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3 minute Cake in a Cup

LucyLean-8169Delicious sticky chocolate cake in 3 minutes – well more like 5 minutes if you count the time it takes to measure out the ingredients into a cup. Here’s a little video from KitchnFlix (be sure to pop on over and subscribe). Minty shows us how to make her cake in a cup recipe, with a little help from her friend Ankha (before she had to leave).

We have a new microwave. I wasn’t a big fan until Minty showed me how magical it can be to bake a cake in 3 minutes. She jumped at the chance to finally make her favorite cake in a cup recipe. We have been eating cake for breakfast lunch and tea – it’s so easy! The chocolate cake is chewy and moist – more like a traditional pudding cake or a self saucing pudding. I have been experimenting with the recipe – chai mix, all-spice and other variations – I’m developing a recipe for Christmas Pudding in a cup, baked in 3 minutes, which we will be sure to share.

This recipe is adapted from Home Made Winter by Yvette van Boven.

Cake in a Cup

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
4 1/2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons sunflower oil

makes one cup of cake

1. Mix the dry ingredients in a cup – make sure the cup hasn’t got any gold gilt as this will spark in the microwave!

2. Add the egg, having cracked it open into a dish to avoid getting shell in the cake. Whisk with a fork.

3. Add the milk and oil and whisk well until all combined.

4. Place cup in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes on high.

5. The cake will rise above the rim of the cap and will defeat a little when you remove it from the microwave. Take care it will be very hot. Let it cool a little and serve. You can add whipped cream, ice cream and/or caramel sauce. I like it as is, nothing extra needed – warm and gooey and delicious – cake in a cup.

Variations

Add 1 tablespoon chai latte mix to the dry ingredients and a shot of espresso for a spicy coffee chocolate cake.

Add 1 teaspoon of all-spice to the mix for a delicious spice cake.

Add 3 tablespoons raisins to the mixture before microwaving for a variation on spotted dick.

Roughly chop some chocolate and add to the mixture before microwaving for extra chocolate ripples.

Add 2 tablespoons of golden syrup to the top of the mixture, don’t stir it in, microwave – for a sweet sticky toffee pudding.

Double the quantities and mix in a bowl and then divide into 2 cups and microwave both cups together – this gave the best results for the consistency of the cake as it cooked a little less and with a little less power.

Filed Under: Baking, cake, Kids Cooking, RECIPES Tagged With: 3 minute cake, Cake in a Cup, Cake in a Mug, chai latte, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cake in 3 minutes, christmas pudding, Kids Cook, Kitchen Kids, KitchnFlix, Minty, Minty and Ankha, Minty and her microwave, Minty cooks, spice cake, spotted dick

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