Mug cakes - what where why and how

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OK so as the title suggests mugs cakes

What are these little heavenly things?
Where have I been?
Why have I only just discovered them?
How had it taken me so long to discover them!?!?!

Basically was looking for a recipe to make a small cake because I don't fancy baking a cake or a batch of cupcakes at 10pm on a Sunday night. Put "small cake recipe" into Google and it gives me the recipe for chocolate mug cakes. My initial reaction was, cooking a cake in a microwave? NO! it can't be done! That's wrong.

But because I wanted cake, I tried it, and OMG it's bloody brilliant!!!!

I will add though, its a bit drier than I expected, maybe cooked it for too long?

I make them using mashed banana, flour, baking powder and a splash of milk. Then you can add cocoa, peanut butter, chocolate chips, nuts etc as you like.

Depends on the size of the mug/mixture but I usually start for a minute and then stop every 15 secs to see if it's cooked.

My recipe has no eggs so it doesn't matter if it's not perfectly cooked all the way through so better to cook it for less time rather than more.

I have a whole mug cakes book.. genuine happiness in creating a sweet treat in 5 minutes! My favourite is chocolate fondant cake so fudgey!!

My daughter got me on to these, she makes a choc chip and nutella one, so gooey in the middle omg its lovely

Ooh, these sound good. If anyone fancies posting their recipes, I wouldn't complain!

Don't forget to add a scoop of icecream to your mug cake while it's fresh and hot from the microwave.

That way you have warm gooey cake with cold, melty icecream mmmmm

Recipe books exist @GoatsDoRome!?!?! Right I'm off to get myself one!

@KingaRoo @ghostmous3 and @TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 they all sound delicious!!! And put mine to shame.

@Dieu I used this one www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/microwave-mug-cake%3famp
I did 1 minute 30 in the microwave and it was a bit dry, if you try it follow kingas advice with the 15 seconds.