5-minute Chocolate Cake

Step 2 Mix your ingredients

• Add all of the dry ingredients to the mug and mix.
• Add the egg and combine well. It gets pretty pasty at the point.
• Stir in milk and oil.
• Add chocolate chips* and splash of vanilla. Stir well.

*if you don't have chocolate chips, try a broken up candy bar - I can't stress how much this amps the awesomeness of your cake

Comments

[lakins1]

yum! This recipe has come out great all three times I've used it. I love to add cinnamon, chili powder, nutmeg... whatever I have around.

I mix the batter in a small bowl and then pour it into two smaller oiled mugs and cook for about a minute.

In the picture below I added semi-sweet and white chocolate chips. Then melted a bit of the white chocolate and decorated the tops.

[sbajwa1]

It was absolutely fab and quick !! Just need to adjust my time as put 3 cups in together ..was over by 30 secs ..still was very delicious and edible ;)

[GOHOKIES!]

Someone please tell me if I should use all purpose or self-rising flour? Text doesn't specify & video shows all purpose bag so thats what I used. Gotta say it didn't rise at all and was quite blah. I really, really, really want this recipe to work for me. I'm tired of searching for a good cup recipe. Thanks!

[gavox]

DO NOT use self raising with this recipe. It will go EVERYWHERE

[asundin]

I gave it a whirl, since i was craving chocolate cake. It was good, I could have probably put a touch more vanilla in for me, but it was still good. I paired it with some ice cream, definitely hit the spot. Thanks for the quick recipe.

[cmarquez2]

asdfghjkl; this is AMAZING. ahh but now i have a chocolate headache.
IT TASTES GREAT WITH NUTELLA :D

[rskyrme]

I cooked it.. It looked sooooooo Beautiful.... Until i tasted the bitterness inside of the teensy weensy cake. Any Suggestions on what i did wrong? (I followed the recipe... and it looked better than all of the other "Mug cakes" I baked, but tasted the same. :'( )

[sprygamekiller]

I made mine and cooked it for 3 min but had to cook it 2 more but then it was still liquid so i tried 1:30 and with 42 seconds left it was burning and smelled like really badly burnt popcorn. Any sugustions?

[uspolia]

see it depends on the microvave i use to do 10:00 min iam havin ifb
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[padawanspider]

I found out the hard way that even if it *looks* liquid it could be done - maybe you can press on it with the back of a spoon at each stop to see if it's actually solid after all.

[pyrorower]

The same exact thing happened to me, and provided you used all the correct ingredients, I think the mistake happened to both of us. When we add the egg, we need to add it to the dry ingredients THEN add the milk and oil and stir again. I'm going to try this and see how it works!

[applelove08]

Hi... Sorry... May i know what do you mean by a splash of vanilla?

[Nu7t3r]

Vanilla Essence, you can buy it in a small bottle from any supermarket

[Jaif14]

it means a bit of it like a little more than 5 drops of poor a bit in or 10 drops  or something around there.

[matthewabel]

 For a cake this size, I'm extrapolating about a 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.  It's important to not overdo the vanilla, especially if you're using imitation vanilla (which is what i have to use) or you'll get a bitter taste.

[marinekid]

NEVER use imitaion! I do a bit of baking,and imitaion tastes nothing LIKE as good as real!!! But extract (essence is imitation) is a lot stronger, so be careful.

[daycaremommy53]

This was FANTASTIC!  I think that maybe the people who are experiencing burning with their cakes might be cooking it a bit too long.  All microwaves are very different.  Mine, for example, is so old that Martha Washington used it to make popcorn for George.  LOL!  Anyway, I had to cook mine for 5 minutes before it was done.  Maybe if yours burned you should try cooking it for only 2 minutes next time.  I took mine out several times and checked it to see if it was done and it didn't hurt it one bit.

[great_leon_8]

hello! I made that cake but it burnt in the bottom :'( but it was okay on the top...i ate the top but it tasted...bitter..what should i do ??? :(

[Eirinn]

Hi there,
Did you mix it up properly?
Did you replace any of the ingredients with something else?
Also remember to check the wattage of your microwave, it might be too high.

This is just me guessing though :)

[lighteuplife]

I'm going to try butterscotch chips instead of chocolate chips to see how it turns out

[lighteuplife]

Alright, it's finished - maybe needs more salt? But still delicious

[Pattycakes23]

does ovaltine work for the chocolate  powder?

[cookie_chris]

Do I have to use the vanilla i don't have any kind of extract

[pilotclan9404]

I dont normally have coca around...anything else i can use? i have all the other stuff...

[bigwhitebob]

buy some, it dose not go bad, and will make a boat load of these cakes. happy baking.

[Lemonade!]

Well i'm not completely sure about this, but if your up for experiment then you could try using hot chocolate mix if you have any.

[cherishcherub]

 whenever i see cocoa in a recipe i use hot chocolate mix- works a treat

[LemonLily]

I have a guess, but maybe you can make coffee cake?

[carbon12 based]

How did you come across this? Seems to me like you thought " I want cake, but I want it now" Will try it, thanks for sharing

[DSAdzionator]

That's a very good attitude to have towards chocolate cake =D

[scoochmaroo]

Right? Who doesn't want cake RIGHT NOW?

[marinekid]

I certainly do...

lactose intolerant tho =(

...

soya milk works right?

[Lance Mt.]

Meh i gave up on cake after i found out the truth...

[90mp11]

++ geek points

[TheStrangeAngel]

HL for the win

[Lance Mt.]

yup

[lucasgui]

Erm... Its not Half Life, Its Portal o.o'

[briman0094]

thank you! who would mistake that delicious piece of ASCII cake? :D

[jackco1]

omg this loookss sooo NICE!!! however how much milk and oil do we need? reply plzz XDDD

[scoochmaroo]

3 tablespoons milk, 3 tablespoons oil