You know what feels better than eating a decadent chocolate cake? Eating it in your favourite coffee mug, comfortably snuggled in a blanket with the AC on! Mug cakes are the easiest and the most convenient form of dessert, ever. Eating a mug cake ensures that all the crumbs of your delicious bake fall right in to the cup. Mug cakes aren’t only meant for your sole consumption, they are pretty awesome to have at a party too. This versatile dessert has a crowd pull as the portion is just right per person, for a one time binge, making second helpings unnecessary. You could serve mug cakes at your next party and break the old trend of plated desserts.
Making a mug cake is extremely easy and all you require to have is a massive microwave friendly coffee mug, and a few basic baking ingredients. You can alter the quantities of ingredients according to the size of your mug. I find it fun to add a lot of seasonal fruits and berries like mangoes and bananas to my mug cakes. One can also choose to add chocolate syrup or ice-cream scoops on top of their mug cake. Here are some simple mug cake recipes that you could try out, even if you’re an amateur baker.
Everything’s better with a bite of chocolate
Ingredients:
- Half cup all-purpose flour
- Half cup sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 4 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 tablespoon water
- Half teaspoon vanilla extract
- Vanilla ice cream
- Chocolate syrup
Method :
- Mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a large coffee mug that’s microwave safe. Mix in the milk, canola oil, water, and vanilla extract.
- Cook in microwave until cake is done in the middle, for about 2 minutes.
- When you take out the mug, put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top and drizzle some chocolate syrup over it!
If you’d rather be vanilla
Ingredients:
- All-purpose flour: cake flour also works.
- White sugar
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Butter
- Milk
- Vanilla flavouring
- Mangoes
- Chocolate sauce
- Scoop of Nutella
Method:
- Add the dry ingredients to a big coffee mug that’s microwave safe.
- Then stir in the wet ingredients: milk, melted butter, and vanilla in the cup.
- Microwave for 70-90 seconds.
- Take out of the microwave and add a scoop of Nutella, chopped mangoes and top it up with chocolate sauce.
The rocking red velvet
Ingredients:
- Four tablespoons of cocoa powder
- Four tablespoons of milk
- One tea spoon of red food colour
- Six tablespoons of oil
- Eighty grams of flour
- Hundred grams of caster sugar
- One egg
For icing:
- Two tablespoons of cream cheese
- 30 grams of icing sugar
Method:
- Put some oil around a massive coffee mug that’s microwave safe.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together until combined.
- Add the oil, milk and egg and mix well. Next, add the food colouring, stirring as you do so you can get the colour just right.
- Microwave on high heat for 1.5 minutes.
- While the cake cooks, make the icing. Sieve the icing sugar on top of the cream cheese and stir well until they combine completely. Once the cake is done, spoon the icing on top.
