Cherry Mug Cake

Take advantage of fresh cherry season and make this 2-minute cherry mug cake! It makes a yummy, quick dessert or afternoon snack with a cup of tea or coffee. If you don’t have fresh cherries, it works with frozen cherries too! Gluten-free and vegan versions, as well as chocolate versions for the folks like me who desire chocolate in almost everything.

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Cherry Mug Cake

While I was typing up this recipe, I kept making a typo for “cherry” and spelling it cheery.

Cherry desserts do make me feel cheery, so it feels appropriate.

My daughter adores cherries too, and it felt like an important milestone when she could eat around the pit instead of me having to pit all the cherries for her!

While this cherry cake is most delicious with fresh cherries, you can also make this cherry cake with frozen cherries.

If you do, thaw the cherries completely first. That way your mug cake batter will cook properly.

This cherry mug cake makes a yummy quick dessert or afternoon snack. I have had it as a sweet breakfast treat on occasion too!

Let’s go over the simple ingredients…

Single Serving Cherry Cake Ingredients

I based this cherry mug cake on our super popular vanilla mug cake.

The vanilla frosting in that recipe would also be delicious with this mug cake! (or just off a spoon…)

Here’s what you need:

regular flour (or whole wheat flour, or gluten-free all-purpose flour mix)

granulated sugar (white, coconut sugar, erythritol, etc.)

melted butter or oil

milk, any kind you like (cow, almond, oat, soy, etc)

baking powder

almond extract

chopped cherries

You can skip the almond extract if you don’t have any but I’d highly encourage you to pick some up.

I usually get this one because it’s inexpensive and adds a lot of flavor in a tiny drop, but others are great too (just make sure it says extract).

Almond extract also complements cherries so well:

“Looking good today, cherry.”

(The recipe is better than my jokes, I promise.)

Cherry Cake in a Mug Variations

Cherry Chocolate Mug Cake:

Stir in 1-2 tablespoons of chocolate chips to the batter before cooking.

Double Chocolate Cherry Mug Cake:

Stir in 1-2 tablespoons of chocolate chips to the batter before cooking and 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder.

Use only 3 tablespoons of flour, instead of 4 tablespoons like in the base recipe.

Cherry Vegan Mug Cake:

This mug cake recipe is already egg-free.

It’s vegan if you use melted earth balance or coconut oil (or another oil), instead of butter.

Gluten-Free Cherry Cake

Use a gluten-free flour mix 1:1 instead of the regular all-purpose flour.

You might also want to check out all these gluten-free mug cake recipes – so many yummy ones to choose from!

Pin the image below to save it to Pinterest so you’ll have it handy when you want to make this quick and sweet cherry treat!