5 Minutes or Less: Coffee Cake in a Cup

So I tried out the "Top 25 Microwaveable Dessert Recipes" and though I didn't try each and every one of them, I randomly chose (well, ok, looked at the pictures and said, "Which one looks most appealing to me?") and picked the Coffee Cake recipe! So, here's "5 Min or Less: Coffee Cake in a Mug". Enjoy!

So, basically, what I did here, was follow the recipe. I used a custard cup instead of a ramekin, I used a small red mug (about...errr...7 oz?) instead of a large mug, because I really wanted to have the top like overflowing. It lived up to my expectations, that's for sure! Anyway, so just click on the link below and you should have it. Mmm, I give it all to them. It was good. It wasn't as moist as I would like it to be, but then...coffee cake never is. :) Enjoy, though! It's pretty quick.

5 Min or Less: Coffee Cake in a Mug (and in a microwave)

5 Minutes or Less: Cocoa

I'm going to start posting something daily (every...mmm...Thursday - I'll be original!) called "5 Min or Less". Essentially. Anyway, here's the first.

Cocoa! I love cocoa. Very nice on a cold, snowy winter day in front of a crackling fire, as soon as you come in from sledding. Mmm, funny as it may seem, I miss winter. The season with all the best holidays! Christmas, Thanksgiving, Black Friday... ok, yeah, Black Friday is technically not a holiday. But you can make cocoa in summer, right? I just did.

Ingredients

• 1 tsp cocoa powder
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp coffee (optional)

Directions

1. Put in all ingredients. 
2. Pour boiling milk (or water, but milk makes the taste richer) into cup
3. Stir and
4. Enjoy!

Or, if you don't like how it's not sweet, here you go. A problem solver.

You'll Need:

• 2 tsp cocoa powder
• 4 tsp sugar (brown is better)
• 1 tsp coffee

Optional ingredients:

• 1 tsp Nestle's choc. milk
• 1 tsp coffee
• 1-2 c milk, instead of water
• 1-2 c water, instead of milk

Directions:

1. Put milk in mug
2. Put mug in microwave for 1-2 min (mine took 2:30 min but who's counting)
3. Put ingredients in
4. Stir and

Microwave Mug Cake #2

Here's another one--a different way to make it, but about the same idea.

Ingredients

• 1 pinch salt
• 1 dash vanilla extract
• 3 T milk
• 1 egg
• 3 T oil
• 3 T sugar, white
• 1/4 c flour
• 2 T cocoa powder

Directions

1. melt butter in microwave (in mug)
2. stir butter, sugars, and salt in
3. stir in egg yolk and do not use egg white!
4. add flour and cocoa powder and stir again
5. add choc. chunks (or chips)
6. stir until well-mixed
7. cook abt 45 secs in microwave. time may vary. do not overcook.
8. serve hot and

P.S. for a more coffee-like mug cake, add 1-1/2 T inst. coffee. stir until well-mixed.

Microwave Mug Cake

This is more like a brownie in a mug, but whatever you want to call it, here it is.

Ingredients

• 1/4 c flour
• 3 T sugar, white (I put in 3 1/2 T because I find it just doesn't hit the sweet spot but you do wat you want)
• 2 T cocoa powder (I use unsweetened, Kirkland baking cocoa)
• 1 egg
• 3 T milk
• 3 T oil  (I use olive oil, but it might be better to use vegetable oil, but who knows?)
• a dash of vanilla extract (I put in about 10 drops? Most likely more)
• a pinch of salt (I put in two small pinches but one generous pinch does the job well)

You don't need to add these ingredients in this order, you just need to end up with all of these ingredients mixed up.

Directions

1. Mix until combined
2. Microwave on high for abt 2 min
3. Serve, and

Notes:
When I had mixed all the ingredients, it came out as a soupy mixture.
I cooked mine for 1:30min, checked on it when 30 seconds were left and it was up against the sides but it was doughy in the middle. It looked kind of like a pool with sides. so I put it back in for 30s, and when I took it out of the microwave it closely resembled flan, with it kind of like an upside-down dome. But at least it was cooked on the top. On the top, at least. In the bottom it was a bit doughy but it didn't taste doughy when I put it in my mouth, so that's good!
Also it wasn't sweet. It was sweet-ish, but it really wasn't that much fun to eat.
So, updated:

You'll Need

• all of the ingredients and
• 4-5 T sugar, white (or sweetened to taste...MAKE SURE THE DOUGH IS SWEET. If it's not, keep adding 1/2 T sugar until it is DO NOT MICROWAVE UNTIL DOUGH IS ACTUALLY YUMMY TO EAT) 

Directions

1. Mix until combined
2. Microwave 1:30min EXACTLY
3. Should look like a "flan brownie", looking like an upside-down dome. If it doesn't look like that, that's good, too.
4. Serve and

Hopefully you'll enjoy. If you don't, can't say I don't believe it.

I don't really like it that much, either.

But maybe I'll like the second recipe better. Maybe?

P.S. to make this a nutella cake/brownie, take out the salt and vanilla and switch it with 3 T nutella or more!

