Tuesday 29 January 2013

Have your cake and eat it

When DD2 announced she wanted to bake a Sunday afternoon sponge on the weekend I gave up sugar forever, a small anguished cry escaped my lips. Then I had a flash of inspiration: I remembered seeing a cake in a mug recipe so I set out to hunt it down. Turns out there are millions of them, but I used this one. (Incidentally, this is a student website which had other nuggets of usefulness including budget meals, how not to get too drunk on a night out and instructions to make a googly eyed ghost out of a tampon.)

DD2 magnanimously selected my least favourite cake in the world (chocolate, bizarrely) used a tablespoon to measure all the ingredients straight into the mug and after a bit of jostling over the stirring - by this point we all wanted a piece of the action - shoved it in the microwave. 


It was miraculous. It rose up out of the cup majestically. 


Then dropped a little.


DD1 said it looked like a lipstick popping up of the tube, but it reminded me of Ralph's little fella when he gets excited. This is Ralph unexcited.


Then after a scant three minutes it passed the skewer test.




 Ready to eat. (DD1 helped a bit.)


I've seen this referred to online as dangerous and I can see why. I mean, not only is it instant cake, there's virtually no washing up. Thank god this discovery is not going to be a problem for me.

4 comments:

  1. I don't know why but i was expecting some sort of explosion in the microwave, to be honest i am little disappointed it didn't.

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  2. Ha ha. Will try to write an explosive post next time.

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  3. Ha ha ha, was really quite interested in the cake until you likened it to your dogs bits!!!

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    1. Lol, who needs Weight Watchers when we have Ralph's bits...

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