This recipe should be on all student handbooks when they enter college. It takes literally 5 minutes from start to finish, its cheap and its actual chocolate cake!
The recipe can be found easily by googling it but I've changed it slightly, from the original recipe by only using one teaspoon of oil rather than the 3 most recipes list. If you find this leaves your cake too dry you can always add a little more next time or just have some icecream on the side instead!
For the cocoa flavour it's not neccessary to buy a whole jar of cocoa, for a cheaper price to begin with purchase only the small sachets used for a cup or two of cocoa, and then depending on whether you like the recipe or not you can purchase a larger jar.
Ingredients and prices:
4 tablespoons of flour. Odlums Cream Flour 1 kg. €1.29.
4 tablespoons of sugar. Tesco Caster Sugar 500g. €0.69.
2 tablespoons cocoa. Options instant Belgian chocolate sachet 11g. €0.99.
1 egg. Tesco eggs, pck of 6. €0.99.
3 tablespoons of milk. Avonmore fresh milk, 330ml. €0.52.
1 tablespoon oil. Tesco Pure Sunflower oil, 1 litre. €1.35
1 mug!
Method:
Mix the flour, sugar and cocoa. then stir in one egg.
Next pour in the milk and oil and mix it well.
Put mug into the microwave for three minutes on maximum power. Once the time is up wait until the contents of the mug have stopped rising to take out it out of the microwave. Tip the contents of the mug onto a plate and enjoy! Feel free to add ice cream, fruit or any sauce.
The cake costs €5.83 but ingredients such as the flour and oil will last a long time even if unused.
Enjoy your 5 minute mug cake!
If you like this recipe (and I do!), you might want to check out other microwave mug cake recipes. I created 101 of them. You can find a Blueberry Muffin Microwave Mug Cake recipe at my web site, www.microwavemugcakes.com.
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