Chocolate Chip Mug Cake (Microwave Cake)

This is one of the few things that I have remade after making it for the purposes of filming.  It’s that good.  A day in the life of a foodie YouTuber consists of practicing a recipe, tweeking it, filming it, and taking pictures of it.  Rarely, and I mean rarely do we (Paul and I) actually eat what I make.  (Obviously if you’ve seen me recently I been doing my fair share of eating!!–insert self deprecating talk here blah, fat, blah, ugly)  I love my cheesecake but other than that, after having made hundreds of cakes over the last three years, the idea of eating a piece of cake does not appeal to me one bit.  

This recipe is the exception. 

Normally, at the end of picture taking, we donate the food we’ve made and carry on to the next idea.  But, with this recipe, I ate the entire mug cake, AND half of Paul’s!  It is soooo good.  And a word of advice, if you underbake it **just** a little bit it comes out super gooey and ooey.  I’m salivating thinking about it right now.  HOLD ME BACK FROM THE MICROWAVE!!!!!! 

After I ate 1.5 mugs of this Chocolate Chip cake, I was definitely full of chocolate.  Until the next day when I had another one.  Oops. 

I’m not allowed to microwave cakes anymore. 

Chocolate Chip Mug Cake (Microwave Cake)

1/4 cup of All Purpose Flour (30g)
1/4 cup Sugar (50g)
2 Tablespoons of Cocoa (13g)
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons of Milk (Skim/1%/2%) (45mL)
3 Tablespoons of Vegetable Oil (45mL)
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract (5mL)
3 Tablespoons of Chocolate Chips/or Chunks (30g)

*Your mug will need to be able to hold about 300mL-400mL of liquid.

Mix all the ingredients into a mug and microwave it for between 1:00 to 1:45s.   One mug, one spoon, one mess.  

I’m off to unlock the padlock on the microwave.  I can’t take it anymore!  

Happy baking!