Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe in 5 minutes: a super quick and easy method to make chocolate cake in a mug in your microwave. Perfect for odd hour chocolate cake cravings!
Making cake in a microwave, that too a microwave chocolate cake, is a no-brainer to me. Most of my childhood stories that my parents relate revolve around chocolate in some form.
So yeah, I am a chocolate-lover and this microwave mug cake is a really dangerous thing to enter my life. Throw some ingredients you already have in your pantry into a mug, microwave for a minute on high, and there you go – mug cake!
Sugar cravings are real and while it’s advisable to ignore it most of the time, sometime’s a girl’s gotta have her chocolate cake!
When 5-min chocolate mug cake recipes did their rounds in the Internet, I turned a blind eye. I told myself it can’t actually be chocolate cake if it’s made in a mug in the microwave for 2 minutes, can it?
Well, it is. I recently caved and made the darn thing one night when I had to have something with chocolate in it. It took all of 5 mins to whip one up for myself and it was good. Like, really good.
This chocolate mug cake is springy and fudge-y and tastes just like regular cake, trust me. All you need are basic ingredients which you probably already have in your pantry. Even an occasional baker or complete beginner can whip up a mug cake.
So what type if microwave is needed to make cake? For this mug cake, a generic microwave that has heating functionality is good enough. Isn’t it a delightfully scary thought that now there’s nothing (much) standing between you and a mug of delicious chocolate cake?
Also check out this microwave chocolate cake ready in 7 minutes, and this chocolate chip cookie in a cup recipe. Want to make cake without an oven? Here you go – pressure cooker chocolate cake recipe that turns out perfect!
5-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoon flour
- 5 tablespoon sugar white or brown
- 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons milk any milk will do
- 3 tablespoons butter or any neutral oil
- A pinch of salt if using unsalted butter
- 2 drops of vanilla extract optional
Instructions
- Grab two microwave-safe coffee mugs that can hold about 250 ml liquid
- Halve the quantity of flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and sugar and add into each mug.
- Mix well with a fork.
- Then halve the quantity of milk, butter, and vanilla and add into each mug.
- Break egg into another small bowl, whisk with a fork, and add half of it into each mug.
- Stir well until all the ingredients mix well. Make sure there is no flour stuck to the bottom of the mug.
- Add one mug at a time to the microwave and cook on medium heat for 2 mins.
- Every microwave acts differently and mine is a very basic one with just two knobs, one for heat level (low, medium, high) and one for time. I kept mine on medium and set each mug at 2 minutes. The cake turned out perfect.
- If your microwave can show power levels, etc, keep it at medium and start with 2 minutes.
- You can adjust it once you take a look at your cooked cake.
Important Notes for Making Mug Cake in a Microwave:
- Bake mug cakes in regular heating mode, not convection mode on your microwave.
- Stop cooking the cake when its still a bit fudge-y and goo-ey around the edges. The cake cooks a bit more while cooling down (yes you will have to wait a while after it cooks!).
- For an eggless chocolate mug cake, replace the egg with 3 tbsp plain yogurt (1.5 tbsp for each mug).
- If you make this without eggs, it won’t be as airy as the version with eggs. Still, if you don’t eat eggs, it’s absolutely acceptable to go the eggless route.
- You can add chopped nuts, chocolate chips or sprinkles on the cake to jazz it up.
- Serve with whipped cream or ice-cream for an extra special touch. Works great if you are hosting and want a quick dessert idea
- Almost all ceramic mugs can take 2-3 mins in the microwave but be mindful of what you choose. Ceramic or glass works best. Avoid plastic mugs (not just for microwave use but in general, if possible).
For chocolate mug cake recipe in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, etc please use the Google translate button in the sidebar.
Hai…
my mugs can hold 350ml liquid. whereas ur recipe calls 4r two mugs of 250 ml capacity. mine r slightly bigger ones… but MW safe. so can i bake the above mentioned quantity, as mentioned in ur recipe, in a single mug without distributing equally between two mugs?? i wonder how the time factor would vary? can u give me some clues?? i'm new 2 baking but would love to bake for my little son who loves cakes.
i still recommend dividing and baking for even distribution of heat in the microwave.
i haven't tried that but yes, it should work
thanx so much…. then i better get some smaller mugs from the market… i would anyway love to own a few of these mugs.
i've one more doubt… many cake recipes list APF and BP… can v replace these two with SRF??? i mean just omit BP and replace APF with SRF??? afterall SRF is a uniform mixture of two…
btw…i enjoy visiting your blog… planning 2 try the mug version and a few other eggless cakes…have marked your recipes as reference for me…
thanx…
valli.
Any replacement for eggs in this recipe?
yes, the eggless option is mentioned at the bottom of the post. please read through 🙂
Honestly this recipe is such a life saver. I am just now going to bake it. Yes I do mean NOW. I will let you know the result. There are so many times when I just want something maybe for breakfast or just when I am hungry late at night. This will do perfectly. Satisfy me to the core.
This is my 1st encounter of making cake in microware. I made this today. 1st time i forgot to add yogurt so it came out bit hard and i also made a mistake of keeping for 2 1/2 mins. 2nd time i forgot baking powder so it came out sticky. Third time it came out perfectly. Thanks a lot of this recipe. i can make it when ever my daughter ask for it.
Can it be cooked not in microwave but in rice cooker? rice cooker can cook cake too rh?
yes you can bake cakes in rice cooker but i am not sure how this recipe will turn out
not sure, i haven't baked cake in a rice cooker before. but why don't you let it cook until the timer goes off?
oh k then im gonna try it 🙂 how long do u think it shud be in ricecooker?/
Hi Naga,
I made this today , result of a chocolate craving after dinner, so arnd 9pm I made this…. 🙂 was extremely good. It was a bit low on sugar for my hus, but I really loved it, soft n springy….I will make this again and mayb even post it soon on my blog ! 🙂
Thanks for this one.
Regards,
Manju
http://manjuseatingdelights.blogspot.com
I had never ever countered any easy tips to make like this one, I am a disaster at cook but I love drooling over your site and I am definitely making this one tomorrow for sure. 🙂 Your photos are so b'ful. just picture perfect..
I tried this, and for the first time, my cake cooked just perfect!! 😀
I am so delighted, I served it hot with vanilla ice cream.
I tried it and loved it!! I'm a vegetarian so I used the yogurt(as there's loads of it coz guess what! I'm a Tam-Bharm!) instead and it turned out just fine.. I cheated a little though(I used milk powder with water as I was out of milk!) but it was still awesome!!
I'm in love with it.
Bookmarked the chocolate yogurt cake will try that soon. 🙂
Do I need to add baking powder?
yes it's mentioned in the recipe