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Microwave chocolate mug cake

Published: 02.28.2012 » Last updated: 02.09.2023

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.

Microwave Chocolate Mug Cakes

So, what do you need and what don’t you need to make these mugs cakes? Let’s start with the mugs. Or, to be more precise, coffee or tea cups.

Microwave-safe mugs

Make sure you use microwave-safe cups. While most modern ceramic coffee and tea cups are microwave safe, it’s still a better strategy to check. If there is no “microwave safe” label at the bottom of your cups, better exchange them for ones that are aptly labeled.

Mixing chocolate cake batter in coffee mugs

You will need measuring spoons, of course. What you won’t need are mixing bowls because you will measure the ingredients directly into the cups.

Batter for microwave chocolate mug cakes

You will also mix those ingredients in the cups. And you will only need a fork for mixing. Isn’t that nice? So much less utensils to wash afterwards.

Digging into a microwave chocolate mug cake

But before you make your microwave mug cakes, note that microwave oven wattage differs. 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.

Bottom of cup after finishing microwave chocolate mug cake

By the time I was almost finished with my cake, I discovered that the bottom was still slightly wet. 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 if you have a 1000W oven.

Microwave chocolate mug cake

Connie Veneracion
A medium egg is exactly four tablespoons.
For best results, bake one mug cake at a time.
Microwave chocolate mug cake straight from the oven
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Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 5 minutes mins
Total Time 10 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine International
Servings 2 mug cakes

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
  • 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.
  • Once the cake is out of the microwave, just take a dessert spoon and dig in.

Connie Veneracion

Lawyer by education. Journalist by accident. Home cook and writer by passion. Photographer by necessity. Good food, coffee and wine lover forever. Read more about me and Umami Days. Find me on Flipboard, Substack and Pinterest.

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