Feeding people is a favourite past time of mine. I like holding events where people get to try my food and my kitchen is informally known as my test kitchen where I try out and tweak recipes all the time. I have certain people who I try my recipes on, namely the boyfriend, the best friend, the friend who lives down the street and whoever else wants to eat my food. I have never really though to start my own food blog before but it'll be nice to have a place where I can keep everything and maybe meet some more people along my culinary adventures. Right now I work in hospitality, in a Swedish cafe and the chefs there are a great aide in this journey. My dream one day is to be able to bake and supply a cafe or open a cafe of my own. If you want to contact me about anything on this website, you can email me at gardensofmay@gmail.com.

Tuesday 13 December 2011

Chocolate Mug Cake

Yup, mug cake. That is totally not a typo. Tonight I had felt a really strong urge to have chocolate cake. Part of it is because this coming Thursday I'm finally getting out of my house and going out to a restaurant. It'll be the first time I'm leaving my house since I came back from hospital so I was very excited. Looking over the menu of the venue we're going to I got this intense craving for turkish bread and chocolate cake.

Unfortunately my cravings for turkish bread and dip is left for another day. I was, however, able to satisfy my cravings for Chocolate cake thanks to Not Quite Nigella and pictures from Lucas (who blogs at CoverVersions).


I made a chocolate cake in a mug and it was really strangely very very tasty. So let's get down to the main part of this post so you can all have a recipe to turn to on those nights you feel like cake but you're too lazy to actually bake one. This recipe takes 5 minutes from start to finish (finish being washing up done and eating cake) so it's really worth it on certain nights you want to eat hot tasty cake really quickly.

I didn't even measure these ingredients out properly, I just used a big spoon from my drawer and roughly estimated everything. :3

Ingredients
4 Tablespoons flour
5 Tablespoons Sugar
2 Tablespoons Cocoa powder
1 Teaspoon baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon coffee powder (I left this out but it'd be nice for people who want a nice kick, up the quantitiy a little if you want to make a mocha cake)
pinch of salt
3 Tablespoons milk
3 Tablespoons oil
3 Tablespoons chocolate chips (in this part, I cut up two and a half rows of cadbury dark chocolate)
Splash of vanilla extract
1 egg

Method
1. Combine all of the ingredients into a bowl from the top of the list to the bottom of the list. Make sure you combine all the dry ingredients well before you start putting in the wet ingredients, just helps a little to make sure everything is distributed.

2. Cover the cup with glad wrap.

3. Microwave one cup at a time. Start off with just 1 minute and if it doesn't spring back when you poke it, go for another 30 seconds.

That is all you have to do to make a tasty tasty mug cake! I ate it just as it was but I'm sure it'll be even tastier with ice cream or whipped cream. But it was really decadent as it was for me. I felt a little bit sick after eating a whole cup...it would be perfect for me to share with someone! But this recipe makes two so if you love decadent, here you go!


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  1. Lucas13 December 2011 at 19:26

    It's so strange how tiny variations in the recipe can make this a different cake experience. When I made it at home I was meticulous with the measuring, and it came out fidgey like a brownie. When I made it 2 dozen times at work using a soup spoon as my only measure & self-raising flour and it turned out more like a gooey souffle (and would often need an extra 30 seconds to cook through) and would occasionally rise up out of the mug. Also, if you're using those chocolate buttons (made for melting), you'll end up with a gooey layer of chocolate at the bottom of the mug.

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