Chocolate Cake in a Mug

The Most Dangerous Choccie Cake Recipe in the World After all the talk on buddies about the muffin in a mug cake, I thought you might like this one that was sent to me...

· Get out your biggest mug. (Mine is a 500ml pottery beer mug.)
· Break an egg into it.
· Add 2 tbsp sugar (2x20ml)
· Add 2 tbsp cocoa
· Little splash of vanilla
· Beat well with a fork
· Add 1 tbsp self-raising flour
· Add 1 tbsp milk
· Add 1 tbsp oil
· (in that order, so you don't get the measuring spoon all yukky)
· Mix it all up with the fork until no lumps. Makes 180ml total
without extras.

· (Optional extras at this point are a slurp of your favourite tipple,
and/or a couple of leftover baby Easter eggs, or 1-2 tbsp chockbits, or 2 or
3 after dinner mints, chocolate ginger or whatever rows your boat.)

· Cook for 1 minute 20 seconds in a 1600W microwave, adjusted for the
power of yours. The mixture rose up almost to the top of my big mug, then sank back to twice the starting size. According to the original (erroneous) recipe "the mixture does rise up above the top of the mug, but don't worry."
Do you believe that?
· Stand 1 minute.
· You can shovel it out with the fork and eat it straight away, or top
up the mug with whipped cream and shovel it out anyway, or
· Tip it out on a plate and shovel from there, which makes room for
more fruit and veg, cream and/or icecream. Any chocolate you added will melt like a frosting if you let it sit for an hour, or sauce if you are a greedy guts who thinks waiting for cake to cool, and chocolate to harden is a pointless exercise.
· This is a light cake with a few holes in it. It is not as onerous as
restaurant chocolate cake to eat, but might be with ½ a cup of Baileys poured over it. You could probably make it more onerous by adding more oil, but what's the point? Don't want to kill yourself, do you?

SUGGESTION: Email this to a friend and agree on a time for coffee and cake over a phonecall. Five minutes before you ring them, put the kettle on, and make your cake while the kettle is boiling. Enjoy. It's a whole new take on "I saw you pull into the driveway and just popped a batch of scones in the oven!"

Louisa