It’s been a while since my last post! Something came up that took me away from the computer, but things should go back to normal pretty soon. I’m trying to catch up with your emails and recipe questions.
I also finally updated my About Chocolate Covered Katie page.
People kept saying I needed a new photo of me, since the last one was 3 years old! Not that I’ve changed much… Some of my friends look vastly different from their high-school selves, but I think I look pretty much the same as I did even fifteen years ago. Except I had bangs back then!
What else hasn’t changed much?
My love of all things chocolate-chip. So this healthy chocolate chip mug cake—made in less than 5 minutes—will always sound good to me!
It’s delicious topped with coconut ice cream or my Homemade Frozen Yogurt.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Mug Cake
Single Serving Chocolate Chip Cake In A Mug
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup spelt flour, or all-purpose (readers have had success with Bob’s gluten-free)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1.5 tbsp xylitol or sugar of choice
- pinch pure stevia, or 1 more tbsp sugar
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp milk of choice
- 1/2 tbsp oil or more milk of choice
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1-3 tbsp chocolate chips
Instructions
To make the cake in a mug: If using an oven, preheat to 350F. In a small bowl, mix all dry ingredients. Now pour wet into dry, and stir until just evenly combined. Pour into greased ramekins, a little dish, or a mug. (Or two 1/2-cup ramekins.) If using the microwave, cook for 1 minute 20 seconds (Microwave times will vary depending on wattage). Or cook this in the oven for around 14-15 minutes. Let cool before trying to pop out. Makes 2 small muffins or one jumbo muffin!
Question of the Day:
Do you look completely different from how you looked 5 years ago?
Or do you look exactly the same? And are you a completely different person in terms of personality? Sometimes I look at people who have changed so much over the years, and I don’t understand how that happens… Do they just wake up one day and say, “I think I want to become a completely new person, starting today”?
Link Of The Day:
Wow! This recipe looks so delicious, yet easy to make! I’m so impressed with your creative and convenient recipes every time 🙂
First, I cannot wait to try this for dessert tonight. I have all the ingredients just waiting to turn into this delicious little bit topped with some vanilla coconut ice cream…..
Secondly, “Do they just wake up one day and say, “I think I want to become a completely new person, starting today”?” – Sometimes, yes, I think some people go against the grain and make a decision in the moment, and continue to stay in the moment. I was just reading this article today, it’s about Rich Roll, a vegan athlete who did just that. When from overweight and unhealthy to ultra ironmaner & on of Men’s Health Top 25 Fittest men.
http://www.nomeatathlete.com/nma-radio-rich-roll/
As for myself? I wouldn’t say completely different. I was 10 pounds lighter, didn’t keep up with my highlights or eyebrows as well though. I wore different glasses, so that always makes you look different. And looking back I was usually holding a cigarette, that’s changed too (yay!). If you could see the changes on the inside as easily as the outside, now THAT would be a change 🙂
Hi CCK! love your new site graphics and the way it’s laid out – so pretty! Can’t wait to try the choc chip cake in a mug! Yum-o!
Question – have you ever used Oat Fiber in any of your recipes? I am about to make some Oat Fiber Almond Milk pancakes this evening using that ingredient and wondered if you know of it and use it yourself? I don’t see any reference to it when I search your yummie recipes.
Any thoughts would be great.
take care and keep on with the chocolate!
BCG
Sorry, I haven’t.
Katie this looks SO good!!! I can’t wait to try this for my boyfriend and I 🙂
Hi Katie!
Thanks for this recipe! I made it today for my son and used 1 tbsp PB in place of the oil to make a PB and choco chips cake. He absolutely LOVED it!! It was so easy and so good, the texture came out amazing (which we were both impressed since when we tried mug cakes before they came out too dry).
Thanks again!!
Ana
May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. I’m guessing you already knew that 😉
I don’t think I look all that different, except I wear my hair a little bit shorter and my skirts a tiny bit longer. I definitely have changed personality-wise in the past few years, since I went vegan for animal rights reasons. I think going vegan naturally comes with a little personality shift. I like to think that I was always a compassionate person and an animal-lover, but something about going vegan makes you open your eyes and your heart a little bit wider when it comes to any stories of injustice.
I love the idea of single serve cakes and muffins, for when you just want ot treat yourself.
