The rich chocolate mug cake displayed before your very eyes can be made in under 5 minutes.
And it serves just one person.
Unless you’re crazy and decide to share…
You’re not crazy, are you?
Yeah, me neither. 😉
When I heard today was National Coffee Break Day, my first thought was to write a post highlighting all of my previously-published coffee recipes. But then I decided posting a new recipe would be much more fun… especially if said new recipe involved coffee and chocolate! (Chocolate is always more fun.)
So I came up with something I’d been meaning to try for a while: a mocha version of the popular One-Minute Chocolate Cake:
One Minute Mocha Mug Cake
Topped with Homemade 4 Ingredient Ice Cream.
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 tsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp spelt, white, or Arrowhead Mills gf flour
- 1/2 tsp instant coffee granules, decaf if desired
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tsp granulated sugar or xylitol
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 additional tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp coconut or veg oil (Edit: many commenters have said it still tastes good if you sub applesauce or mashed banana. I can’t personally vouch for the results if you make that substitution.)
- 3 tbsp milk of choice
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
Combine dry ingredients and mix very, very well. Add liquid, stir, then transfer to a little dish, ramekin, or even a coffee mug. If using a microwave, cook 45-50 seconds (or more, depending on how powerful your microwave is). If using an oven: cook at 350F for about 14 minutes. 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).
See the original version for: Mug Cake Calories and Nutrition Facts.
In honor of today, serve with Copycat Healthy Starbucks Frappuccinos.
What are your favorite sources of caffeine?
Coffee? Tea? Chocolate? If you don’t already know mine, you must have forgotten what blog you are on!
Katie, I am in love with your recipes! My little guy is allergic to wheat and eggs and I thought my love of baking would have to come to an end! How great that SO many of these recipes are gluten free, allergy free, AND healthy! So excited to try them!
Uh, sorry to be difficult, but how can I make this cake and others without a microwave? Please give me some substitution info for a gs oven…
Thank you.
Ooops, I meant GAS not gs (above).
This. was. so. good. I had a mad chocolate craving and instead of binging, I had this delicious little cake in a mug. Took minutes to make. THANK YOU!
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Is it bad that I’m making this every day for a snack??? 🙂 Today I used oat flour and 3 packets of stevia. Loved it! (although the coconut sugar is sweeter!)
This i something I make very often, with lots of variations and it’s never gone wrong. I usually use double the amount of coffee called for, to give mysel an extra caffeine boost. I also omit the sugar but I do add a tablespoon of semi sweet chocolate chips. I’ve found that whole wheat flour works for this recipe too, just substitute tablespoon for tablespoon. Not sure about the wattage of my microwave but cooking time is normally about 60-90 seconds for me, at full power.
I just made this and it was soooooo good! I substituted 2T of the flour for almond flour and the other 1T GF flour and also the milk for ‘filmjölk’, runny yoghurt-like stuff that we have in Sweden, and I think it was pretty delicious! I couldn’t really taste the coffee though.
Oh man, can’t wait to try the other single-serving recipes! So much easier (and cheaper, and better for my waistline) than cooking a whole cake or whatever!
Found out too late that we didn’t have any type of milk in the house, so I substituted water instead. Happy to report that it turned out just fine, but I do enjoy it with coconut milk better! 🙂
I double this recipe and make one for me and one for my fiance ALL THE TIME. I use brown rice flour for gluten reasons, and it turns out great. It’s so wonderful for a little after-dinner treat that I can whip up during a commercial break.
Tried this tonight. I will definitely leave out the coffee next time. It’s fairly bitter, and that put it over the top for me.
I substituted coconut flour after making according to the recipe above in the past. I won’t be doing that again! The coconut oil sucked up all of the liquid. I had to practically triple the liquid amounts, and it still wasn’t enough. Bummer! Next time I’ll stick with regular old, limited-nutritional-benefit-white flour!
Why not use the spelt flour called for in the recipe? It’s whole-grain that way :).
I tried making this recipe but I was so surprised when the batter was clearly not what batter is supposed to look like! It was very ccrumbly, the dry to wet ingredients seemed to be way too high. I tried adding more milk+ oil but it still didnt come out cake-y when I took it out of the microwave, it was just a mess. I dont understand why! I used white flour and followed the recipe very closely! Also I had a look at some other mug-cake recipes on our blog and I noticed that usually there are more wet ingredients than dry ingredients in volume, whereas for this one there is about 4.5T dry to 4 wet. Im confused.
Okay so I made this recipe as follows:
no coffee powder (I don’t have any!)
all sugar
bob’s gf flour
artisana coconut oil
It was awesome. Thanks for satisfying my sweet craving!
Oh I forgot to say – I put the coconut oil in solid, nuked it all together for 15 seconds, stirred, did the last 35 seconds.
Hi Katie! My husband, Kurt, and your parents were very good friends back in their New York days, and for a long time beyond. I discovered your blog by reconnecting with your mom through Facebook. l just wanted to tell you how impressed I am by all of your achievements! I’ve forwarded your link to all of my friends who I’m sure will be also be delighted by your blog, recipes, and wit! Congratulations, Katie!
Hi! Thank you so much for the sweet comment… I’ve definitely heard many great things about you (both from my parents and from our wonderful neighbors in China, the Halls). 🙂
This single serving cake in a coffe mug made in a matter of minutes is just amazing. I love having one dish to clean and my sweet tooth satisfied 🙂 you are amazing. (Plus I never knew you could microwave cake!!!)