Sometimes you just NEED a sweet dessert indulgence but really don’t want to eat something filled with fat and calories. We have just the solution… Lindsay S. Nixon’s Chocolate Mug Cake! While this single serving cake isn’t exactly diet food, it’s much lower in calories and fat than many other more decadent treats, and was created with health in mind.
You’ll find this recipe and many others in Lindsay’s book, Everyday Happy Herbivore: Over 175 Quick-and-Easy Fat-Free and Low Fat Vegan Recipes. Lucky for you, we are giving away a copy! It’s a one day only contest, so be sure to enter right away for a chance to win… click here for the info.
Chocolate Mug Cake (serves 1)
Chocolate cake? check. Single-Serving? check. Made nearly instantly? Oh yeah! This whole-wheat chocolate cake goes from flour to in your mouth in under 5 minutes.
Ingredients:
4 tbsp white whole wheat flour
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp Earth Balance® Organic Soy Milk
¼+ cup unsweetened applesauce
vanilla extract
dash cinnamon
2-3 tbsp vegan chocolate chips
In a small bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and cinnamon together, set aside. For a really sweet cake, add more sugar. In another small bowl, whisk ¼ cup applesauce, Earth Balance® Organic Soy Milk, and a drop or two of vanilla extract together. Pour wet into dry, then add chips, stirring to combine. Add another 1-2 tbsp of applesauce, until the batter is wet and resembles regular cake batter. Pour batter into a coffee cup, and microwave for three minutes (at 1000 watts).
Per Serving: 276 Calories, 4.1g Fat, 59.3g Carbohydrates, 7.8g Fiber, 31.6g Sugar, 8.3g
Wow, who knew a cake could be made so quickly and easily? What’s your favorite sweet treat that can be made in 20 minutes or less? Tell us about it in the comments below and we’ll pick one commenter to win free Earth Balance® in today’s Everyday Giveaway!
- Categories: Cooking and Baking
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- cafecarriee
- Jan 18, 2012
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- Ellen Barth
- Jan 18, 2012
- 20
Anything chocolate! I have made a similar chocolate mug cake that was good. This sounds really wonderful. Can't wait to try it.
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- Melissa McElroy
- Jan 19, 2012
- 21
I like to melt some chocolate chips, dip prezels in them, and let them cool. They're delicious, and it only takes a few minutes.
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- Miriam Wilcox
- Jan 20, 2012
- 22
I used to love raw banana ice cream.
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- Jennifer Dios
- Jan 20, 2012
- 23
OMG, Randi! That sounds too good to be true. I have to try it!
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- Mia Matiouchin
- Jan 27, 2012
- 24
This cake recipe was absolutely DISGUSTING. I apologize for the rudeness, but honestlym my high hopes for the recipe were dashed the very moment I took the mug out of the microwave. It turns out my immediate apprehension towards microwaving a dessert that should be baked, was right. It wasn't cooked, it's just heated flour and other ingredients. I used carob chips, which was the only good part in the whole blob. The rest was a wet mess of gross. I highly do not recommend this recipe.
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- Michelle Wentling
- Feb 7, 2012
- 25
Yum! Made my mug cake using a GF flour blend. for a fudgier version, use 1 less Tbs of flour to make a gooey cake, yum
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- mystysa
- Feb 18, 2012
- 26
Very simple..although I did add more brown sugar and dusted w/powdered sugar =)
