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Yummy 5 - minute chocolate Cake
Yummy 5 - minute chocolate Cake
added by lillyshak

A delicious 5 - minute cake recipe for the moments when you need cake, stat!

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Prep time
  • 2 - 3 minutes
Cook Time
  • 3 - 4 minutes
Servings
  • 5 - 6 small bowlfuls, or 3 large, greedy portions!
Ingredients
  • 4 tablespoons flour (any type except rice/oat flour)
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa powder (it has to be cocoa, not hot chocolate)
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 3 tablespoons sunflower/vegetable oil (NEVER use olive oil)
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Directions

1. In a medium, microwaveable bowl, crack the egg.

2. Add flour, sugar, oil and milk.

3. Whisk until light and frothy (aprox. 1 and a half minutes).

4. Add cocoa.

5. Whisk until mix is frothy and light brown.

6. Microwave for 3 minutes.

7. Take out, and check weather cooked. If it is cooked, it will be soft and fluffy, and very obviously a cake.

8. If uncooked, bake for another 30 seconds - 1 minute.

9. Best Served with lashings of cream.

3 replies
David
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Mine came out rubbery. Why ?

lillysha...
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Thank you jean1!!!

jean1
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Just made this and it really is yummy!

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