The Best Ever Chocolate Mug Cake in Less than 5 Minutes

Hi Bold Babies. Hi Bold Bakers, with a brand new baby at home Kevin and I wanted to be extra safe so we couldn’t have our film crew come to the house this week. So it’s back to the good old days of Kevin and I filming. Yep I’m right here and Georgie is supposed to be sleeping. So I know you’re stuck at home and you’ve got a small amount of ingredients in your cupboard, I’m gonna show you how to make the Best Ever Chocolate Mug cake with the ingredients you have to hand. We’re gonna do something a little new in this episode, we’re gonna shoot it in real time. It’s gonna be really fast. So let’s have a look at the ingredients you’ll need. Some flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, an egg, some flavorless oil and chocolate chips. Ok so follow along with me and we’re gonna get this done in real time. I’ve got my official Bigger Bolder Baking mug here and into it I’m gonna ad my flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder. Not hot chocolate powder, unsweetened cocoa powder. Why not hot chocolate powder? Because hot chocolate powder is made with a lower grade of chocolate and there is sugar and different things added to it like thickeners and stuff, and unsweetened cocoa powder is pure chocolate and you want to make sure that you have the good stuff. There you go, baking powder and a pinch of salt. And then with a fork just mix your ingredients together. This is gonna make a big mug cake so it’s probably enough for 2 people or you can have a big one for yourself. But just so you know it’s a big guy. Into this we’re gonna add in our milk. If you’re dairy free you can use a dairy free milk. Gonna crack in an egg. A lot of you don’t eat eggs and if you don’t want to use an egg you can use apple sauce or a banana and I’ll put that information on the website. A little bit of oil. Flavorless oil like vegetable oil or canola oil, sunflower oil, just not olive oil. Then we’re gonna add in a few chocolate chips. There we go. And then with our spork that comes with the Bigger Bolder Baking mug we’re gonna mix all of these ingredients together. So Gemma, what makes this the best ever mug cake? That is a good question Kevin. So I thought to myself, why not take one of my most popular recipes my best ever chocolate cake, a big old cake, and take that and turn it into a mug cake. That’s what I did I paired it down made a really small portion and that’s what this is here. It’s a really soft lovely moist cake. There you go, what do you think of that Kev? That’s looking good. Nice and chocolatey. Yeah it’s big isn’t it? Love it. But these mugs are big so that’s good. Now like I said, real time, let’s pop this guy into the microwave. So now the cooking time is based on my microwave which is 1200 watts so check the wattage of your microwave because your cook time may very, but roughly it does take around 45 seconds to a minute. Let me tell you something, when people message me and say their mug cake was tough or hard it’s because they got over-microwaved. They really just need a short time so just be careful not to overdo it. Also Gem, what about some of your other mug recipes. Well I have over 100 other mug recipes both sweet and savory, thank you for asking Kevin. Some of our most popular recipes with tens of millions of views. Some of my personal favorites are mug pizza, microwave mug pizza. THat’s awesome. We have funfetti cake in the microwave that’s great. We have a donut in the microwave… what’s your favorite Kevin? I’d say mug macaroni and cheese. Mug macaroni and cheese oh that’s a good one. Oh look at that, gorgeous, mine only took around 45 seconds. And you can tell with just that little amount of time it’s still nice and soft. So I have some frosting here, because if you’re gonna do it do it right. We’re gonna pipe that on top. And then some sprinkles. Because everything is better with sprinkles. Oh my gosh look at that. So get into the kitchen and make this little guy, but before you do that check out all my other mug meals videos from pizza in a mug to Mac and cheese, donut, vanilla cake, whatever you want. Oh my gosh. Kevin do you want some of this? I sure do save some for me. Or actually I’ll just make my own. Yeah make your own, I’ll see ya.