Student Cooking Attempt #6: 2 Minute Vegan Mug Cake

This was one of the recipes I saw online last night and wanted to try as soon as I saw it!  I’d heard of the 5 minute chocolate mug cake, but here was a vegan one and it took 3 precious minutes less!!!

I found this recipe at http://cooks-hideout.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/vegan-mug-cakes.html and altered it slightly according to what I had in my cupboard and, like the wonder I am, in an attempt to make it a bit healthier.

Here’s what I used (I used my large Starbucks mug y’all)

• 1/3 mug of flour
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 tbsp unsweetened almond milk
• 1 tbsp dried cranberries
• 3 tbsp fresh orange juice (instead of the sugar = woopa vitamins )

 

Then, the obvious step was to mix up muh mug…

It looked a bit on the dodgy lumpy side, so I added a bit more almond milk to smooooooth it down.

Then it was all systems go to pop this wee package in the microwave on high for 2 minutes!  Our flat has a 700W microwave, so…there you go.

 

After two unbearable minutes of anticipation, I removed a sponge alien from the microwave… :S  At this point I realised I’d forgotten to chop up a banana and add it to the mug as well.  Lawl.

Never one to crumble in despondency at a lack of bananage, I ran a knife around the inside of the mug and turned it upside-down, revealing this lump of cuteness…!

 

I felt so proud of myself for having indeed produced a dessert of some description, that I thought it only fair to gee it Aldi with the finishing touches

 

Breathtaking….

Basically a teaspoon of vegan butter, which melted really nicely down the sides of the warm sponge, topped with some flaked almonds and a few more cranberries

Wait for it…

 

This isn’t just a 2 minute vegan mug cake.  Oh no.  This is a delicious yet healthy, temptingly fruity albeit banana-less, warm and spongy piece of versatile beaut-ness, lovingly cooked with sensitivity in the finest Starbucks mug by a journalism student,  inhaled by said student in 4 seconds, very good, brilliant, nice, yum 2 minute vegan mug cake…

 

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