Chocolate Mug Cake is a yummy & delicious quick cake made in mug with the ingredients that is easily available in your pantry. Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe is eggless and can be made with wheat flour or all-purpose flour (maida) or with any flour literally. Chocolate Mug Cake is the quickest to make of all cakes and very tasty that family will come for more. Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe is explained in this post with step by step pictures & video.
Chocolate Mug Cake meets your sudden cake or sweet cravings and can be had anytime! Chocolate Mug Cake recipe is one good recipe for baking beginners!
About Chocolate Mug Cake
Who will not say no to chocolate? This Chocolate Mug ake Recipe is too good and is a must try and can be made often too as it is a no guilt mug cake. This Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe will not let you down as it is perfected with more than 50 mugs of the wonder! And the beauty is the craving will never end for this yummiest, moist Chocolate Mug Cake!
Why Chocolate Mug Cake?
Chocolate Cake is favourite for many and to make it often requires time, effort and lot of ingredients. Chocolate Mug Cake is the solution to all – as it can be made real quick, effortless and with lesser ingredients.
Chocolate Mug Cake is my kids favourite, so I keep making it often and have experimented lot of variations with ingredients, appliances and mugs!
Chocolate Mug Cake – Oven, Microwave and Stove Top Version
- Microwave – With Microwave, it takes less than 10 minutes from scratch to end to prepare the cake. It is quickest method but I always opt for oven method as I don’t own a microwave considering the health factors.
- Oven – OTG / oven needs preheating time of 10 minutes while we can get the flour blend ready and baking time of 15-20 minutes.
- Stove top steaming : This works well too and is perfect for those who don’t own any oven but want to try mug cake recipes.
Chocolate Mug Cake – Maida & Wheat Flour Versions
Chocolate Mug Cake is generally made with All Purpose Flour or maida. Since we started making it almost every week, I thought of minor healthy twist and tried quiet a number of iterations to get the perfect Wheat Flour Chocolate Mug Cake – the kids will not be able to notice the difference in the cake but can – in my smile!
Chocolate Cake Ingredients
- Flour: You can use either maida (all-purpose flour) or wheat flour for this recipe. Refer to the respective heading for accurate measurements. Flour can be either homemade or store-bought.
- Coco Powder: I have used Hershey’s coco powder and chocolate shavings / choco chips for the extra choclatey taste! However it is not mandatory to add shavings if you do not have it.
- Sugar: Sugar does the magic with coco powder – Use regular granulated sugar / fine sugar for this recipe. Use cane sugar if you are diet conscious, however you might notice a slight change in the taste.
- Rising Agent & Flavours: I have used Baking Soda as rising agent and vanilla essence for flavours. Add odourless cooking oil – refined sunflower or refined rice bran oil which aids in getting evenly cooked moisty cake. Gingelly / Groundnut / Coconut oil may overpower the cake – hence avoid them.
- Milk: Toned / full cream all sorts of milk will work for this recipe. For vegan option, you can replace with Badam / Almond milk or soy milk but I have not tried with them.
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Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Dry mix:
- 4 tbsp wheat flour
- 4 tbsp cane sugar
- 2 tbsp coco powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Wet mix:
- 4 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
- To a mixing bowl – add wheat flour, cane sugar, coco powder.
- Add baking soda to it. Mix well using a whisk.
- Add milk and oil to it.
- Add vanilla essence to it. Whisk well so that there are no lumps.
- The batter should be smooth and creamy. Take a oven safe mug, Transfer batter to oven safe mug.
- Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 20 mins. Insert a toothpick and check – if it comes out clean then the cake is done. If its sticky then baking for few more mins.
- Serve Chocolate Mug Cake warm!
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Notes
- The mug is quite huge one and so both the kids shared the cake. Make sure to use only oven safe mugs.
- If your mug is small then pour in 2 mugs and bake. The batter rises well so choose a mug accordingly.
- The timing may vary so check after 15 mins then proceed accordingly.
- I have given timing for oven and not microwave.
- The cake is mildly sweet, if you prefer you can increase sweetness. I used wheat flour and cane sugar but you can replace it with white flour and regular sugar itself.
- You can add a 1tbso of choco chips for a more richer version.
How to make Chocolate Mug Cake
- To a mixing bowl – add wheat flour, cane sugar, coco powder.
- Add baking soda to it. Mix well using a whisk.
- Add milk and oil to it.
- Add vanilla essence to it. Whisk well so that there are no lumps.
- The batter should be smooth and creamy. Take a oven safe mug, Transfer batter to oven safe mug.
- Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 20 mins.Insert a toothpick and check – if it comes out clean then the cake is done. If its sticky then baking for few more mins.
Serve it warm with chocolate syrup or dig in as such as we did.
Chocolate Mug Cake
I am obsessed with this chocolate cake recipe. I always love mug cake recipes,easy to satisfy your chocolate cravings instantly, and the portion is small too. This cake uses both wheat flour and maida, you can replace this recipe with fully maida or fully wheat flour too.
