5 Minute Chocolate Cake
The day before our vacation ended, I started getting sick. I toughed it out since that was our Grand Canyon day, but I slept on D’s shoulder the entire flight home. I was worried about looking sick in front of all the people we had just flown with. I asked that he take me to my parent’s so I can sleep somewhere familiar. The look on my mom’s face when I walked in the door worried me so I took my temp – 103.1 – the highest I’ve seen it in a long time! So if I have H1N1, do I go expose other people to it at the hospital? And if I have something else, do I risk complicating things by being exposed to H1N1 at the hospital? So here I am in flannel jammies resting on the couch at home.
What do I have? I have no idea. Looking up symptoms online, speaking with an on-call nurse, and also having my mom, a nurse, give her opinion, all tell me that I could have either bronchitis, walking pneumonia, or everybody’s favorite (I’m being sarcastic here), swine flu. I have asthma that doesn’t bother me until I’m sick, so breathing has been a little uncomfortable. I’m making progress though – my temp has gone down on it’s own and I’m not feeling as weak.
While I’m sick I’m not too hungry. Pot roast and veggies were too heavy. And when I got hungry again I wanted something different…
I received an email from my mom a year ago containing the recipe for quick chocolate cake that uses basic kitchen staples.
For those times when you have that urge and nothing else will do!
5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
- a small splash of vanilla essence
- 1 coffee mug (I always use a bowl because it’s easier and cleaner to add extras, like ice cream!)
1 – Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well.
2 – Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
3 – Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
4 – Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla essence, and mix again.
5 – Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts. The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!
6 – Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).
And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!
Seems like you could make up a bunch of these ahead and just add the liquids and egg when it’s time to make one. Put each batch in a snack-size zip lock bag. You’d cut the prep/cook time down to about 3.5 min. The kids could make it up quick without too much mess. It would be a quick snack for visiting kids/grandkids.
How Does it Taste?
Honestly, it tastes like something I made in middle school family and consumer sciences class. To be more descriptive, it tastes like the cake desserts that come in microwavable dinners. It’s not light and fluffy, but when you’re really wanting (or needing 
) chocolate cake fast, this does the trick.
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- Finer Things Friday @ The Finer Things in Life
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- Food on Fridays @ Ann Kroeker’s blog
- Foodie Fridays @ Designs by Gollum
- Friday Feasts @ Mom Trends
- Tasty Tuesday @ Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
- Tempt My Tummy Tuesday @ Blessed with Grace
- Tuesday’s at the Table @ All the Small Stuff
- Tackle it Tuesday @ 5 Minutes for Mom
- Works for Me Wednesday @ We Are THAT Family
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LOL – thanks for your honest flavor description!
ButterYum
I have made this before, and you give a perfect description!
Many blessings!
Oh, great – chocolate cake in just a few minutes! I’m in trouble! LOL! Hope you feel better soon!
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Looks like a great thing for a quick chocolate fix.
I’m sick with a F.L.I (Flu-like Illness) too… hope you are on the mend soon.
I do hope you feel better soon. Call your doctor. None of the possibilities you’ve mentioned can properly be treated without medical diagnosis. Try some noodle soup! I’ve heard it’s good for the soul
. Hugs…Mary
Hope you feel better soon. I have this little treat and it’s GREAT!!! for you want something sweet FAST!!! and EASY!!!
Geri
I’ve had this treat without the chocolate chips and it was very good and fast. Great recipe thanks for sharing.
vickie
Girl you need to take care of yourself. Go to the hospital and get professional help. You need medication. I had pneumonia last month and it was ROUGH and a long recovery… having said that… I too make that coffee cup cake and it is great when you need chocolate cake fast!!
I make this for my stepson ALL the time, probably once every other week to be more realistic. I make it yummy by taking 3-4 mini candy bars and throwing them in my mini food processor and grinding them – so far the favorite combination is butterfinger, snickers, and baby ruth… so good!! These cakes HAVE to have a topping though or they are not worth eating. One night, with no ice cream to scoop on, we took an ice cream sandwich from the bottom of the freezer, put it in the mini processor with a splash of milk and WOW, I can’t describe, it was like an ice creamy, chocolatey glaze! Thanks for sharing!
Great idea for the chocolate fix when you don’t want a whole cake around tempting you!
Love the honesty of this post. Nothing compare to a homemade cake in the oven…but in a pinch. Thanks so much for sharing on Momtrends.
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Sorry you are sick. Be careful with that cold, especially since you have an underlying asthma condition. I am sure your mother, the nurse has told you this. That is how people end up in the hospital with swine flu. It’s not the flu that gets them, it is the secondary respiratory infections such as bronchitis that turns to pneumonia. Their fever starts to decline and seem to be getting better… then the secondary infection kicks in. That happened to me, too. But I caught it before it turned to pneumonia. Blessings to you. Thanks for linking to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday. (FYI, I’m a nurse, too. That’s why I had to throw my two cents in.
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I’ve seen this before and been a little frightened to try it. Thanks for giving your honest opinion!
Feel better. I had the flu in September and it just stinks!
This is news to me. I’ll have to share this recipe with the family.
OMG! You are too funny. Now I have to make this just because you brought up Home Ec. We made some real doozies but never cake!
I use a similar recipe for my quick chocolate fixes as well. Best enjoyed warm from the oven but you are right probably not the best chocolate cake one has eaten but is good in a pinch.
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I would let it cool till it was warm and still moist fresh, then pour over some chocolate or cool dairy cream, delicious!
omg omg this rescipe is lovelly prefere the normal cake tho but fast and easy x