Magic Mugcake a la Shay
I’ve seen the magic mug cupcake recipes going around and the two I’ve tried left me feeling a little ‘ew’. So I tried to adapt it to make it less rich and evil. It’s not the most amazing cake that you will ever eat, but it’s not a bad snack (well two snacks, it’s quite big).
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons self raising flour
- 3.5 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 egg
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 1.5 tablespoons light olive oil
- splash of vanilla essence
- 1 large mug
Method:
Add everything into the mug and mix well. Once you get to adding the liquids, if you find you’re reaching the rim of the mug, give it a bit of a stir and it should settle down a little. Put it into the microwave for about 2.5 minutes on high (1100W microwave) and voila.
You can spray the mug with cooking spray or wipe with oil if you like but if you don’t mind running a knife around the edge later it doesn’t make much of a difference and I wanted to reduce the amount of oil going in.
Also make sure the mug is a decent size, it’ll rise very high (mine rose then kind of fell looking like a long wilted cake) and may even overflow a little. Just wipe the microwave dish straight after you take the mug out and it’ll clean easily.
Oh and the mug is very very hot when it has just cooked. Use a mitt.
