Fancy some cake in 5 minutes?

[imastawka]

Fancy a bit of cake and don't want to wait an hour?

Make a cake in a mug - from scratch - in 5 minutes.      9 different recipes................

Just a mug and a microwave, no cleanup

 http://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/foodanddrink/9-amazing-cakes-you-can-make-in-a-mug/ss-AAiFK3d

[imastawka]

4 serves for $5 seems a bit rich though

       

[amber-eyed-girl]

Even quicker for a choccie fix was eating a block of chocolate. Took five seconds to prepare.

[lyndal1838]

Five seconds?   You are slow Amber...in my prime I could do it in 3 seconds but I am out of practice now.

[go-tazz]

The first I heard about cake in a cup was via a post on Facebook and she had experimeted with recipes as

she wanted a quick "fix" and a cake took to long to make.

Now cake manufactures have mug recipes for the ones that want that quick "fix",(at a $1 or more each).

You probably get 10 or more mug cakes to make up a standard cake so that's a $10 plus cake,

I'll stick with the chocalate bars as well,

[davidc4430]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

Five seconds?   You are slow Amber...in my prime I could do it in 3 seconds but I am out of practice now.

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i have never been able to figure out why cadburys put so much wrapping on their chocolates, surely they can come up with wrapping made of....

chocolate!

[imastawka]

           

[*tippy*toes*]

I think the one I make costs a few cents to make. Although I've never really costed it. Let me think. $1.50 for a kilo of flour. About the same for 2kg of sugar. $1 per litre of milk (I buy the dearer milk from a local dairy, so dearer for me). $2 for 250g cocoa. $2 for a litre of vegetable oil. All amounts are guesstimates as I usually always have these things on hand and it's been awhile since I stocked.Total cost $8. For that, I can probably make 50 mug cakes!

I timed myself making that one the other night. From the time I opened the cupboard to get the ingredients out to when I put the spoon in it to take the first mouthful, 6 minutes.