101 Recipes for Microwave Mug Cakes: Single-Serving Snacks in Less Than 10 Minutes

When you microwave cake, it changes the texture. If texture is important to you, keep looking.

Many of the recipes use prepared foods for flavoring. MMC are fresh and homemade, but not what I would consider from scratch. Which is OK, if you normally keep on hand ingredients like: baby food (banana, carrot, pear), fruit juice (apple and orange), gelatin (cherry, grape, orange), pie filling (blueberry and cherry), pudding powder (butterscotch, coconut, pistachio), strawberry nesquick, and yogurt (lemon, raspberry, plain, peach). There are a lot of ingredients that kids like. Things that I don't normally have, especially baby food, or don't have the variety called for.

The recipes have as many ingredients as from scratch and may leave you with open food products less a tablespoon. For me, collecting and mixing ingredients too time consuming; the whole point of microwave food is simple and fast.

I like the book and it has lots of good ideas. But I'll be sticking with "my own" recipe for MMC. If you have never tasted microwave cake and aren't sure about buying this book, you may want to try it.

Mix 4 Tbs cake mix, 1 egg, and approximately 1 Tbs of yogurt (plain or flavored).

Spray large mug with cooking oil and fill with mixture. philly cream cheese cake recipes

Microwave for about 3 ½ minutes.

Since microwaves vary, you will need to experiment with the time. It overcooks/burns very quickly.

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