Tasty Tuesdays - Cake in a cup

Five Minute Cake in a Cup

You've run out of chocolate, nothing in the house is sweet enough to fulfil your naughty sweet tooth craving. What can you do? In most peoples cupboards there are the ingredients for a cake but baking a cake can take a lot of time if you need a quick fix in your busy schedule.

This recipe is quick and easy and the washing up created is minimal.

Chocolate Microwave Cake in a Cup 

(I used these lovely vintage soup bowls I bought from a charity shop)

Ingredients

makes on large ish cup cake (half ingredients for smaller cup)

4 tbsp self raising flour
4 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 egg
3 tbsp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
handful of chocolate chips (if you have them)

Method

Add Flour and Sugar to bowl/cup and mix together

Add cocoa powder and mix.

Add Egg, Milk and Vanilla Essence then mix throughly until light and fluffy. Add Chocolate chips, mix those in.

Then your mix is ready for 3 mins on high in the microwave (If it doesn't look quite ready give it another 30 seconds to 1 min blast to finish off).

The cake will rise out of the cup/bowl during and after cooking but will slip back down after cooling.

I made two cakes but honestly one would have been enough to share. 

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Tip: To make this dish even more naughty, tip it out onto a plate and cover in double cream or custard. Could even add a few strawberries (all part of your 5 a day) ;)