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.
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