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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Um will you marry me?! I love this combo! I wish we could get pb2 in Aus!
why oh why can’t I find peanut flour or powdered peanut butter here in France !!! life’s so unfair !!!
Do you have a food processor, high powered blender or coffee grinder? If so, you can make your own! I would recommend toasting the peanuts a little first for best flavour = )
I’m not sure what happened! I used all the ingredients you recommended except I used Pure VIa instead of Stevia (1 Tbsp, because it says 1 to 1 conversion with sugar). It came out kind of dry, not very sweet, and not too peanut-buttery! Maybe I need to reduce the microwave time? Should I use sugar instead of Pure Via? I love the quick recipes because if I make a whole recipe i’ll eat the whole thing myself!
I’ve never tried PureVia or know what it is, so I don’t really know how it would work :-?.
This was DELICIOUS!!!
Do you think you can substitute the pb2 with pumkin purée?
I am wondering…can I mix this the night before and have it ready to microwave in the morning. I halved he recipe today and tried it, it was not bad…used almond milk, and coconut sugar. Not bad…a but bitter.
You can mix the dry ingredients together the night before.
I have made this three nights in a row. Time to hide the PB2!
Oh I did beat me. I made this two nights in a row and I tempted on the third. Too simple, quick and yummy! Maybe again tomorrow?
The batter and what I could eat of the result tasted amazing and I would like to try it again. But it exploded in the microwave! What did I do wrong? It didn’t seem overcooked (the stuff left in the mug) if anything undercooked. Can I place something on top? Let me know if you have ideas. Like I said, it tasted great, it would just be nice to have it all in one place.
P.S. I think this site is great. You are an inspiration Katie!
Maybe your microwave is too strong! Or try a bigger mug. Mine didn’t explode. I think my microwave is like 1000 watts or something.
Yum! I love the taste of peanut butter, really need to try it! 🙂
My very first friend was a boy. My best friend now is a guy. I just tend to get on better with the male of the species. 🙂
well, I don’t know if I did something wrong or if the recipe is not for my taste, but I couldn’t make myself eat more than one bite. I followed the recipe by the letter and all my ingredients are new and fresh. The cake was really small (I weighed it and it was 48 grams), tasted extremely bitter, and the peanut flavor was soooo strong that it made the cake impossible to swallow.
Do you have suggestions?
You say you “followed her recipe by the letter” but you obviously didn’t measure correctly, because your comment doesn’t add up. The gram amounts in her recipe are more than 48 grams, so you must have gone wrong somewhere and not even realized it.
Suggestion: make the cake correctly next time and see how much better it is! 🙂
From Katie’s post: “I personally don’t like the fat-free option and recommend the oil.”
Perhaps you should try it with the recommended oil added. I think if you leave a negative comment about a recipe, you should give all the information, because if you had just said you’d omitted the oil in the first place it would have been very easy to give you a suggestion of where you went wrong! Good luck if you decide to give the recipe another try, and for the future you should try to be more specific because otherwise other people will read your comment and think it is a bad recipe.
maybe you are right. I am pretty sure I used all the correct amounts though, that is weird. The only thing that I omitted was the oil. I’ll have to do it again and see. I love things very sweet so maybe I need to also add more sweetness to the cake! Anyway, I love this website and look forward to trying more recipes!
Oh yikes… don’t leave the oil out! (And that’s not really following the recipe “to the letter”, to be fair.) You can try and replace some of the oil with applesauce, banana, etc. as suggested in the recipe if you’re worried about calories, but the texture will be more dense than cakey. You could also do regular flour instead of PB flour and regular PB instead of the oil, but you need *some* fat in the mix for it to come out well. Hopefully the second time comes out better for you!
Sorry about writing “following the recipe to the letter”, I am french (but live in the US), and I might misuse some expressions sometimes. I didn’t mean to offend anyone or give a bad review to the recipe and I apologize for not being specific.
When Katie mentioned we could leave the oil out, so I thought it would be fine and that I would like it. It was my mistake.
Sorry again about my bad english, once again, I didn’t mean to upset anyone.
No worries, Audrey! Please never hesitate to leave a comment if you need help with a recipe!
Just made this with almond flour and I thought it was good.
For the people who thought it was bitter, it might be your cocoa. Try more sugar (or sugar substitute).
OMG Kathie!! I LOVE your site!! About every 2nd recipe I’m reading it’s like “I’m gonna try!” .. – “I HAVE to try”… 😀
But first I HAVE to try this one! Think I’m going to do this the next weekend 🙂
Thanks for sharing all these recipes!!
Greetings from Germany,
Bianca
Do you think coconut flour would work in place of the peanut flour?