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The Best 5 Minute Double Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe
A moist, gooey and quick double chocolate mug cake recipe ready in no more than 5 minutes. Grab your favourite cup, mix in the ingredients, microwave and you’ve got the best luscious single serving dessert EVER!
Get ready everyone, this double chocolate mug cake is going to become your new obsession (don’t say I didn’t warn you!).
It’s a 5-minute microwave mug cake recipe that will give you a soft, gooey and moist double chocolate cake that tastes amazing! The double chocolate flavour is created using cocoa powder and of course lots of chocolate chips.
Mug cakes are great for when you want a quick snack fast, you can treat yourself to this dessert pretty much any time of the day. It makes a great cheeky breakfast, a quick afternoon treat and even an indulgent midnight snack. Plus, you can make so many different mug cake flavours like this Lotus Biscoff mug cake or Oreo mug cake – Yum!
Why You’ll Like This Recipe
Hardly Any Washing Up: There’s no need to use mixing bowls, wooden spoons, baking tins or weighing scales. All you need is your favourite mug and a fork or mini whisk.
Ready In 5 Minutes: Mug cake recipes are popular because they take so quick to prepare and bake! I’m not joking when I say this chocolate cake takes over a minute in the microwave and few more minutes to prep.
The Best Last-Minute Dessert: This type of cake recipe is the perfect solution for last minute dessert problems. It’s also great for kids too!
Basic Ingredients: There’s no crazy ingredients added to this recipe, most of the ingredients you’re likely to have at home already. The wildest ingredient used would probably be cocoa powder but that goes to show how basic the ingredients are.
The Texture: This double chocolate mug cake is the best ever. It’s an indulgent, moist and addictive chocolate mug cake that’s so quick to make.
Watch How To Make This No Egg Double Chocolate Mug Cake
Recipe Ingredients
Below are the few ingredients needed to make this easy egg free double chocolate mug cake, full instructions are on the recipe card at the bottom with a video.
- Plain Flour: I used plain flour also called all-purpose flour.
- Cocoa Powder: I used a good quality dark and rich cocoa powder for an indulgent and luscious double chocolate mug cake. You can get it here on Amazon, it’s my favourite cocoa powder ever and I use it a lot in my bakes. Using a dark and rich cocoa powder will give you more of an intense chocolatey flavour.
- Sugar: I used white granulated sugar to make this cake but you can also use brown sugar. Brown sugar will help give you a moist cake texture. I sometimes mix the two but generally I use whatever I have at the time.
- Baking Powder: This gives the mug cakes a boost in the microwave when baking, it helps the cake to rise. It’s important not to add too much, only a tiny amount is added to the cake to prevent the cake overflowing.
- Milk: Whole dairy milk is what I used, the fat content helps create a moist and soft cake. To make this recipe vegan you can use almond milk, coconut milk or any other vegan alternatives.
- Vegetable Oil: A tablespoon of oil is added to the cake for extra moistness, use any neutral flavoured oil. You can also use melted butter if you like. But that’s an extra step, you’ll have to melt the butter seperatly.
- Vanilla Extract: Adding vanilla extract is optional but it does add extra flavour and makes this cake even more indulgent. But if you don’t have vanilla at home, it’s okay to leave it out, it’s not a must for this recipe.
- Chocolate Chips: Use any type of chocolate chips you like, I used milk chocolate. Add a range of flavours for a triple chocolate mug cake recipe.
How To Make A Quick, Easy & Moist Double Chocolate Mug Cake
Below is a step-by-step guide on how to make a no egg double chocolate microwave mug cake. Full instructions are on the recipe card at the bottom with a video too.
Step One: