My emergency 5 minute chocolate cake

I had an emergency yesterday.

Not a serious-life-and-death emergency but a completely different kind! I was hit by a sudden craving for chocolate cake. So, what do I do?

Well, I went on over to Jessie’s blog for her 5 minute chocolate cake recipe and also checked out this recipe at Dizzy Dee’s blog. I simply must try out one of the recipes. I chose Dizzy Dee’s recipe first.

And in typical Foong-style, I messed up changed it a bit and substituted some of the ingredients and changed my mind and decided to also use Jessie’s recipe.

That’s right.

I ended up combining both recipes and sorta wing it from there. Heh.That’s what I call typical Foong-style. I always had to change recipes I found and substitute some of the ingredients. Maybe it’s part of my non-conforming gene or something. Or I was just plain lazy to refer to the recipe at every turn and depended on memory and since my memory isn’t all that good, I tend to forget some steps and somehow have replaced some ingredients and steps in my mind.

Hmmm…maybe my brain likes playing tricks on me. Or maybe I just like playing around with different ingredients in my little kitchen experiments. heheh. The Food Critic and Mr Picky should be so lucky that they have not been poisoned by any of my kitchen experiments.

Okay, okay, I know you want to know all about the 5 minute chocolate cake.

This is the result.

Looks pretty good eh? Trust me, it tastes WAY better than it looked. It is moist, rich, dense and so chocolatey, it satisfy my midnight chocolate craving at first bite.

Here’s the modified recipe:

5 Minute Chocolate Cake in a Mug

Ingredients

1 large mug

4 tbsp flour

4 tbsp soft brown sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

2 tbsp cocoa powder

2 tbsp cocoa essense

1 tsp coffee essence

4 tbsp unsweetened soya milk with 2 tbsp chocolate sauce stirred in

1 egg

3 tbsp oil

1 tbsp natural unsweetened peanut butter

5 tbsp chocolate chips

Instructions

By now it is pretty smooth already. Just make sure it is all well combined.

10. Then pour the mixture into the mug

13. It is now ready to be zapped. Just place the mug into the microwave and zap it high for 3 minutes. My microwave oven is 900w.

It is mishappen and hardly presentable in the mug. So, I did the next best thing…I cut it and took a picture.

You can actually see some of the peanut butter and some of the unmelted chocolate chips. I love it that some of the chips didn’t melt so in the end, I was biting into chocolate chips within the cake. Ahh…that is so darn satisfying.

So, my verdict…5 minute chocolate cake is the best thing ever since sliced bread simply because it takes so little time to prepare and yet has all the chocolatey richness we expect from any chocolate cake.

A note of warning though. This cake could be a tiny bit rubbery so do not overcook if your microwave has a higher wattage. Also, since some of the chocolate chips have not melted, when you bite into it, sometimes you’d find yourself biting into the chips. I really like this as it gave the cake a bit of a chocolatey crunch in the centre.

That’s what I call chocolate chip 5 minute chocolate cake!

But if you prefer it to be smoother, just reduce the amount of choc chips and use mini choc chips instead so that it will be easier to melt.

Tagged: baking, chocolate, desserts, sweet stuffs