Cookie in a Mug

This is the same idea as the microwave mug cakes, only it's a cookie. Mmm, love me some good cookies! And this is one of them. ;)

Ingredients

• 1 T butter
• 1 T dark brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 T granulated sugar, white
• 3 drops vanilla extract (or, a dash)
• small pinch salt, kosher
• 1 egg yolk
• scant 1/4 all purpose flour (slightly less than 1/4 flour)
• 2 T semi-sweet choc. chips (heaping)

Directions

1. melt butter in microwave
2. add sugars, vanilla, and salt
3. put in yolk, stir
4. add flour, stir
5. add choc. chips, stir
   (it should now look like cookie dough)
6. cook in microwave 40-60 seconds, and start checking for doneness at 40 seconds. do not cook past one minute, because like all other cookies, it will continue to cook in the mug until it's cooled off. if the cookie is dry and cake-like in texture, you've cooked it too long, so shorten the time the next time you make a cookie in a mug.
7. serve warm and

if you like your cookies slightly coffee-like, add 1-1/2 t inst. coffee. stir until well-mixed.

5 Quick and Easy Recipes

...including breakfast. Enjoy!

NOTE: these are not supposed to go together. That's why lunch and snack are both pizza. Don't worry, though - lunch is a more filling pizza!

- BREAKFAST: oatmeal -
ingredients: oats, hot milk, sugar, fruit

• oats
• hot milk
• sugar (opt)
• fruit (opt)

directions: put rolled oats in bowl. Put milk in microwave, warm it until it's hot. Pour it over oats until oatmeal is clumping together. Don't add more, don't add less. It shouldn't be floating in milk, it should be clumped together. If you put in sugar, put it in until it's sweet-ish. If you put in fruit, put it in now and eat up! (warning: to those of you who don't like oatmeal, you won't like this.)

- APPETIZER: yogurt parfait -
ingredients:

• yogurt
• maple syrup
• fruit
• granola

directions: put yogurt in wineglass. Put granola on. Put fruit on top of granola. Drizzle maple syrup over fruit. Eat up! (warning: this is better with granola, so do not leave it out or sub something like rolled oats over it - that's gross.)

- LUNCH: bagel pizza -
ingredients:

• bagel(s)
• tomato/pizza sauce
• cheese (preferably mozzarella)

directions: put bagel in toaster or oven until lightly toasted. Put on tomato sauce and put on cheese (I use shredded cheese because it will melt evenly over bagel, but if you use cheese sticks or slices of cheese, it may not melt evenly). Put in microwave (oven will brown your bagel even more, and your bagel may burn before cheese is melted) until cheese is melted and golden brown on top. Take out and enjoy! (warning: bagels aren't pizza dough, so you can also buy dough that comes in little circles and put pizza sauce and cheese on and then put it in the oven until either cheese is melted and golden brown or the dough is cooked and golden/lightly brown.)

- SNACK: mini pizzas -
ingredients:

• tortilla(s), large if you're making more than four or five
• tomato/pizza sauce
• cheese (preferably mozzarella)

directions: place can as close to edge of tortilla as possible without going over it. Push down - hard - on can until you have cut out a circle with the edge of the can. You can also use a glass and a knife, but a can is easier. Cut out as many circle as is fitting for you (remember, as you're cutting this out, this is just a snack, not a full on meal. Only make enough to make your hunger pangs go away). Put tortilla circles in muffin tin (mini muffin tin, not those normal-sized ones - those are too big!). Put tomato or pizza sauce on/in. Sprinkle cheese over it. It has to be grated (or, pre-grated, for your convenience), not sliced because sliced will pool at the bottom once melted and cheese sticks you can't put on the edge - the cheese should be all around the tortilla circles. Then put muffin tins in oven and wait until cheese is melted and golden brown and then take out. Slide knife underneath tortilla and remove carefully. May burn you, so be careful! Put on decorative plate, if having guests over, or just put on normal plate if it's just normal you. Serve to either guests or normal you and enjoy!

- DESSERT: cookie in a mug -
ingredients:

• 1 T butter
• 1 T dark brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 T granulated sugar, white
• 3 drops vanilla extract (or, a dash)
• small pinch salt, kosher
• 1 egg yolk
• scant 1/4 all purpose flour (slightly less than 1/4 flour)
• 2 T semi-sweet choc. chips (heaping)

directions: melt butter in microwave, add sugars, vanilla, and salt. Put in yolk, stir. Add flour, stir. add choc. chips, stir (it should now look like cookie dough. Cook in microwave 40-60 seconds, and start checking for doneness at 40 seconds (time may vary for different people's cookies). Do not cook past one minute, because like all other cookies, it will continue to cook in the mug until it's cooled off. if the cookie is dry and cake-like in texture, you've cooked it too long, so shorten the time the next time you make a cookie in a mug. Serve warm and enjoy! (note: if you like your cookies slightly coffee-like - add 1-1/2 t inst. coffee, stir until well-mixed, and then put in microwave.)
Thanks for reading and