I’m in Valentine’s Day mode.
Fresh berries, red wine, an exorbitant amount of dark chocolate…
Really, I guess that’s my everyday mode. 🙂
But honestly what’s the point of waiting until February 14th? This quick chocolate lava cake is easy to make, secretly good for you, and deliciously rich.
To make it even more delicious, top it with my homemade Healthy Chocolate Sauce.
Upon breaking into the cake, you will find a gorgeous pink berry filling that pours out like molten lava.
It’s much too good to save for once a year.
Chocolate Lava Cake In A Mug
Adapted from the reader favorite “One Minute” Chocolate Mug Cake
- 3 tbsp spelt, all-purpose, or Bob’s gf flour
- 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp dutch or unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp sugar of choice or xylitol
- pinch stevia or 1 extra tbsp sugar of choice
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp milk of choice
- 2 1/2 tsp vegetable or coconut oil (Although I don’t personally like the cake when applesauce is subbed for the oil, many commenters do think it tastes good this way. Sub at your own risk.)
- 2 tbsp mashed raspberries or raspberry jam (If using the raspberries, feel free to mix in a little of your favorite sweetener.)
- small handful mini chocolate chips, optional
If using the oven, preheat to 350F. Grease a small dish or 1-cup ramekin. In a separate small bowl, combine first 6 ingredients and stir very well. Add the oil, vanilla, and milk and stir to form a batter. Spoon half the batter into the greased dish, spoon the raspberries and optional chocolate chips on top (only in the middle of the batter), then top off with remaining chocolate batter. Either microwave 30-40 seconds or bake 13-14 minutes. If you don’t want to eat it straight out of the dish, be sure to wait for it to cool before trying to remove the cake.
View Lava Cake Nutrition Facts
If desired, top with any of my 30+ Healthy Frosting Recipes.
This was really good. Will become my go-to dessert. Best mug cake recipe I’ve used with a good chocolate flavor without being bitter as some are, especially when used with alternative sweeteners. I used Truvia as my sweetener and Smuckers Sugar Free Strawberry Jam as the filling, as that’s what I had on hand. This was moist. It rose to a cake consistency while still being moist and dense. The fruit filling is very nice with the chocolate and adds a nice glaze if you turn the mug upside down and plop the cake down on a saucer.
I love your recipes but sometimes I’d like to make them for my family of 7. Would this multiply well?
Do you have her cookbook by any chance? She has larger serving sizes in there for a lot of her recipes. If you do own the book, Use her Chocolate Obsession Cake and add raspberry jam either before baking to the middle or spread it in between the layers. It is amazing like that!
https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/chocolate-covered-katie-cookbook/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Just made this tonite. I’m not a huge fan of raspberries but I LOVE cherries! So I thawed some frozen cherries and it was perfect for me. I did have to increase the time to a minute as it was still underdone at 40 seconds.
Just make this cake and it was so delicious and took less than 5 minutes! I subbed mashed banana instead of oil and it worked really well- I will definitely be making this again.
HAS ANYONE MADE THIS THIS IN A LARGER AMOUNT? A SINGLE SERVING OF SOMETHING SO YUMMY WOULD BE TORTURE.
Do you have her book by any chance? She has larger servings in there for a lot of her recipes. If you do own the book, Use her Chocolate Obsession Cake and add raspberry jam either before baking to the middle or spread it in between the layers. It is amazing like that! https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/chocolate-covered-katie-cookbook/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I’m wondering how the nutritional info could be right…wouldn’t the flour alone be about 100 calories? Not that it would stop me from eating this cake, it was great, but just curious
They looks so yummy I can almost taste them!!! I really love buttery cookies. Great recipe as always. Hugs!
I’ve made this three times and it’s so yummy! I use raspberry jam because fresh raspberries aren’t currently in season where I live. For future reference, it might be a good idea to include the wattage on your microwave when posting single-serving microwave recipes. This recipe recommends 30-40 seconds in the microwave, but I always have to cook mine for at least two minutes. Just a thought!
I make this dessert at least once a month, so delicious…..warm and chocolatety,Yum!
My family loves it.!
Hello Iv just had this dessert and it is delicious but when I put the recipient onto my fitness pal (I followed the recipie to the t) it stated a very different nutritional value the calories were double what it said on here. I just wondered if anyone else uses my fitness pal and tell me what I could of done to make the calories double? Thank you. 🙂