One-Minute Microwave Chocolate Cake
(from deepfishy’s recipe box)
Please do test different times out for your own microwave – there’s a scale that goes something like:
cake goop → self-saucing pudding → delicious cake! → heavy, not-so-good cake → stale, crunchy “cake” → dear lord what have we done?
(The last three are pretty much guaranteed to leave you unhappy.)
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 1 minutes
Serves 2 people
Categories: cake, chocolate, microwave
Ingredients
- 4 tbs flour (doesn't matter what kind - I use self-raising)
- 4 tbs sugar
- 2 tbs cocoa (the real stuff, not hot chocolate mix)
- 1 egg
- 3 tbs milk
- 3 tbs oil (I used walnut oil cos I had it - think about flavours that won't be nasty in chocolate cake, and use that)
- dash of vanilla essence
Directions
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Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
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Combine wet ingredients in another bowl. Beat vigorously until egg is mixed in with everything else.
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Pour wet ingredients into dry, mix gently until fully combined (you don’t want any dry clumps, but you don’t want to over-stir it – that, I theorise, forms too many gluten strands and leads to a rubbery texture).
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Divide mixture between two individual-sized souffle dishes/ramekins (about 4 inches wide?). Or whatever you have, ideally something wider than it’s tall (more surface area).
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Cook on high for 1 minute in the microwave. It will puff up like a disturbing alien life-form. This is completely normal. (The first couple of times, I recommend you take advantage of the two servings to test out different times. 45 seconds gives me a sort of self-saucing pudding, 2 minutes is nasty. Your microwave will undoubtedly vary.)
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Eat!