5 Minute Dessert: Paleo Chocolate Cake In A Cup
4 Mar
A Cup Of Paleo Chocolate Cake
What! A cup of paleo (and gluten free) chocolate cake?! Oh, it gets better… it only takes less than 5 minutes to make. How is that possible? You make it in the microwave! Here’s how to make Paleo Chocolate Cake In A Cup:
Prep Time: 1 minute
Cook Time: 2 minute
- 3 tbsp Coconut Flour
- 3 tbsp Cocoa Powder (unsweetened or sweetened, up to you… I had ground chocolate and cocoa powder laying around so I used that.)
- 2 tbsp of Honey (if you picked sweetened cocoa powder, just go with 1 tbsp or even none!)
- 2 tbsp of Butter (melted, just heat it up in the microwave)
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract
- 1 tbsp of Milk or Coconut Milk (to offset that dryness from coconut flour!)
Ingredients (minus the coconut milk/milk)
Instructions
1. Throw all the ingredients in a mug.
Ingredients in a mug
2. Mix it up! I used a fork, but you can use whatever. I suggest if you want to use a mixer, to actually mix it NOT in the mug as to not make a huge mess (lesson learned for me the first time I was making this!).
Ingredients mixed up (before I remembered to add milk…)
3. Pop it in the microwave and nuke it for 2 minutes. 4. Let sit for a couple of minutes for it to (1) cool down and not burn your tongue off and (2) for it to be less moist. 5. Now enjoy your accomplishment and admire that it only took you less than 5 minutes to make it!
Mmm… chocolate cake
This is so yummy, I had made it as part of my Valentines Day Feast! I kind of change up the ingredients each time I’ve made it, and I encourage you to try that out too! If you search online, this idea has been done a couple of times with different ingredient variations. This is just the way I’ve stuck to recently so I thought I’d share! Hope you all enjoy your 5 minutes chocolate cakes! :)
I made a very similar recipe to this, but stirred it over soaked almonds and let it dry as a coating. This is a fantastic recipe – thanks for posting it!!
That sounds like a great idea! I should try adding nuts some time, I definitely have some almonds and pistachios laying around :) Thanks for stopping by!
Wow, I don’t follow a Paleo diet, but I am dying to try this dessert!
It’s still a fun dessert to make! If you want you might be able to switch up the coconut flour with regular flour since you’re not on the Paleo diet! If you do, you probably don’t need that much melted butter/milk. Good luck!
I tried this and mine did not come out right? :( My mix ended up too dry so I added more milk and it was still too dry? Any suggestions?
Hey Raina! Coconut flour tends to be super dry compared to other flours, what you can try doing is: 1) Make sure it’s mixed really well, and then add even more milk until lumps are gone and it is not too dry/hard to mix or 2) you can try to replace the coconut flour with almond flour and then cut down on the milk. Or, you can also try mixing the two. I hope that helps!
Love this…super easy dessert
Yum!!! What a delicious looking dessert. I need this in my life!
Can you cook it in the oven?
Hey! Though I’ve never tried it, I am sure you can as it is all the ingredients to make a chocolate cake anyway! Definitely make sure you have an oven-safe mug if you’re going to do this. I would try baking in the oven at 350° for 15-25 minutes depending on your oven. Let me know if you try this out and how it goes! Thanks!
I tried it out and it worked fine, but it took a bit longer to cook. :)
That is awesome to know! How long and at what temp did you try?
Ummm YUM! I saw this on Pinterest and came right to your website then printed the recipe and tried it immediately. Oh my gosh this was so yummy. I didn’t have coconut flour but made it with Almond flour and it still turned out A-MAZ-ING! Hubby loved it too.
Haha, sooo glad you liked it! It’s definitely ok to mix it up and use almond flour! Sometimes I use both so I can still get a little bit of that coconut flour taste in it and not have it too dry :)