Why is it working
- The use of a 12 ounces or more microwave safe mug ensures that the cake does not flow out of the mug and causes a mess.
- The use of 50% energy on the microwave oven ensures that the cake is wet and gentle from edges.
- If you place a few pieces of chocolates into the cake through cooking, you create a melted Fudgy center.
From time to time, he longs for a homemade cake, but not a chopping desire to turn on the oven, grease the cakes, and pull out the rack mixer to make a dough. Sometimes there is nothing else and you just have to like yourself. From time to time you just want cakes – as in the next five minutes.
This molten chocolate mug is designed for those designed in life the “need for Cake Now” moments: throw a flour, cocoa, baking powder, sugar, butter and chocolate into a mug (a 12 ounces of microwave-safety), mix) , zap in the microwave oven, and warm and gooey gets a uniform portion for the chocolate cake that devours it.
Do not turn your nose at the microwave oven to bake a cake. Cooking with microwave oven cannot feel as fashionable as a traditional oven boost to make desserts, but these small boxes can be useful if they keep (or, be honest, motivated). As discussed in our next article How do microwaves workThe devices operate with electromagnetic radiation by shooting at food. These waves effectively target the food molecules of the food and mix them at a speed to result in sufficient friction to produce heat and evaporate water.
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The problem is that the waves cannot affect much deeper than about one to two inches in the food. In fact, microwave ovens find food in an unpredictable pattern, so some parts cook faster than others. Microwave ovens are used to promote cooking to some extent, but another method is to promote smooth cooking if they are only cooked in smaller parts to allow the heat to penetrate.
This warm and confused chocolate cake with a melted center is just a dessert that can be perfectly applied to the microwave oven. You don't need the benefits of the oven cake: you should not be browned or crisp at the edges, it does not mean leaking from a frying pan and is on perfect slices. It was intended to enjoy the spoon warmly as a mini puffle or a chocolate cake baked in a oven. It will not be just as perfect for fluffy, gentle crumb as a cake, wet, plush and melted in the oven, which the microwave oven can do very well.
As the cake cooks in the microwave oven, bubbles and bloating as it would be in the oven, and as it starts setting up (still Jiggi), it happened – in just two minutes. For this molten center fudgy version, keeps the cake with a 50% power consumption, wet and gently, and creates a few chocolates in the part of the Ooey -Gooey center.
It is so easy to prepare this cake that you can even double the recipe and make two mugs microwave ovens for a fast, warm à la minute dessert. Download a piece of whipped cream or a spoonful of ice cream. It may be that the favorite part of the recipe is that there is almost no need for equipment to prepare – just a small bowl and a mug. It is easy to make and easier to clean, so you can focus on each chocolate bite.
A 5 minute molten chocolate mug cake that is actually fine
Cooking method
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2 tablespoon (16 g) universal flour
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2 tablespoon (25 g) sugar
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4 teaspoon Dutch processed cocoa powder
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1/4 teaspoon baking powder
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1/8 teaspoon Diamond crystal kosher salt; Use a pinch for table salt
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1 ounce (28 g) milk or chocolate Divided into approximately 1 -inch pieces or chocolate chips (see notes)
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2 tablespoon (28 g) Salted butter, Cut into 4 pieces
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1 large egg, slightly beaten
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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In a small bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add a piece of chocolate to a 12 -ounce mug with butter. Microwave butter and chocolate pieces with 50% energy, mixed every 30 seconds until melted for 1-2 minutes. (See comments on the microwave power below.)
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Add a mixture of flour, eggs and vanillas and mix thoroughly with a fork until smooth and combined (definitely scrape the heel of the mug).
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Microwave cake dough with 50% power until the dough size increased, 50-70 seconds.
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Press the remaining chocolate pieces into the center of the cake until the chocolate pieces rinse the top of the cake. Microwave cake with 50% power while the cake is solid, but the top is only wet and palpable for 15-30 seconds (the cake can rise above the edge of the mug but cannot be overflowed). Allow the cake to rest for 2 minutes. Serves.
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Special equipment
12 ounces of microwave safe mug, microwave oven
Note
This recipe was developed in a full -size 1000 -watt microwave. If the microwave oven has a power of less than 1000 watts, it must increase or reduce cooking times to reach visual signals. I suggest you describe the cooking time after you have dialed it to the given microwave.
I prefer the bar chocolate (milk, dark or bitter), because the chocolate chipset is harder to insert into the cake to form the molten center, but the chocolate chips is done in a pinch.
Make-Head and Storage
The mug cake is best enjoyed immediately.