Microwave chocolate cake

First off, I know  microwave  cake is  hardly in keeping with  the theme of this blog, but  really  how can you live a sybaritic life without chocolate cake ?

Any way the recipe has been whizzing round the internet, so following a friends attempt I thought I'd give it a stab.

Anyway the ingredient list is pretty simple.

• 4 tbsp flour
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp milk
• 3 tbsp oil

     a dash vanilla essence

 

Combine the dry ingredients in your mug

then break in the egg and beat smooth

add the milk & oil and mix well

add the dash of vanilla & microwave.

The original recipe calls for 3 minutes on full power in a 1000w oven

Apparently 3 mins in an 850w at full power over cooks it

3mins medium full in a 750w isn't quite enough. I guess the power needs juggling a bit.

  

Mug cake

Melting some chocolate whilst waiting for the cake to cool is probably a good plan. The cooking time adjustments left a slightly rubbery cake. Its edible especially as its 5 minutes from the collection of ingredients to the plate. Getting the timing right & jazzing up the serving (a chocolate sauce, some ice cream 

or some cream) would make a reasonable little pudding. I think a little more experimentation might be required.

I'm going to do a little reading to see how it all works & try to get a better cake out of it 

It should come as no surprise the internet is full of microwave mug cake recipes.

And a couple of interesting gift ideas. I'm now a bit more taken with the idea and have a few thoughts about odd desserts.