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This 5 minute mug cake recipe is well worth making. It has to be one of the quickest and easiest vanilla cake recipes ever! You simply have to mix the ingredients together and then cook it in the microwave in a microwave safe mug until done. This 5 minute chocolate mug cake is ideal for Christmas if you’re tired from all the festive baking and you just want something quick and easy that you can whip up in 5 minutes flat! It can be made a chocolate mug cake by substituting the vanilla for cocoa.
Served hot, this delicious chocolate mug cake is guaranteed to warm your heart and put a smile on your face. It’s so good with whipped cream on top.
Craving festive treats? Check out eggnog cheesecake, gingerbread oatmeal bars or chocolate peppermint meringue kiss cookies.
Why You’ll Love It
Easy: If there’s an easier way to make chocolate mug cake, we haven’t found it yet. This recipe is so simple – you just have to stir the ingredients in a mug and microwave!
Tasty: The combination of basic cake making staples plus your choice of chocolate or vanilla (or both!) ensures a delicious result.
Tweak-able: You can take your pick from making a vanilla or chocolate mug cake, as you prefer, or even change up the flavor and try a coffee cake or something totally different!
Ingredients for 5 Minute Mug Cake
To make this chocolate mug cake, you need flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, milk, oil, vanilla extract (or cocoa powder) and sprinkles.
How to Make 5 Minute Christmas Mug Cake
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Combine the dry ingredients: Mix the flour with the sugar, baking powder and salt in a microwave safe mug.
Add the wet ingredients: Now stir in the milk, vegetable oil and half the sprinkles, then top with the rest of the sprinkles.
Cook the vanilla or chocolate mug cake: Microwave the vanilla or chocolate mug cake for 1 1/2 minutes or in 10 second intervals until done, then serve warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream and perhaps some more sprinkles and/or chocolate, strawberry, caramel, or fudge syrup.
Substitutions and Variations
Use your choice of vanilla extract or chocolate, or even omit both and sub something else like some minced fresh ginger and a pinch of warm spices, or anything else you like to use when making cake. Feel free to add in some mini chocolate chips, butterscotch chips or dark chocolate shavings.
How to Serve Vanilla or Chocolate Mug Cake
Served with your choice of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, this has to be the best mug cake you ever tried!
If you’re making these when family or friends come over, you might also like to offer some homemade cookies, such as fig cookies or chocolate covered Oreos.
How to Store Mug Cake Recipes
Store: There isn’t much point making more of this chocolate mug cake recipe than you’re going to eat right away, since it only takes a few minutes to make more, although leftovers will keep for a couple of days in an airtight container in the fridge.
Freeze: You can freeze it but again there isn’t much point when you can whip up more mug cake recipes so fast!
Mouthwatering Mug Cakes FAQs
This helps keep the ones on top separate and means they will melt on top and look pretty and colorful. You can use any kind of sprinkles you want here – regular chocolate, white chocolate, multicolored, or a mixture, and also add chocolate chips if you want to.
Since microwaves come with different power ratings, the time of 1 minute and 30 seconds is a guideline only. If your mug cake isn’t quite done in those 90 seconds, give it more time in 10 second increments, until it is.
Vanilla or Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe
Christmas Mug Cake
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons all purpose flour
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 4 Tablespoons milk
- 1 ½ Tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract, or 1 Teaspoon of cocoa
- 1 Tablespoon sprinkles, divided
Instructions
- In an 8 ounce mug, use a fork to mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt until well-combined.
- Add the milk, vegetable oil, vanilla (or cocoa) and half of the sprinkles. Stir until fully mixed, being sure to scrape the bottom of the mug.
- Top with the remaining sprinkles.
- Cook in the microwave for 1 minute and 30 seconds or until the top is opaque and the cake is cooked through.
- Serve with whipped cream and extra sprinkles.
Nutrition
You’re going to love this sumptuous easy Christmas mug cake. It’s so easy to make and will satisfy your chocolate craving perfectly. There’s nothing not to love. Rather than having to wait for an hour making a traditional cake, you can satisfy those late night chocolate cravings within minutes! Any chocolate lover will enjoy this, or you can make a vanilla flavored mug cake or any other variety you want.
Other Recipes to Try
- For a festive dessert twist, try out the Gingerbread Cheesecake Dip.
- Mint Chocolate Puppy Chow is a delightful treat for any chocolate lover.
- Learn how to make classic Nut Brittle Recipe.
- Try these Pecan Sugar Cookies too.
- Elevate your cookie game with these colorful Italian Rainbow Cookies.
- These Gingerbread Cheesecake Jars are a holiday crowd-pleaser.
Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
This was a flavor explosion. Absolutely amazing!