I just made five

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I just made five

I just made five 5-minute mug cakes for my family and me from the volume 37, number 9, September 2009 Cricket. It was so super very really good. It kind of tasted like a lava cake. Have you ever had a lava cake? It's amazing. It's like a little dome of chocolate cake with a rich chocolate filling. It's so good, and so bad for you;) Anyway, my mug cakes were spongy, and I used only the egg whites, and don't be shy with the vanilla extract.

Peacing out for now to work on my story unless I'm kicked off the computer,]

Hannah ☺☻ 

 

I made one of those last year--yum!

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submitted by Hannah ☺☻, age 14, Georgia
(January 5, 2011 - 8:43 pm)

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I've made so many of those, yeah, they're REALLY good. :) I always put about two teaspoons of vanilla extract in. XD Do your chocolate chips sink to the bottom? Mine always do, rather annoying, really.

submitted by Lucy (EW), age 13 3/4, The Sky (With D
(January 6, 2011 - 10:51 am)

I've made them.  I mean, when you saw that recipe in the magazine, how could you not want to make it?  I love the taste, but the texture kinda threw me off.  I'm not a fan of the spongey-ness.  It was almost rubbery..... but they sure do taste good. But, Hannah, that was very sweet.  I hope your family appreciated your grueling [five minutes of] hard work! :) 

submitted by R~D~, age 14, WA
(January 8, 2011 - 6:56 pm)

Mine didn't come out rubbery, if anything, they always come out dry. We're at high altitude, so I always have to put a little extra flour in, but I always put in too much. ;)

submitted by Kaulitz (EW), age 13 3/4, Humanoid City
(January 9, 2011 - 8:22 pm)

@Lucy (EW): My chocolate chips did sink to the bottom. My Mama said that they were probably supposed to sink to the bottom, melt, and become a sort of icing if you were to flip the cake out of the mug (which we didn't;))

Peacing out for now,

Hannah ☺☻

submitted by Hannah ☺☻, age 14, The Moonlit Gar
(January 14, 2011 - 6:45 pm)

Those sound good! Is the recipe somewhere on the site? (I started subscribing in January 2010, so I don't have the recipe.) 

 

I don't think the recipe is on the site, Olive. Sorry.

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submitted by Olive
(January 8, 2011 - 7:10 pm)

Ooh, I've made those too! They were quite good, except that (like Olive) the chocolate chips fell to the bottom and some of them burned. But the cake part was yummy!

submitted by Brynne
(January 8, 2011 - 9:26 pm)

I helped EW make those at her birthday party last year.  They were soooooo good.

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(January 9, 2011 - 12:13 am)

Ooh!  I've never made those, but they sound so good!  But I don't think I could make one, because arn't they made in a mincrowave?  My family doesn't have a microwave, so if that was what you made, then I can't make it...  Or I could put it in the oven...  Though I'm not sure if it is the microwave one.  *fails at checking*  I can't find the Sept. from 2009...  Well, when I find it I'll make it, and if it's cooked in the microwave I can use the oven instead...  :)

 

Yes, the recipe is for a microwave oven. I'm not sure how to adapt it for a regular oven. For one thing, you'll need an ovenproof container, not just an average mug.

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submitted by Meadow, age 12, Deep In The Fol
(January 9, 2011 - 4:22 pm)

Ooh, mug cakes are good!! So are lava cakes (I call them molten cakes, though). There was this one time I made a mug cake from a different magazine and it turned out weird.....it made my stomach queasy after eating it.

submitted by MJ, age 14
(January 10, 2011 - 12:17 pm)

Last year I made a Mug Cake but I must've done something wrong because mine was GROSS but my sister's was really good. Oh well.

submitted by Phillis :)
(January 22, 2011 - 6:31 pm)