Alunny
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By now everyone's tried microwave mug cakes.....but I put a little spin on mine.....
First I mix mine in a bowl. I know you're not supposed to but I find that it's easier to really get all the mix mixed. I also use a whisk to break up all the dry ingredients and that makes a huge difference too. Here's my favourite recipe I have so far, which is a lot of tweaking and combining of other peoples tips etc...
For one big cake or 2 nice mug sized ones (this recipe expands like crazy, double it for 3 that go over the rim too)...
Ingredients
4 tbs self raising flour
2 tbs sugar (regular)
2 tbs cocoa
1 egg
3 tbs milk
3 tbs melted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
Dump everything into a bowl or mug and stirr with a whisk, even if you have to have someone hold it so you can twirl the whisk and sort of bob it in the batter...you want it to become smooth!
Microwave for 2 or so minutes. When you pull it out stick a knife in and travel around all the sides and if there's still wet batter put it back in for another minute or two...sometimes it just needs more time.
At the end I like to tip mine into a bowl and put some icecream around the outside and some fudge... want to make the fudge?
Fudge recipe
2 tbs icing sugar (pure icing sugar, not icing sugar mixture)
1 tbs flour
1 tbs cocoa
add milk until it's the thickness you like and then drizzle over the cake/icecream.
This mix also works with Milo...but you have to remove 1 spoon of sugar, and add 2 more spoons of Milo. Or 10. Honestly it's up to you. If you want to use Milo though, I would use it for the fudge before I used it for the cake, there's just something missing from the cake when it's Milo IMO!
First I mix mine in a bowl. I know you're not supposed to but I find that it's easier to really get all the mix mixed. I also use a whisk to break up all the dry ingredients and that makes a huge difference too. Here's my favourite recipe I have so far, which is a lot of tweaking and combining of other peoples tips etc...
For one big cake or 2 nice mug sized ones (this recipe expands like crazy, double it for 3 that go over the rim too)...
Ingredients
4 tbs self raising flour
2 tbs sugar (regular)
2 tbs cocoa
1 egg
3 tbs milk
3 tbs melted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
Dump everything into a bowl or mug and stirr with a whisk, even if you have to have someone hold it so you can twirl the whisk and sort of bob it in the batter...you want it to become smooth!
Microwave for 2 or so minutes. When you pull it out stick a knife in and travel around all the sides and if there's still wet batter put it back in for another minute or two...sometimes it just needs more time.
At the end I like to tip mine into a bowl and put some icecream around the outside and some fudge... want to make the fudge?
Fudge recipe
2 tbs icing sugar (pure icing sugar, not icing sugar mixture)
1 tbs flour
1 tbs cocoa
add milk until it's the thickness you like and then drizzle over the cake/icecream.
This mix also works with Milo...but you have to remove 1 spoon of sugar, and add 2 more spoons of Milo. Or 10. Honestly it's up to you. If you want to use Milo though, I would use it for the fudge before I used it for the cake, there's just something missing from the cake when it's Milo IMO!
. Also pure butter is good for you, it's not a bad fat at all 
. Oh and don't skip it and use margarine or oil because I did try that and it was really different. Neither tasted right and one lost all texture and became like a pancake slab 
.
