Cooking For Two

Have a craving for chocolate? Here’s the answer! It’s so simple you’ll be amazed. All you need is a coffee mug, a few ingredients and a microwave and you have hot, steamy, gooey chocolate bliss in about 5 minutes. The best part? It’s not as bad for you as you think!

Ingredients:

1 8oz microwave safe coffee mug
4 tbs white whole wheat flour
4 tbs white sugar (or brown sugar but omit the vanilla)
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 tbs mini chocolate chips
1 tbs ground flax seed
3 tbs boiling water
4 tbs milk
1 tsp oil
1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Mix the flax meal and boiling water and set aside. Mix all dry ingredients well in the mug, add chocolate chips and mix well. Add flax meal mixture and liquid ingredients to dry ingredients in mug. Mix well. Microwave on high for 2.5 - 3 minutes. Cake is done when it stops rising in the mug. Tip out onto a plate (yep, it falls right out) and enjoy! This is perfect for two people with a scoop of ice cream, or one person, with a hearty appetite.

Now this will rise and may even overflow. If it spills over the sides of the mug you used too much baking powder, if it doesn’t rise very much you used too little.

This recipe was adapted from one I found elsewhere. It called for an egg, but I found a whole egg in one mug was too much egg. So I tweaked it and used flax as a binder and the baking powder as a leavening agent.

The other day I was reading a post on a cooking blog I recently discovered. On her site Ari had a recipe for Marble Molasses Pound Cake from a cookbook she had. It sounded divine! And of course, me being me, I had to experiment with it. Unfortunately, or should I say, fortunately, it didn’t quite work out as planned. To begin with, I had no eggs… Read the rest of this entry »