A Mug Cake with only 138 calories without chocolate chips OR 219 calories including them! Because when you want cake…you want cake! Over the years, I’ve fallen victim to dry, dense, chewy and rubbery mug cakes, Mug cakes that taste like an egg omelette made out of rubber. Cakes so dense it’s hard to put a spoon in. Disasters.
Mug Cake Recipe
Until this mug cake came along; stole my beating heart and took my breath away. Chocolate seems to have that effect on me, and I’m sure on you too, since you’re here with me — by my side — committing a non-crime on our diets, together. In fact,, it’s been included in my diet — maybe every third day or so for about a year now — for breakfast. Why? Because it’s less in points and calories than a bowl of medium-sized, mediocre flavoured, cardboard textured cereal. Dipping your spoon into this cake is met with a soft, buttery, rich and fluffy moment.
Serving suggestion
The ONLY dilemma you may have, is deciding what to eat it with. Plain is just as amazing as drowning in ice cream to frozen yogurt.
How To Make A Mug Cake
Unsweetened cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, milk, melted butter, chocolate chips (of COURSE)…and a microwave safe mug. Typical cake ingredients, but not your typical cake baking. Sometimes we don’t have an hour to stand by the oven and cross our fingers something will rise to the occasion and full-fill our every need and desire when it’s ready. No. I don’t have time for those simple pleasures. I do, however, have time to wait around my microwave for a minute.
All 12 times making this, it took me about a minute to get it all together…
Including whisking a cake batter and taste testing more than three times JUST TO MAKE SURE I liked it. You understand, right?
And out comes a thing of beauty with a perfect soft top. So perfect, I cradled it every single time I made it, proud and smug, before sinking my spoon in and feeling that soft, moist cake softness. For breakfast. As a snack. For dessert. Whatever. When it’s low cal, it doesn’t really matter, right?
I mean… look into THAT centre. Excuse me while I go make another one.
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