Healthy Mug Cake Recipe - The Big Man's World ® (2024)

FAQs

Why did my mug cake turn out rubbery? ›

The cake can turn out rubbery for a couple of reasons: The baking powder was old/inactive: This means that the cake won't rise when cooked. The cake batter was overmixed: The more you mix cake batter the denser and more rubbery it'll become.

Mug cakes are perfectly safe to eat as long as long as you cook them long enough that the egg is fully cooked!

Eggs tend to make mug cakes have a bit of a rubbery texture, so bye-bye eggs and hello tender, fluffy cake. As a bonus, it's now vegetarian and can easily be made vegan too. I developed this recipe from wacky cake, a cake that has no eggs in it. I kept it pretty similar but switched out the water for milk.

It's easy to see why—most classic cake recipes call for two or three eggs and serve at least 10 people. So for a single-serving mug cake, just skip the egg; a whole egg will overpower the small amount of batter (and it's pretty tough to divide an egg in quarters).

The small size of the treat, particularly the mug you make it in, may limit your ability to properly mix your ingredients together. A regular whisk, for instance, is too big to reach into the space where the wall meets the base, so you might end up with clumps of unmixed dry ingredients at the bottom.

If you purposely or accidentally used baking soda instead of baking powder without making any changes to your recipe, you'll definitely end up with a bitter taste. Remember, baking soda is an alkaline, or base, ingredient that naturally has a bitter taste. Baking powder is a multi-ingredient leavener.

Let's make this simple: No. Eating uncooked dough or batter can make you severely sick. The primary risk comes from flour.

Remember that baking soda is 3-4 times stronger than baking powder, so you'll need a lot more baking powder to get the same leavening action. As a general rule, triple the amount of baking powder for the amount of baking soda called for in a recipe. For example, 1 teaspoon baking soda = 3 teaspoons baking powder.

An ideal daily intake of calories varies depending on age, metabolism and levels of physical activity, among other things. Generally, the recommended daily calorie intake is 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men.

How much fat is in a mug cake? ›

Nutrition Facts For One Chocolate Mug Cake: Calories: 180 with oil, or 124 without. Fat: 8g with oil, or 1.5g without.

Mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large microwave-safe mug; stir in milk, canola oil, water, and vanilla extract. Cook in the microwave until cake is done in the middle, about 1 minute 45 seconds.

When overcooked, a cake will come out hard and dry, and when undercooked, it has a gummy and dense texture. If you don't know how to tell when your cake is just cooked right, then baking will become a very tedious and unrewarding task.

Overmixing the batter can increase gluten, to a dense and sticky texture. Mix the ingredients until simply combined and keep away from excessive stirring. This guarantees a soft texture and prevents stickiness on the top.

undercooked cake can and do make peolpe sick. reason being that it is not well cooked and the mixture of the raw ingredient can be very harmful to the body.