Quick 5 minutes Chocolate Mug Cake

It was raining cats and dogs outside and I was feeling like having something sweet within the confines of my home. I was more interested in preparing and eating something at home instead of going out due to the heavy rains. I had some cocoa powder at my disposal in my refrigerator so I started searching for some recipes related to cocoa powder on the net. Luckily for me, I came across a recipe for making a quick chocolate mug cake.

My better half warned me not to try out another cake recipe from the internet because I had prepared a different cake recipe some days ago from a blog which did not taste that good. Hence he was a bit apprehensive and suspicious with regard to how this cake would turn out.

To my spouse’s astonishment this cake recipe turned out to be rather delicious and at the end of all the drama I had to settle for lesser share of the spoils.

Adopted the from here

Ingredients:

4 tbsp flour

5 tbsp sugar 

2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

1 egg

3 tbsp milk

3 tablespoons oil

A pinch of salt (if using unsalted butter)

2 drops of vanilla extract (optional)

Method

• Get two microwave safe mugs
   
•  In a bowl mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and sugar. Divide this mixture into two half and add it to each mug
  
• Share equally the quantity of milk, butter and vanilla essence and add to each mug. Whisk the egg in a bowl, divide into two and add to the mugs. Mix well all the ingredients; see that no flour remains at the bottom.
•  Keep one mug at a time in the microwave and cook for about 2 min on medium heat (the time depends on which microwave your using). check the cake if it is not cooked keep an additional 30 sec. The cake has to be moist and soft.
  enjoy it with ice-cream