Review: The Most Dangerous Cake Recipe in the World

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The Most Dangerous Cake Recipe in the World 




5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE!!



¼ cup flour


¼ cup sugar


2 tablespoons cocoa


1 egg


3 tablespoons milk


3 tablespoons oil


3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)


A small splash of vanilla extract and your favorite tipple


1 large coffee mug



· Add dry ingredients to your largest mug and mix well.

· Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

· Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.

· Add the chocolate chips (if using), vanilla extract and a drop or two of your favourite tipple, then mix again.


· Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at full power (high).
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!





· Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.




· EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).




And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now you are only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night! You are going to forward this straight away, aren't you... 


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From My Secret Test Kitchen

I received this recipe in the email from a cousin of mine. He’s a really tall, bull dogging, Army veteran….not some metro Food TV wannabe.

Since guys like him don’t normally sit around the kitchen trading recipes, I knew this had to be something a bit different than sharing Aunt Marge’s secret recipe for buttermilk cake or the perfect peach chiffon pie. I also knew that someday, somehow, I was going to try making it.

At first, I sent it to all my daughters and the cake lady at work. I was certain one of them would try it. Looks easy enough…and it’s chocolate. How bad could it be?

Everybody replied, “Let me know how it works out!” No sense of noble experimentation.

I believe they chickened out when they got to the part about “The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!” My wife complains already about the mess I make in the kitchen. Imagine her not completely unwarranted concern about exploding a chocolate cake on the inside of the microwave? Heck, I blew up a lobster in a microwave once….but that’s another story for another time.

So it became clear to me that if I was going to taste test this dangerous cake, it was up to me to make it all happen.

First, I reviewed the recipe. When I got to the tipple part of the ingredients, I thought that was just what I needed to get started. So I carefully poured a good measure of brandy and began contemplating my next move: Make it and taste test it. I decided the brandy was much too good to experiment with and set it aside where I could still reach it, but not pour it into the cake. I easily convinced myself that the cake would have to stand or fall on it’s own merits and not on the merits of my taste in brandy.

I assembled the remaining ingredients on the list (less the chocolate chips since I didn’t have any on hand). It was then I discovered I didn’t have a coffee cup big enough to hold the cake…so I opted for one of my wife’s pretty blue bowls. She was sleeping so she couldn’t stop me.

I measured, poured and stirred. I sprayed the bowl with a shot of cooking spray for safe measure. If I was thinking, I would have sifted the cocoa powder and flour together to get the cocoa lumps out….so a lesson learned there. Clumpy cocoa powder has it’s drawbacks in the finished product.

I poured the mass into the prepared bowl and popped it in the oven. Then I fumbled with my iPhone trying to get the camera to work before the show was over. It was an following pictures.

So, sipping my brandy, I cut into the belly of the chocolate beast. It was much more like an English pudding than a cake. Nothing light textured and airy about it. More dense but definitely chocolatey! Not as dense as the chocolate chip cake in military Meals-Ready-To-Eat (MREs); but definitely you’re not leaving the table hungrey.

Overall, I’d rate this recipe as easy, tasty and definitely fast. Clean up was a cinch (I just left the dishes in the sink and went to bed).

Mother’s Day is coming up…if you did the dishes and made her a cake, I think you’d hit a home run!