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Cake - Cake in a Mug

Source of Recipe

all easy cookin


Recipe Introduction

P L E A S E read all instructions B E F O R E starting. This is an excellent gift idea.

List of Ingredients

Cake in a Mug

1, 10.25 ounce boxed cake mix, see flavor suggestions below
1, 3 ounce box instant pudding mix, ( not sugar free), see flavor suggestions below

Place the dry cake mix and dry pudding mix into a large bowl and blend
well with a whisk.
This will be about 4 - 4 1/2 cups dry mix and will make 8 to 9 coffee cup
cake mixes.

Place a 1/2 cup dry mix into a sandwich baggie.
Shake the mix into a corner of the bag and tie it there with a twist tie.
Continue making packets until all your dry mix is used.

Flavor suggestions:
Lemon cake mix- lemon pudding
Yellow cake mix- vanilla pudding
Devils food cake mix- chocolate pudding
Pineapple cake mix- coconut pudding
Butterscotch cake mix- butterscotch pudding

Select a large coffee cup. Check it to be sure it holds
1 1/2 cups of water.
That way you will be sure you have bought the correct mug size for this recipe.
Also, it cannot have any metallic paint on it as it will be used in the
microwave.
Retail stores, dollar stores and craft stores sell plain cups.

Decorating the cups:
Paint on the cup if you like.
Deco Art Ultra Gloss Acrylic Enamel is one brand of craft paint that can be
made dishwasher safe by baking the painted cup in the oven.
(instructions are on the bottle of paint usually).
Another idea is to find decorated cups at the same stores as above...
you can usually find tons of them!


Glaze mix

1/3 cup powdered confetioners sugar,
...(or less if you don't want it too sweet)
1 1/2 teaspoons dry flavoring, (examples are
...Unsweetened powdered drink mixes, or cocoa
...powder. For just a vanilla flavor use the vanilla
...flavored coffee powders sold as coffee flavorings)


Select the flavoring appropriate to the cake you are making.
Example:
For a pineapple coconut cake include flaked coconut in a separate bag with
instructions to sprinkle it over the frosted cake. Place the glaze mix
ingredients
into a sandwich bag and tie into corner of bag. Label this bag "glaze mix"
and
attach it to the other bag with a twist tie.

To put together:
Place one baggie cake/glaze mix in each coffee cup.





Recipe

Now attach the following baking instructions to each coffee cup.

Bake a cake in a coffee mug!

Generously spray inside of coffee cup with cooking spray.
Empty contents of large packet into cup.
Add:
1 egg white
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon water
to the dry mix and stir together for 15 seconds, carefully mixing in all the dry mix.
Microwave on full power for 2 minutes.
( you may not get satisfactory results in a low wattage small microwave).
While the mug cake is cooking, place glaze mix ingredients into a very
small container.
Add 1 1/2 teaspoons of water and mix well.
When the mug cake is done, pour the glaze over cake in cup.
Enjoy while warm.

Note:
These are really good. I was quite pleased with the
results and how tasty they were. I found the glaze was a
bit on the sweet side so next time I will use less sugar.
It is great to make up a bunch, keep in a container and
then just pull out what you want to make...great for if
you just want to make1 or 2 servings at a time instead of
making a whole cake.