Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe (2024)

Published: Feb 26, 2022 | Last Updated On: Dec 17, 2023 by Sharmilee J

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Chocolate Mug Cake is a yummy & delicious quick cake made in mug with the ingredients that is easily available in your pantry. Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe is eggless and can be made with wheat flour or all-purpose flour (maida) or with any flour literally. Chocolate Mug Cake is the quickest to make of all cakes and very tasty that family will come for more. Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe is explained in this post with step by step pictures & video.

Chocolate Mug Cake meets your sudden cake or sweet cravings and can be had anytime! Chocolate Mug Cake recipe is one good recipe for baking beginners!

Table of Contents

1About Chocolate Mug Cake

2Chocolate Cake Ingredients

3📖 Recipe Card

4Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe

5How to make Chocolate Mug Cake

6Expert Tips

7Variations

About Chocolate Mug Cake

Who will not say no to chocolate? This Chocolate Mug ake Recipe is too good and is a must try and can be made often too as it is a no guilt mug cake. This Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe will not let you down as it is perfected with more than 50 mugs of the wonder! And the beauty is the craving will never end for this yummiest, moist Chocolate Mug Cake!

Why Chocolate Mug Cake?

Chocolate Cake is favourite for many and to make it often requires time, effort and lot of ingredients.Chocolate Mug Cake is the solution to all – as it can be made real quick, effortless and with lesser ingredients.

Chocolate Mug Cake is my kids favourite, so I keep making it often and have experimented lot of variations with ingredients, appliances and mugs!

Chocolate Mug Cake – Oven, Microwave and Stove Top Version

Microwave – With Microwave, it takes less than 10 minutes from scratch to end to prepare the cake. It is quickest method but I always opt for oven method as I don’t own a microwave considering the health factors.
Oven – OTG / oven needs preheating time of 10 minutes while we can get the flour blend ready and baking time of 15-20 minutes.
Stove top steaming : This works well too and is perfect for those who don’t own any oven but want to try mug cake recipes.

Chocolate Mug Cake – Maida & Wheat Flour Versions

Chocolate Mug Cake is generally made with All Purpose Flour or maida. Since we started making it almost every week, I thought of minor healthy twist and tried quiet a number of iterations to get the perfect Wheat Flour Chocolate Mug Cake – the kids will not be able to notice the difference in the cake but can – in my smile!

Chocolate Cake Ingredients

Flour: You can use either maida (all-purpose flour) or wheat flour for this recipe. Refer to the respective heading for accurate measurements. Flour can be either homemade or store-bought.
Coco Powder: I have used Hershey’s coco powder and chocolate shavings / choco chips for the extra choclatey taste! However it is not mandatory to add shavings if you do not have it.
Sugar: Sugar does the magic with coco powder – Use regular granulated sugar / fine sugar for this recipe. Use cane sugar if you are diet conscious, however you might notice a slight change in the taste.
Rising Agent & Flavours: I have used Baking Soda as rising agent and vanilla essence for flavours. Add odourless cooking oil – refined sunflower or refined rice bran oil which aids in getting evenly cooked moisty cake. Gingelly / Groundnut / Coconut oil may overpower the cake – hence avoid them.
Milk: Toned / full cream all sorts of milk will work for this recipe. For vegan option, you can replace with Badam / Almond milk or soy milk but I have not tried with them.

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Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe

Chocolate Mug Cake is a yummy & delicious quick cake made in mug with the ingredients that is easily available in your pantry.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time20 minutes mins

Total Time30 minutes mins

Servings1 mug cake

AuthorSharmilee J

Ingredients

Dry mix:

4 tablespoon wheat flour
4 tablespoon cane sugar
2 tablespoon coco powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Wet mix:

4 tablespoon milk
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence

Instructions

To a mixing bowl – add wheat flour, cane sugar, coco powder.
Add baking soda to it. Mix well using a whisk.
Add milk and oil to it.
Add vanilla essence to it. Whisk well so that there are no lumps.
The batter should be smooth and creamy. Take a oven safe mug, Transfer batter to oven safe mug.
Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 20 mins. Insert a toothpick and check – if it comes out clean then the cake is done. If its sticky then baking for few more mins.
Serve Chocolate Mug Cake warm!

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Notes

The mug is quite huge one and so both the kids shared the cake. Make sure to use only oven safe mugs.
If your mug is small then pour in 2 mugs and bake. The batter rises well so choose a mug accordingly.
The timing may vary so check after 15 mins then proceed accordingly.
I have given timing for oven and not microwave.
The cake is mildly sweet, if you prefer you can increase sweetness. I used wheat flour and cane sugar but you can replace it with white flour and regular sugar itself.
You can add a 1tbso of choco chips for a more richer version.

