Mug cakes are single serving cake (well, some recipes make two servings) that you mix and bake in a large mug by microwaving it. It’s hard to figure out when mug cakes became a thing but there were tutorials on YouTube as far back as 2009. There are a wide variety of mug cake mixes available now from Pillsbury, Duncan Hines and other companies. Some of them are even keto friendly. But it seems a crime to purchase a commercial mug cake mix when they take only minutes to make from scratch with ingredients you probably have available.
Mug cake recipes involve most of the ingredients needed to make a real, normal-sized cake, but a smaller scale: flour, sugar, oil, vanilla, salt, etc. The difference between a traditional cake and a mug cake is that when making a mug cake the ingredients are combined and cooked all in one mug, which means less mess, less dishes to wash, and you don’t even need an actual kitchen – just a microwave.
Mug cakes are great for diabetics because they can be made low carb and keto. Since it only makes a single serving you don’t have a whole cake sitting around tempting you. There are loads of recipes online for mug cakes. Whatever your favorite cake is, you will probably find a keto mug cake recipe for it.
Here are a few example:
Although Chocolate Covered Katie doesn’t have a video for her chocolate mug cake recipe, she has great instructions with a lot of step by step photos. Her site is one of the first places I look for a new decadent dessert recipe.
Our first video is from CJsKetoKitchen and is a Carrot mug cake. There is a link to her website below the video on YouTube for the written recipe.
Next up is a three-fer from the Keto Twins: Coffee cake, Strawberry cake, and Cheesecake. Links to the sites where they found the recipes are below the video on YouTube.
Last up is this one is by Dani at Clean & Delicious for a lemon mug cake. The written recipe is in the box under the video on YouTube.
Besides mug cakes, there are recipes for mug cookies and mug brownies. I’m sure you’ll be able to find a recipe that you will enjoy because there are so many online.