I look quite different from 5 years ago, as I’ve lost 4 stone. Personality wise, I have a lot more confidence, and know myself better than then.
That was a great question, it got me thinking.
Sometimes I wish I could become a whole new person… Until that happens I’ll console myself with this cake 😛
I love these little cakes, so perfect when you just want a little snack.
I look the same as 5 years ago but really different from 7 years ago. I lost 60 pounds so the difference is quite noticeable.
I missed seeing your recipes in my inbox, so I’m glad to see a new chocolate one! I hope everything is okay and that you’re able to get back to “normal life” soon.
I look exactly the same as I did 5 years ago! Well, okay, I had bangs back then too… Guess that was the popular thing to do! I haven’t even grown in height since 6th grade, and my feet haven’t grown since 3rd… I’ll be a size 3 in kids shoes forever!
CCK, I love your website and your recipes, but it is not possible that the entire recipe has only 2 grams of fat if it has half a tbsp of oil and 1-3 tbsp chocolate chips. I know you are not promoting calorie counting, but for those of us to whom it matters, it would be tremendously helpful to be specific if you allow variances in your recipes to specify how they are made. This one would have to be w/ the milk instead of the oil, correct? And only one tbsp of chocolate chips? In order to equal your analysis. Please correct me if I’m wrong….
Thank you for the inspiration to make dessert healthier. Could you substitute whole wheat flour for this recipe?
Yes, that works.
I am a completely different person than who I was five years ago. Then, I would have never dreamed that I would be baking vegan things, or baking anything other than a boxed mix!
I was a smoker, an alcoholic, and a sneak. I totally hid how much I was drinking. I was surrounded by the wrong kind of friends, people who talked down to me and encouraged my self-destructive behavior. I wasn’t doing anything I loved, I worked a stream of dead-end jobs. I was in a loveless marriage with somebody who cheated on me right under my nose, and I didn’t even realize it.
I smoked and drank for 15 years!! That is a long time to waste your life away!!
The first thing I did was quit drinking, a decision my husband and friends treated like it was a joke. Several months later, I had my “moment of clarity” (so cliche, I know, but it is a real thing!), and I realized that I was a hot mess and I needed to liberate myself. That is exactly what I did. I kicked my husband out (who didn’t really put up a fight), ditched my “friends”, and became closer with my family. A year later I quit smoking. I have gained weight, I grew out my hair (and went back to my natural color- I had forgotten how beautiful it is!), I mostly wear dresses and skirts now (I used to dress like a tomboy), I landed my dream job– which everybody in my “old” life told me I could never have, and I am surrounded by AMAZING friends who love me and empower me to do great things.
All because I woke up one morning and decided to become a different person.
Actually, now I am pretty much the same as I was BEFORE i started drinking & smoking. I was a very sweet girl. I worked with the elderly a lot, donating my time to make the world a better place for them. I had forgotten how much joy elderly people bring me, and how much joy I bring them. It’s so nice to do what you love.
It feels good to be a different person! If there is something you don’t like about yourself, change it! Change is good. Not as good as cake though. Ok, maybe it’s a little better than cake. Not by much. Plus, cake is easier, especially recipes like this! How about a compromise? Mug cake first, then change. Mmmmmm…. sweet, delicious compromise…
It is SO true what they say about recovering from alcoholism– sugar is your new best friend. The reason I love this blog is that now I can have healthier versions of the sweets I have come to love since quitting drinking, and because Katie is cute and witty about presenting her recipes. It’s not only the recipes, but Katie’s charm (and the pictures!!!!) that keeps me coming back. Thank you, Katie!
I’m commenting in case this might help others figure out the “goo at the bottom” problem… I finally tracked down a 12-ounce ramekin. Yep, a little more width and everything gets “cooked” more evenly! I’m g-free and worked with a brownie-mug-muffin recipe I found…used you as inspiration…with coconut oil and coconut milk…and added a little dried coconut just because I could!! WOW!! I can’t make them more than once a week! (Oh, and 5 years ago I was at least 6 sizes larger…so…I can completely relate to that “epiphany moment” where you wake up and decide to become someone else. Of course, it took me months to actually reach that point… I, too, have people I saw every week not recognize me. And that suits me just fine!)
Can I use a 1/4 cup of oil instead of a 1/4 cup of applesauce, or would that make the cake mix too thin?