5-Minute Chocolate Cake
Using a Mug and a Microwave. A co-worker found it on the internet and most of the office decided they wanted to try it. Here is the recipe we used:
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4 T. flour
4 T. sugar
2 T. cocoa
1 egg
3 T. milk
3 T. oil
3 T. chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil, mix well.
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, 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.
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).
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*Some notes about our trial*
I found a similar recipe online at http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes but it encourages you to use cake flour. It also doesn't mention chocolate chips. We ended up using Gold's All-Purpose Flour.
Also, it seems we used 1/4 c. each of oil and milk.
Hershey's Cocoa, Ghiradhelli's Chocolate Chips, Horizon Organic Whole Milk, Organic Valley Jumbo Eggs, Domino's Granulated Sugar, McCormick's Vanilla Extract and some random generic vegetable oil... Just so we know exactly what we used.
It was an interesting experience to say the least. We have a fairly small break room and no real way of washing up besides going down to the ladies'/mens' room. The leaders set up a nice assembly line with notes. I put together my mix, following the directions, believing their notes.
After three minutes in the microwave plus time to cool a bit, I took a bite of a fairly tasty, not too sweet, chocolate cake. Yes, it was a little 'rubbery' but it didn't TASTE rubbery. I think the real difference when compared to other comments I found on the internet was that we used the chocolate chips. Fantastic.... For a microwave personal cake. I wouldn't want to present it for a party or anything.
I am tempted to keep a mix in my desk and buy eggs and milk occasionally just
to have cake when I want to have it.
posted by niaskywalk | Friday, March 13, 2009
2 Comments:
I've had that very same recipe for some months, but never made it. Presented it to my mother last week (a total computer luddite), never thinking she'd use it.
HA! Mothers surprise people all the time.
The first time she made it - it was quite good, she said. But the second and third times, something went terribly wrong.
All three recipes had "a bit" of baking soda (or b. powder perhaps?) added - to make up for there being no leavening in the recipe. (Maybe she not just a computer luddite - a microwave one too?)
I still haven't made it so perhaps I shouldn't be so critical.
What difference do chocolate chips make?
Janey
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@Janey There doesn't need to be baking soda or powder in this recipe at all. The way it is leavened is via steam. The microwave makes it a mini-steamer as it is cooked :-) So perhaps one more try using the exact recipe?
The chocolate chips made the cake sweeter. I don't know if the recipe would need more sugar or something, but most of what the other comments on other sites say is that the cake is bland. With the chocolate chips for ours, it was just right.
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