Cake in a mug

[davidn]

I think I might need to adjust the recipe a bit. This has somehow inverted itself and become mug in a cake.

Comments

[kjorteo]

Did anyone have to go to the hospital? If not, you can at least count it as a relative success.

[davidn]

Nobody's ever had to go to the hospital after eating anything prepared by me!

Well, someone has, but that was more due to him being hit on the head by a golf ball as he walked out of the clubhouse than anything that I might have done in the kitchen. (Do you know this about me, that I used to work in a golf club kitchen? They taught me everything I know about cooking.)

[kjorteo]

I think you're forgetting someone, Mr. can't-eat-anything-interesting-ever-again.

[davidn]

Ah. Right... I can't argue with that. It must be said that nobody could provide a medical explanation for my subsequent illness then being caused by eating something bad, but I sort of hope that it was directly connected so that I don't ever have to go through it again.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

1) There are not many recipes that I would have thought could be inverted (pineapple upside-down cake would be one), but I'd say this definitely qualifies!

2) I'm holding my tongue on #2. XD

[davidn]

I blame American flour.

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

That's a very frothy cake. In fact, you may have just invented the cake drink!

[davidn]

Even though it looks like froth, it was actually cakish and solid (though I used too much syrup and most of the remains inside was sort of... gluish instead). The awful taste was a separate problem.

[pami-zee.livejournal.com]

When I make it to America, I will teach you my fool-proof cookie recipe. It is amazing, and you can keep the dough in the fridge for about a week and have fresh, warm cookies at 5 minutes notice... Mmmmm. Far better than plastic-y microwave cakes!

[davidn]

No need, you can buy it in a tub here. Why yes, this is horrifying.

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

Your cake has everted! Now all we have to do is wait for it to grow a single large, red eye... :P

D.F.

[davidn]

"The ancient Greeks called it Pandora's Box. What they meant to say was in fact "davidn's cooking."

[stubbleupdate.livejournal.com]

Cake in a mug in the microwave works better in a plastic tub like you might get from Takeaways

[davidn]

Volume is definitely a major problem here. Unfortunately, so was taste.

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

I have absolutely no idea how you managed to get it to do that. Nothing like that has ever happened when I've used that recipe. You must really be cursed.

[davidn]

As I suggested above, I'm quite serious about blaming American flour... the self-raising variety is not common here, and you have to add baking powder and salt yourself. It's possible that, unused to such low quantities of flour, I might have overdone it a bit.

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

That's entirely possible. For three spoonfuls of flour, you should only need a fraction of a teaspoon, or maybe just a generous pinch.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I may have another mug-cake recipe that might work out for you. I remember it being chocolate, though. Let me know and I'll send it along :)

[davidn]

Please do! You know I love to experiment ;)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Okay, odd, I've re-made the recipe into ounces (which is typically used in professional baking) but I seem to see a standard recipe online which seems to duplicate what it should relate to.

4 tablespoons flour (cake flour preferred, all-purpose is fine)
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
dash of vanilla extract

Mix the flour, sugar, and cocoa in a microwave-safe mug.
Add the egg and mix again.
Finally, add the milk, oil, vanilla, and chocolate chips.

Microwave on High for 3 minutes. (I have 5 min written down here but people are saying 3min on a 1000-watt oven and 4min on a 700w oven. Maybe my microwave's REALLY old.) Let it cool for a couple of minutes (letting the popped-out cake theoretically return to the mug).

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I'd love to see the recipe that caused your mug-in-a-cake, btw. :)