The best idea for cake lovers, ever. Check out the original post here: Chocolate Cake in 5 minutes
Now then, the ingredients:
- 4 Tablespoons cake flour
- 4 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa
- 1 Egg
- 3 Tablespoons milk
- 3 Tablespoons oil
- 1 Mug
And the directions:
- Mix flour, sugar and cocoa.
- Spoon in 1 egg
- Pour in milk and oil, and mix well
- Put in microwave for 3 minutes on maximum power (1000watt)
- Wait until it stops rising and sets in the mug
- Tip contents out of mug onto saucer and enjoy!
How awesome does that sound? I think I’m gonna do some experimenting and tweaking of this recipe this weekend and will post any tasty results (we’ll pretend failures didn’t happen).
For those wondering, here are approximate nutrition facts (different oils, eggs, flours, milks, etc will cause slight variations… this is an average):
850 calories
50g fat
80g carb
20g protein
Someone else had this to say in the comments of that post regarding nutrition:
So now you know… don’t make this and eat the whole thing if you’re on a diet.
Hot on the heels of FireFox 3.0 being released (have you downloaded it yet??), the Wine team has announced they’ve finally hit version 1.0!
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!
While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see the details for your favorite applications.
Congrats guys, it was a long time coming!!! For those who don’t know, in short, Wine allows you to run Windows programs in a Linux environment. Right from their about page:
Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop.
The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since. Over the years, ports for other Unixes have been added, along with support for Win32 as Win32 applications became popular.
Cool, huh? Speaking of cool, check out the cake that Microsoft sent over to the FireFox crew:
Now that’s class! Those of you may remember that this same thing happened for the launch of FireFox 2:
Gotta love the sense of humor these guys have!
Jess made her first ever fondant cake today! She spent all weekend making it to see if it was even possible. I think that this is pretty good for a first try:
She wants to make the cake for our wedding, and just needs a little practice so expect more cakes to show up on here as she makes them!
For anyone who is wondering here are the nutrition facts (I’m a nutrition minor so I was compelled after making this to figure it out) They are for if you use Canola Oil and if you use Skim Milk.
776 calories
48.9g fat
80.4g carb
17g protein
The exact breakdown is as follows:
flour: (.25 cup or 4 tbsp): 114 cal, 0.3g fat, 23.8g carb, 3.2g protein
sugar: (4 tbsp): 186 cal, 0g fat, 48 g carb, 0g protein
egg: 1 large: 74 cal, 5g fat, .4g carbs, 6.3g protein
cocoa powder: (2 tbsp): 25cal, 1.5g fat, 5.9g carb, 2.1g protein
canola oil: (3 tbsp): 360 cal, 42 fat, 0 carb, 0 protein
milk, skim (3 tbsp or .1875 cup): 17 cal, .1g fat, 2.3g carb, 1.6g protein