Nutrition Facts

Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe

Amount Per Serving (125 g)

Calories 479Calories from Fat 162

% Daily Value*

Fat 18g28%

Saturated Fat 3g19%

Trans Fat 0.1g

Polyunsaturated Fat 4g

Monounsaturated Fat 10g

Cholesterol 7mg2%

Sodium 300mg13%

Potassium 277mg8%

Carbohydrates 79g26%

Fiber 5g21%

Sugar 51g57%

Protein 7g14%

Vitamin A 97IU2%

Calcium 92mg9%

Iron 3mg17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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How to make Chocolate Mug Cake

To a mixing bowl – add wheat flour, cane sugar, coco powder.
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Add baking soda to it. Mix well using a whisk.
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Add milk and oil to it.
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Add vanilla essence to it. Whisk well so that there are no lumps.
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The batter should be smooth and creamy. Take a oven safe mug, Transfer batter to oven safe mug.
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Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 20 mins.Insert a toothpick and check – if it comes out clean then the cake is done. If its sticky then baking for few more mins.
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Serve it warm with chocolate syrup or dig in as such as we did.

Chocolate Mug Cake

I am obsessed with this chocolate cake recipe. I always love mug cake recipes,easy to satisfy your chocolate cravings instantly, and the portion is small too. This cake uses both wheat flour and maida, you can replace this recipe with fully maida or fully wheat flour too.

I have made this cake so many times whenever we crave for some chocolaty dessert.Chill the cake,drizzle some chocolate syrup and you are in for a heaven experience I can assure.Mittu is fond of this cake so I make it often these days atleast once in 2 weeks.This is so easy to put together just one bowl add all the ingredients mix and bake..yes as easy as that! This is another cake recipe that tolerated all my experimentations.

Ingredients

Maida – 2 tablespoon
Wheat Flour – 1 tablespoon
Coco powder – 2 tablespoon
Granulated Sugar – 4 tablespoon
Cooking oil – 1 tablespoon
Milk – 5 tablespoon(Boiled and cooled)
Dark Chocolate Shavings – 1 tablespoon(optional)
Vanilla Essence – 1/4 teaspoon
Baking Soda – 1/4 teaspoon

How to make Chocolate Mug Cake

in a mixing bowl,take maida then add wheat flour.Add coco powder.
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Add sugar and baking soda.
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Now mix well with a whisk.Then add cooking oil.
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Add milk,then vanilla essence.
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Whisk it well,keep whisk until sugar is dissolved completely.Then add chocolate shavings.
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Mix once.Preheat oven at 180 deg C for 10mins.While the oven preheats,take your oven safe mugs, pour the batter into it.
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Bake at 180 deg C for 15-18mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean or with slight crumbs.
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Cool down, drizzle chocolate syrup and serve with sprinklers.

Expert Tips

Make sure to use only oven safe mugs – else the mug will break during baking. Oven Safe mugs are available at Home Centre, @home, Currimbhoys, PoppatJamals& online in Amazon &Flipkart
If your mug is small then pour in 2 mugs and bake.The batter rises well so choose a mug accordingly.
You can prepare the mix individually in mugs or in a mixing bowl & transfer to mugs based on the quantity you are planning to make.
Do not double the ingredients and add it in the same mug – the bottom will not get cooked. Alternatively you can double/triple measures in a bowl and then transfer to mugs.
The cake is mildly sweet, if you prefer you can increase sweetness.
Add odourless cooking oil, else oil will overpower with smell & taste.
Do not rest the batter. Just mix, pour and bake it as soon as it’s mixed.
OTG / Oven version:The timing may vary with oven, so check after 15 mins then proceed accordingly.

Variations

Apart from wheat, OTG, microwave variations you can try these variations of Chocolate Mug Cake.

You can add a 1tablespoon of choco chips with the blend for a more chocolaty version.
You can top the Chocolate Mug cake with choco syrup, choco chips& colourful sprinklers
You can add any essence of your choice
You can try this recipe with ragi too!
You can try this with eggs too – mix half portion of the egg (after whisking) for 1 mug of cake.

Serving & Storage Suggestions

Chocolate Mug Cake tastes best when warm, hot & cold too! You can consume it even next day after refrigerating it!

Serve it as such or with vanilla ice cream or add chocolate sauce / chips as topping. This is the best instant cake for serving guests in individual portions. You can surprise your guests with this instant cake.

FAQs

1.What is Chocolate Mug Cake?

Chocolate Mug Cake is a yummy & delicious quick cake made by blending flour with coco powder, sugar & milk and baking it. Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe is eggless and can be made with wheat flour or all-purpose flour (maida) with oven and instantly with microwave.What is Chocolate Mug Cake?

2.How do you make Chocolate Mug Cake?

Blend the prescribed quantity of maida, coco powde, sugar and baking soda

Add oil, milk, essence and whisk well till sugar dissolves completely

Preheat oven and in the meantime transfer the blend to individual mugs

Bake at 180 deg for 20 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean or with slight crumbs.

Cool down, drizzle chocolate syrup and serve with sprinklers.

3.Can I use the regular tea mug for making Chocolate Mug Cake?

USE OVEN SAFE MUGS ONLY – Regular coffee mugs gets broken while breaking!

4.Can I skip Chocolate shavings, choco chips?

Yes very well – it is added for making the Chocolate Mug Cake more chocolatier and not mandatory!