Single Serving // Red Velvet Mug Cake

Red Velvet Cake is such a lovely invention. I personally love cream cheese frosting on just about anything so this is an excuse to make some. Can you believe this cake is made in a mug and looks like that? It is a tad crazy. You may think to yourself that this cake is not very good (because it is made in a mug) but it seriously is absolutely incredible. This cake seriously tastes like quality red velvet cake and takes about 10 minutes to make.

CAKE INGREDIENTS • 4 tbsp. Flour • 4 1/2 tbsp. Sugar • 1/8 tsp. baking powder • 1 1/2 tbsp. Cocoa Powder • 3 tbsp. Oil • 3 tbsp. Buttermilk • 1 Egg • 1/2 tsp. Red Food Coloring

FROSTING INGREDIENTS • 2 tbsp. Cream Cheese • 2 tbsp. Butter • 1/2 cup Sugar

OTHER SUPPLIES • Large Mug. (cake rises) • Measuring Spoons • Spoon or Whisk • Microwave

Mix all the ingredients for the cake in a mug (Ingredients above). Make sure to add only about 1/8 tsp. of baking powder because the more you add, the more the cake will rise which could result in a messy microwave.

Pop the mixture into the microwave for about 1 minute and 30 seconds. I added an additional 15 seconds because I couldn't tell if it was soupy at the bottom. I'm sure it wasn't but I zapped it a bit more just in case. Now it is time for the frosting.

For the frosting simply mix all the ingredients in a bowl. You can use a mixer on high to make it more fluffy but I decided not to because the mixer was dirty :(

Yummy! I personally loved this cake. It was so simple and fun to make. I'm sure you could mass produce these for a birthday party or a get together. Thanks so much for stopping in.

"Single Serving" Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie

Hello Lovelies! Here is another "Single Serving" recipe for you. This one is seriously yummy. If you love homemade chocolate chip cookies this is a recipe for you. It is so simple and easy to make! Lets get started, shall we.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED • 1 tbsp. softened butter • 1 tbsp. sugar • 1 tbsp. brown sugar • Dash of Vanilla • Pinch of Salt • 1 Egg Yolk • 1/4 cup flour • 2 tbsp. Chocolate Chips

OTHER SUPPLIES NEEDED • 12oz. Mug • Measuring Spoons • Spoon or Whisk • Microwave

Start by adding the sugars, butter, vanilla and egg yolk to the mug. Mix all the ingredients into a mug as shown below.

Next add the flour, salt and chocolate chips to the previous mix. Slowly fold the flour and chocolate into the mixture. You should receive a final result as show above. It is essentially a cookie dough consistency. Microwave this mixture for about 45 seconds. I made mistake and microwaved mine for 1 minute. It was a bit dry and I'm 97% sure that was the reason why. It tasted incredible though.

xoxo drew

Single Servings :: Brownie in a Mug

Brownies are definitely in my top 3 favorite sweets. I personally don't like cake very much (not sure why). I tend to resort to brownies because they are dense and quite lovely! I have ran across many single serving "microwave" recipes and I can say that I love them. I have tried a couple in the past few months but I finally decided to take photos and post on behalf of the amazing and simple recipes. These photos look pretty bad due to the fact that they were taken at midnight (this was a midnight snack) in my friends kitchen with minimal lighting. You may also noticed I painted my nails pink zebra (hah, those are my friends hands). That is not the point though, these simple mug brownies are definitely the point!

INGREDIENTS NEEDED • 2 tbsp. Oil • 2 tbsp. Water • 1/4 tspn. Vanilla • Pinch of Salt • 2 tbsp. Cocoa (unsweetened) • 4 tbsp. Flour • 4 tbsp. Sugar • Chocolate Chips

OTHER SUPPLIES NEEDED • 12oz. Mug • Measuring Spoons • Spoon or Whisk • Microwave

Start off my mixing all wet ingredients in the mug (vanilla, oil and water). Stir the ingredients with your mixing utensil.

Now add all of the dry ingredients to the mug (flour, sugar, salt and cocoa). You can then thoroughly mix this mixture as shown in the photo below.

Pop the mixture into the microwave for just 60-90 seconds (mine took 60 seconds)! As you can see by the clock it was actually almost midnight.

Once it is out of the microwave, add a few chocolate chips. In this photo we actually added them before we cooked the mixture. I actually suggest adding them once it has been taken out because they sort of burn in the microwave.

There you have it! These literally take only 3-4 minutes to create and they are so yummy. Create a large batch of batter by tripling or "sex-tupling" the ingredients above and then pour into several mugs ("sex-tupling", I'm sure that's a word?). I also feel you could make a large batch of batter and pour into a mug when you are ready to have a lovely treat. Top with ice cream or whipped cream and enjoy.

I know I personally enjoyed this brownie a little too much!
xoxo drew

RECIPE :: Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies

OMG! I so want another one of those cookies right now. Of course these cookie/brownies were made prior to me posting this so I can say that! LOL. So me and my friend just got home from another friends house and we wanted to make some cookies. Luckily we had chocolate chips or else this post wouldn't exist! These cookie brownies were literally SO SO easy to make! I think they taste better than a normal cookie as well because they are a bit more dense and chewy which makes them more yummy in this case. Lets get started,

We simply used the recipe on the back of the "Nestle" chocolate chip bag. Easy enough. In case you don't have this brand of chocolate chips,  I have written the recipe below with our little alterations to make them a bit yummier :) At this point you can preheat your oven to 350º

• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt (we added a bit more)
• 1 cup {2 sticks} butter (softened)
• 3/4 cups granulated sugar
• 3/4 cups packed brown sugar (dark)
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract (we added 2)
• 2 eggs
• 1 full bag of those yummy chocolate chips (actually plain chocolate is gross)
    recipe adapted from nestle

Mix together some of the dry ingredients; Consisting of the flour, baking soda and salt. Place in a separate bowl and set off to the side for later, OK!

Next we need to cream some stuff! In a bowl add the :: Butter, Sugar, Brown Sugar and Vanilla. This will all be creamed together to create the "wet" half of the mixture {the bowl we set aside is the dry}.

All creamy now! We are set to start adding small portions of the dry ingredients into this wet mixture and mix until fully combined {approx. 3 portions :: add some dry, mix and repeat until all incorporated}

 

Don't forget the chocolate chips! Make sure to fold these in with a wood spoon or silicon spatchlur {I call a spatula a spa-chu-lur cause I'm weird}

 

So the truth comes out! We actually didn't plan making these cookie brownies! We were just going to make normal cookies but could only find 1 cookie sheet which would only hold about 6 cookies and we were WAY to lazy to wait 10 minutes each batch. That would be like 10 batches. So we were so clever and poured the rest of the batter {we made 6 normal cookies} into an 8x8 pan. We cooked the normal cookies for about 9-12 minutes and this cookie brownie thing for about 20-30 minutes. I wasn't really paying attention to the cook time because we just checked every 5 minutes until it was golden brown and delicious looking :)

So if your wondering why there are 2 chunks missing... BLAME MY FRIENDS! They grabbed some when I went poddy! Dont worry I yelled at them when I got back. Blogging Rule #7 :: Dont eat the food until it's photographed!
They were SUPER yummy! What is your favorite cookie?
xoxo drew {Follow my blog with Bloglovin}