Coffee Cup Turtle Cake

  • 12 oz mug

DRY INGREDIENTS

  • 3 TBL Flour
  • 3 TBL Sugar
  • 1/4 tsp Baking powder
  • 2 TBL Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  • 2 TBL Chocolate Chips
  • 3 caramels (cut into pieces)
  • Optional:  2 TBL lightly crushed pecans

WET INGREDIENTS

  • 3 TBL Milk
  • 1 Egg
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla
  • 1 TBL melted butter

STEP BY STEP

  1. Mix together dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
  2. Fold in with wet ingredients
  3. Pour carefully into coffee cup cleaning any that gets on the sides
  4. Nuke for 60 seconds if you have a powerful microwave, or 90 seconds if you have a standard microwave
  5. Go 20 seconds more if still not cooked
    DO NOT OVERCOOK or cake will become tough.  Butter knife should come out fairly clean.
  6. Let cool a few minutes before eating
  7. Optional:  Top with whipped cream, marshmallow cream, or melted caramel sauce

CREDIT:  Based on the Chocolate Mud Cake as demonstrated by young author Gemma Stafford, and as cooked with her mom Suzanne

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