I've also been cooking regularly! I bought two new cookbooks that I'm loving: Everything Meals on a Budget Cookbook and Anyone Can Cook. Now I've been cooking since I was 9 (give or take a couple years), so I don't really need a extremely basic cookbook like these, but I think they're great cookbooks anyway. I've done most of my meal plans using them. I plan on getting several more, but a little later. I would like to get Anyone Can Bake as well.
Speaking of baking, I had the urge to bake some kinda desert, but I don't have cookie sheets or cake pans, or anything like that, so I googled stove top dessert recipes. I stumbled across a nifty recipe I just had to try: 5-Minute Chocolate Cake! You make it in the microwave in a coffee mug. It's really yummy too. Forget those Betty Crocker Warm Delights! This has it topped for sure. It's light and fluffy, and really chocolaty! It calls for chocolate chips, but I used Dove Chocolate cut up in pieces... yuuum! Unfortunately it all fell to the bottom, but that's ok, I'll just have a chocolate heart attack at the end!
Here's the recipe so its all in one place:
- coffee mug
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
- 2 tablespoons whisked egg (1 egg is too much, 1 egg white is too eggy, 1 yolk is too dense, but 2 tbls is just )right!
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 3 tablespoons chocolate chips
- splash vanilla (or other flavoring - try peppermint or cinnamon)
Add all of the dry ingredients to the mug and mix. Add the egg and combine well. It gets pretty pasty at the point, Stir in milk and oil. Add chocolate chips and splash of vanilla. Stir well.
Microwave for 3 minutes in a 1000w oven, or 4 minutes in a 700w oven. It will start to crown over the top of the mug. Don't panic! It will collapse once the heat stops.For more fudgelike cake, omit egg. In place of chocolate chips, you can use small pieces of chocolate candy or candy bar.
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