I have made this cake so many times whenever we crave for some chocolaty dessert.Chill the cake,drizzle some chocolate syrup and you are in for a heaven experience I can assure.Mittu is fond of this cake so I make it often these days atleast once in 2 weeks.This is so easy to put together just one bowl add all the ingredients mix and bake..yes as easy as that! This is another cake recipe that tolerated all my experimentations.
Ingredients
Maida – 2 tbsp
Wheat Flour – 1 tbsp
Coco powder – 2 tbsp
Granulated Sugar – 4 tbsp
Cooking oil – 1 tbsp
Milk – 5 tbsp(Boiled and cooled)
Dark Chocolate Shavings – 1 tbsp(optional)
Vanilla Essence – 1/4 tsp
Baking Soda – 1/4 tsp
How to make Chocolate Mug Cake
- in a mixing bowl,take maida then add wheat flour.Add coco powder.
- Add sugar and baking soda.
- Now mix well with a whisk.Then add cooking oil.
- Add milk,then vanilla essence.
- Whisk it well,keep whisk until sugar is dissolved completely.Then add chocolate shavings.
- Mix once.Preheat oven at 180 deg C for 10mins.While the oven preheats,take your oven safe mugs, pour the batter into it.
- Bake at 180 deg C for 15-18mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean or with slight crumbs.
Cool down, drizzle chocolate syrup and serve with sprinklers.
Expert Tips
- Make sure to use only oven safe mugs – else the mug will break during baking. Oven Safe mugs are available at Home Centre, @home, Currimbhoys, PoppatJamals& online in Amazon &Flipkart
- If your mug is small then pour in 2 mugs and bake.The batter rises well so choose a mug accordingly.
- You can prepare the mix individually in mugs or in a mixing bowl & transfer to mugs based on the quantity you are planning to make.
- Do not double the ingredients and add it in the same mug – the bottom will not get cooked. Alternatively you can double/triple measures in a bowl and then transfer to mugs.
- The cake is mildly sweet, if you prefer you can increase sweetness.
- Add odourless cooking oil, else oil will overpower with smell & taste.
- Do not rest the batter. Just mix, pour and bake it as soon as it’s mixed.
- OTG / Oven version:The timing may vary with oven, so check after 15 mins then proceed accordingly.
Variations
Apart from wheat, OTG, microwave variations you can try these variations of Chocolate Mug Cake.
- You can add a 1tbsp of choco chips with the blend for a more chocolaty version.
- You can top the Chocolate Mug cake with choco syrup, choco chips& colourful sprinklers
- You can add any essence of your choice
- You can try this recipe with ragi too!
- You can try this with eggs too – mix half portion of the egg (after whisking) for 1 mug of cake.
Serving & Storage Suggestions
Chocolate Mug Cake tastes best when warm, hot & cold too! You can consume it even next day after refrigerating it!
Serve it as such or with vanilla ice cream or add chocolate sauce / chips as topping. This is the best instant cake for serving guests in individual portions. You can surprise your guests with this instant cake.
FAQs
1.What is Chocolate Mug Cake?
Chocolate Mug Cake is a yummy & delicious quick cake made by blending flour with coco powder, sugar & milk and baking it. Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe is eggless and can be made with wheat flour or all-purpose flour (maida) with oven and instantly with microwave.What is Chocolate Mug Cake?
2.How do you make Chocolate Mug Cake?
Blend the prescribed quantity of maida, coco powde, sugar and baking soda
Add oil, milk, essence and whisk well till sugar dissolves completely
Preheat oven and in the meantime transfer the blend to individual mugs
Bake at 180 deg for 20 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean or with slight crumbs.
Cool down, drizzle chocolate syrup and serve with sprinklers.
3.Can I use the regular tea mug for making Chocolate Mug Cake?
USE OVEN SAFE MUGS ONLY – Regular coffee mugs gets broken while breaking!
4.Can I skip Chocolate shavings, choco chips?
Yes very well – it is added for making the Chocolate Mug Cake more chocolatier and not mandatory!
Unknown
Hi Sharmila ji,
How is your younger son who born on the same month with my daughter(sep).Can you please post aloo stuffed idly.
Thanks,
Vijay(BNGLR)
Alboni - Boni's Healthy Twists
Fantastic mug cake !!!
Manju
Hi Sharmilee
Whether mugs can be used in convection mode?
SHARMILEE J
Oven safe mugs can be used
Unknown
Great for children and adults tooo
geetika thareja
Can you please suggest which oven do you use?
saranya ravindran
Thnq came out well… kiddo juz mad with it
Radhika Murugavel
Wonderful sharmi!! Where did you get those sprinklers??
Sharmilee J
Hubby got it from the US.
Durga
Hi Sharmi, can we bake it in a small cake tin and also can we use curd like the regular eggless sponge cake instead of milk?
Thanks a lot and i am a big fan!!
Sharmilee J
Yes you can bake in tin too but double or triple the ingredients or choose a smaller tin accordingly.Not sure of curd replacement.
Sharmi
Hi! It was a perfect cake for my LO!!! Thanks!!!