Chocolate mug cake

Post date: Jan 27, 2015 9:45:12 AM

Tania has a sweet tooth and loves candy, chocolates, cakes gulab jamuns and ice-cream. But mama has taught her the importance of eating healthy nutritious food and to eat sweets in moderation. Mama however recently came up with this quick and easy to make, healthy, tasty, recipe for a chocolate mug cake that made both mama and Tania very happy. Papa enjoyed it too. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

  1. Powdered oats- 3 1/2 tbs

  2. Cocoa powder-2 tbsp

  3. Sugar- 2 tbsp

  4. Baking powder- 1/4 tsp

  5. Milk- 2 tbsp

  6. Egg- 1 no

  7. Melted butter 1/2 tsp

  8. Almond essence-1/2 tsp

  9. 1 tbsp coarsely ground walnuts (optional)

Mama only had regular oats so Tania helped mama grind them in to a powder in the mixer.

Mama put all the dry ingredients in a large cup (mug) and Tania mixed them with a fork. Then mama added in the milk, egg, melted butter and stirred vigorously with a fork making sure it was all mixed well with no lumps.

Then mama put the cup in the microwave for 100 seconds (1 minute and 40 seconds) and the cake was ready for Tania to eat!

Mama originally found this recipe on http://kurryleaves.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/chocolate-espresso-mug-cake.html but as you can see, she tweaked it. Particularly, using oats instead of maida (flour) makes the cake both fluffier and healthier. Win win! That was clever of mama.