This is the kind of recipe that will make you want to leave your boyfriend if you have one.
Or at least lock him outside for an hour. A girl needs her space when chocolate and peanut butter are involved.
No boys allowed.
Above, topped with Healthy Coffee Fudge Frosting.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake
(single-serving)
Adapted from One-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake.
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 tsp cocoa powder (8g)
- 3 tablespoons powdered peanut butter (PB2 or Betty Lou’s) (For substitutions, see “nutrition facts” link below) (18g)
- scant 1/16 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar or xylitol (omit if you like bitter chocolate cake) (4g)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch stevia OR 1 additional tablespoon sugar
- 2 tsp coconut or veg oil, or mashed banana or applesauce (I personally don’t like the fat-free option and recommend the oil, but I’m adding the option because I know many of you don’t mind the taste/texture of the lower-fat version.) (8g)
- 3 tablespoons milk of choice (45g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
Mug Cake Recipe: Combine dry ingredients and mix very, very well. Add liquid, stir, then transfer to a little dish, 1-cup ramekin, or even a coffee mug. If using the microwave: cook 1 minute 25 seconds (time may vary, depending on your microwave’s wattage). If you don’t want to eat it straight out of the dish, be sure to spray your dish first (and then wait for the cake to cool before trying to remove it). You can cook this in an oven if you prefer, but you’ll have to experiment to find the correct amount of time.
Were you friends with boys growing up? Or did you think boys had cooties?
When I was really little, I was friends with all the boys. They had better toys! Swords and transformers and legos beat playing House any day. I never even heard the idea boys had cooties until third grade, and by then I already knew that wasn’t true.
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I love this. I might put it in a to-go container and microwave it at work for a 3 pm snack!
I love cake in a mug. I like to use 8 oz mason jars and bake them in the oven (if i had a microwave I’d probably be eating a lot more cake). There’s just something about an individual cake that you don’t have to share.
http://www.thesweetlifeonline.com/2012/07/10/individual-chocolate-espresso-cake-with-zucchini/
I was always with the boys too! I was, and still am, much of a tom-boy. I was a girl scout and wanted to be a boyscout because of all the fun trips they had and the projects they got to make! I can’t wait to start trying t=your recipes, as I just found your blog this past weekend! I would love to make my blog full time, but am finishing up a bit of schooling for the time being. Any advice on how to promote it/ get more readers?
Hi Katie! Here are all my posts tagged “blogging tips” https://lett-trim.today/tag/blogging-tips/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> Hope that’s somewhat helpful!
What is powdered peanut butter?? Never heard of it!
Google image search “pb2”
I have to try this! Sounds good.
oh gosh…truly a delish recipe!
Looks AMAZING. Every time I think I’m going to skip dessert that night, you go and post amazing looking things like this.
I didn’t think boys had cooties, it was just socially unacceptable to hang out with the boys at my school. I had a friend visit once, and, because all the girls were nasty, asked if we could sit with the boys during lunch. I told her “we don’t do that here.”
Now, in highschool, I have many friends who are boys.
Maybe I’ll play around with this and use regular peanut butter, but no oil? We’ll see!
Wait, actually, one of my best friends when I was little was a boy(now I’m having embarassing memories of that, and my mother’s face when I said he and a couple of my girl friends were playing spin the bottle. We were actually just spinning a bottle XD) But then when I was 7, I moved to the school where it was “unacceptable”.
Goodness! That looks so good! I have to try it ASAP 🙂
I bought my peanut flour at Southern Grace Farms.com http://www.southerngracefarms.com/peanutflour.html
-Kimberli
I love your blog, Katie. SO much. But it’s kind of difficult when you don’t enjoy the taste of peanuts 😛
I finally hopped on the coconut oil train and am in L-O-V-E! I am excited to try this and more of your recipes with my new little jar of coconut goodness:)
This was delicious! I didn’t have peanut flour so instead I added about 4 teaspoons protein powder and substituted peanut butter for the oil. It turned out MAGNIFICENT. Almost like a dark chocolate peanut butter cake <3
As a young girl I wanted to have ‘boy’ friends cos they had the coolest toys – cars, Lego, remote control toys, action figures, Transformers and the like. I got stuck with Barbie dolls, as we moved so much I never got to really make any friends – boy or girl.
As a super-tall, overweight and not-pretty teen I was shunned by both sexes.
As a young adult all my friends were male, because I was ‘one of the boys’. They did not see me as partner material, and so I was not a threat to their girlfriends or their girl-hunting activities. I was automatically and instantly friendzoned – but they got lots of inside advice on how to please their girls.
As an adult I am shy and awkward around women, because I am intimidated by them. I have never really fit in with women, I never know what to talk about because I hate fashion, make-up, celebrity gossip (especially the Kardashians and their ilk) and all the things the wives and girlfriends of my male friends and acquaintances (including hubby’s work colleagues) all talk about and gush over. And I especially do not get the fascination with Ryan Gosling, Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddlestone (Loki) or the extremely badly written “Fifty Shades” books (fanfic that should never have gotten published without serious editing). Maybe I should turn in my XX chromosomes and my “I am Woman” card…
I just made this and it was fantastic! I didn’t have time to make any frosting and because it was sort of a “midnight” snack, I just spread a little almond butter and cinnamon on top while it was hot and it was yummy! I’ll bet this would be great with your Reeses Pieces frosting!