5-minute Chocolate Nutella Cake

While jumping from work to Facebook to Twitter yesterday, I saw this tweet from Baker Street saying "Chocolate Buttermilk Pound Cake" Immediately, my craving for chocolate cake hit me!

Okay, with the things I am doing, I cannot spend that much time in the kitchen, instead, I searched the internet for those 'mug' cakes.  You see, the internet is my savior in times like this.

There are so many versions out there, so many that I chose those with stories behind them so I would know what they think about it.  After I have chosen one recipe, I hit the kitchen and made myself this chocolate mug cake.  True to the writer's word, I was done in less than 5 minutes.


Looks yummy, right?  Don't be deceived.  this mug cake turned out to be rubbery and hard, more so when it cooled down a bit.  Have you tried reheating a piece of bread in a microwave for too long? That's how it turned out.  Not good. 

I was disappointed of course, but then again, I really want some chocolate cake!

Off to the kitchen again and tweaked the recipe remembering the times when I bake.  What could have gone wrong with that recipe?  I remember making a one-minute peanut butter cake before so I revisited that post and found my answer!  Baking powder and shorter cooking time.

Here's how I did it in 5 minutes.

Chocolate Nutella Cake


Ingredients
3 Tbps all purpose flour
3 Tbsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 Tbsp cocoa powder, unsweetened
1 egg
1 Tbsp nutella
3 Tbsp milk
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 Tbsp chocolate chip

Instead of mixing everything directly in the mug (which most of the recipes in the internet says), I mixed the ingredients in a separate bowl.  This is not rocket science, just mix everything up until moistened.

Transfer to a mug, in my case, I used a ceramic bowl with flat bottom.

Pop it in the microwave, set to high and cook for 1 minute 30 seconds.



Now this is what I am looking for! Dense, moist and simply delicious.


One big bite for me, please?


This is for quick eats, oven baked is still better but this will do ",) for now...



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Comments

  1. Galing dudut! will try this. it sure beats all that cleaning up after baking =)

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  2. WOW! I'd love to try this too! Looks so moist... I want a big bite too :D

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  3. You got that delicious beauty done in under 2 minutes? Wow...way to go!

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  4. Great! I am definitely going to try this, thanks for the recipe :)

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  5. I once got to watch an episode of Rachael Ray featuring a woman who loves microwave mug cakes, she was able to make a lot of recipes. Well, baking is something I only hope I can do, but since wala kaming oven, siguro bili na lang muna ako sa pastry shops. Haha.

    Hopping from Food Trip Friday.

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  6. Just so you know, we make this several times a week now. Gonna try it tonight with peanut butter instead of Nutella, since we ran out of Nutella.

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    1. thanks Amy! i'm glad you and your family are enjoying the simplicity of this cake :)

      and thanks also for letting me know, i appreciate it very much!

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  7. My son wanted a Nutella cake for his bday. What I did was begged the local cake shop for a chocolate base and spread nutella on top. Oh! If only I found this earlier, this would have saved me time and I can do it over and over... But i'll try this anyway. Thank you very much. (jean)

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  8. This is a great post thanks for sharing it

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