I recently came across this Five Minute Mug Cake on a few blogs, and thought I had to try it.

One mug + microwave + 5 min. + few ingredients = home made chocolate cake for one

Sounds like fun to me! I called in my best helper, the “dessert lady”, who has a particular fondness for all things chocolate and it turned into a fun Friday night project.

I found this great recipe and video at Instructables. It’s really simple to make.

Ingredients:

• 4 tbsp all-purpose flour
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
• 2 tbsp whisked egg (According to the instructables girl “1 egg is too much, 1 egg white is too eggy, 1 yolk is too dense, but 2 tbsp is just right!”
• 3 tbsp milk
• 3 tbsp oil
• 3 tbsp chocolate chips
• splash vanilla

Mix your dry ingredients in the mug -a big mug.

Mix in the wet ingredients, and the chocolate chips.

After it’s well mixed, time to microwave it. The original recipe was for a 700 w or 1000 w microwave, so I adjusted the time for my 1100 w microwave to 2 minutes and thirty seconds, and it was just right. (While cooking, take the 2 and half min. to clean-up your spoon.)

And 2 and half minutes later, viola! A fresh, hot, little chocolate cake!

We topped ours with a little powdered sugar and some vanilla ice cream.

The consistency is a little fudgy. It’s really pretty good for 5 min. worth of work.

This is a really fun project to do with kids, they could even do most of it on their own. Definitely worth a try, and you know I won’t steer you wrong, the only thing to watch is the timing of the cooking. Over cooked = really bad With 5 min. Mug Cake, turn any night into a party!

This fun little post is linked up at Tatertots and Jello, Faded Charm, The Shabby Nest, and Whipperberry.