.Labels: chocolate cake in a mug, cooking, recipes
2 comments. Please post yours!
Oooh that sounds good. Friday was very rainy here too--a couple of miles away there were marble-sized hailstones but all we got was a mere torrent of rain. So, sensibly, I went down the pub, and stayed there until it had stopped raining.
But next time, I'll try the chocolate cake in a mug. In fact, it's looking a bit dull out there now...
Damn. I don't have a microwave.
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