Chocolate Microwave Mug Cakes

Because I’m a nice kid, I like to give things away in the spirit of Christmas. Teachers usually are on my gift list. However, this year due to lack of preparation and funds, I was at a loss of what to give.

Cue chocolate microwave mug cakes.

Okay, so I got this ingenius idea of giving my teachers, as the name implies, a cake baked in a mug. I was going to decorate it so it looked like hot chocolate or what not. Plus, once they were done eating it, they were left with a cheezy Christmas mug I found lying around the house (that I soon learned was supposed to be a gift never given).

This recipe is so easy that I can recite it by memory:

Chocolate Microwave Mug Cakes

• Mug
• 4 tbsp flour
• 4 tbsp white sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• Pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp milk
• 3 tbsp oil
• 3 tbsp chocolate chips
• Splash of vanilla extract
• Marshmallows (optional)

Directions

1. Add dry ingredients together (that includes sugar) in the mug. Mix.
2. Add egg. Mix.
3. Add milk and oil. Mix.
4. Add chocolate chips and vanilla. Mix.
5. I personally poured out a little less than 1/3 of the batter into another cup to maximize my cheapness and to prevent too much overflow. This is dependant on how big your mug is, and if you care.
6. Put mug in the microwave and cook it on high for 1 and a half minutes. The batter will rise out of the mug, which is fine, as it’ll fall once you take it out. However, I would keep a close eye to any batter spilling over the sides, in which case I would stop the microwave, whip off the side, and continue cooking.
7. Stick a toothpick through the cake and see if it comes out clean.
8. For my mug cakes, I covered the top with marshmallows while the cup was still hot so it’d melt a little and thus hold its place. I was hoping that the melted marshmallow gloop would play the role of frosting in the sense of retaining moisture.

Yes, it may sound fishy that I actually don’t know how the whole thing tastes, but from the slice I had lopped off from an overflowing top tasted pretty good. It’s chocolate and moist. I would think the bottom of the cake isn’t completely baked, maybe even like a lava cake, but that’d be even better.

Yup, sorry for no picture! Forgot to take one! Not like that it looked impressive anyways. It was just cake in a cup wrapped in clear plastic.

Fanart: "Gingerbread" Dark Tournament

If you haven't figured out from this post, I am currently obsessed over a small series. But to make it more obvious that I'm obsessed, when I was given opportunity to make "gingerbread" graham cracker houses, instead of a house, I made... you guessed it, the dark tournament.
What is the dark tournament? Well, if you don't know already, it's from Yu Yu Hakusho, and really, that's all you need to know. :P

Can you see the similarity?

It's uncanny how both of 'em look so much together, right?

In the reference picture, it shows that half of the roof is intact when Hiei used his Dragon of the Darkness Flame, but in my world, Hiei's just so damn cool that he blew off the whole roof, and even a bit of the side (shown by the uneven crackers at the front). See how ingenious I can be when making up excuses for not having enough graham crackers?

Now, for a more in depth view of the tournament, starting with turnarounds.


But, wait! What is this I see? Something's happening inside the tournament...?

Hiei's (red) in the ring, duking it out with Rinku (instead of whomever he's suppose to fight because Rinku sucks more)...

...with his team, Kurama (orange), Kuwabara (yellow), and Yusuke (green), avidly watching on the side..

...unfazed, unlike other demons which has faced the Dragon's wrath.

Anyways, I'll tell you how to make your very own stupid looking dark tournament now!

I used six crackers for the floor, and eight for the sides. I just glued on three by three for the floor, then on each side (the skinnier one), in between the top and bottom crackers, I glued both of the side crackers perpendicular to the the bottom. Two more crackers should stand in the middle crackers of the floor, across from each other, making a rectangle with the side crackers. Then, slanted crackers were used to connect all the missing parts to form a kind of diamond shape with all its sharp sides cut off.

A "circular" cracker was then covered in icing and stuck in the middle of the stadium. I bit off Hiei's and Rinku's legs to make them shorter, but kept everyone else the same height and found a retarded looking yellow one for Kuwabara. Koto's even there! (The fallen orange one) I threw in some decapitated gummy bears and graham cracker pieces for the effect of Hiei's awesome.

The outside consists of red gummy bears with its face bit off, and flat side stuck on the walls. I think they're windows, but I'm not sure.

And you can't go wrong with cola balls. :P

So, there you go. If you want to make a stupid replication of my equally stupid looking dark tournament, go ahead. I think all I need to tell you now is that the icing was way too thick due to too much icing sugar and too less water. Really, it didn't run at all and when you scooped it, it stuck to the spoon.

BONUS! Guess what my sister made for her graham cracker creation?

The answer is Link from LOZ.

Just imagine, it was 3D once.

(Damn, I just detest Blogger's photo shit.)