Chocolate lovers!!! You need to make this gooey chocolate mug cake ASAP. It’s a quick chocolate dessert that takes minutes to make and only a few ingredients. When you want dessert fast and don’t want all those tempting leftovers, this chocolate cake for one is the perfect fix.
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Gooey Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe
If you’re looking for an easy chocolate cake recipe, I’ve got the one for you.
Fluffy chocolate cake with a gooey chocolate center.
(Side note: why is the word gooey so much more appealing than the word moist?)
Melted chocolate…
This chocolate cake would be Willy Wonka approved.
Sweet but not too sweet. Rich. Satisfying. This mug cake will take care of your chocolate cravings, stat.
You might also want to check out these other chocolate mug cake recipes:
- Hot chocolate bomb mug cake
- Healthy double chocolate mug cake
- 3-ingredient chocolate mug cake
- TikTok Oreo mug cake
- Chocolate candy cane mug cake
- Nutella mug cake
- Chocolate peanut butter mug cake
- Chocolate chip mug cake
Before we go any further, let’s answer this important question in the mug cake world…
Are Mug Cakes Supposed to Be Gooey?
Short answer:
No.
Longer answer:
Just like regular sized cakes baked in an oven, the center should be cooked.
Gooey in general means undercooked.
Not only does that not taste that great in my opinion, it’s also safer to fully cook your batter.
I will avert your eyes if you lick the batter…
I definitely grew up eating all the raw cookie dough and raw cake batter.
But then I opened my own bakery and had to take a food handling course and let me tell you, that ruined me for eating delicious gooey cake batter raw.
Now I get my gooey batter fix by eating Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream. 🙂
So are mug cakes supposed to be gooey – in general no.
But this gooey chocolate mug cake is specially made with a gooey chocolate center, and is fully cooked.
Food handling nerd-approved.
Gooey Chocolate Mug Cake for One: Ingredients
You’ll probably already have all these ingredients in your kitchen:
- Flour
- Cocoa powder
- Chocolate chips or chopped chocolate bar (sometimes I’ll put one or two of these in the center and they melt so well!)
- Sugar
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Melted butter or oil
- Milk (any kind you like to drink)
If you are a mug lover or mug collector, check out my favorite mugs under $25.
How to Make a Gooey Chocolate Mug Cake
Many gooey cake recipes or lava cake recipes rely on undercooking the batter to give that gooey center.
Because I don’t think that tastes the best (and isn’t great for you), that’s not what we’re going to do here.
For this mug cake to have a gooey chocolate center, while still being cooked, we’re going to do something different.
Instead of undercooking the cake, we fill up the middle of the batter with chocolate (I almost always have a bar or two of this in my pantry) and let that melt!
Doesn’t that sound more delicious?
We want this chocolate mug cake batter to be thick.
If it was a thin cake batter the chocolate chips in the center would sink down to the bottom instead of staying in the middle where we want them.
So don’t be alarmed if the batter seems quite thick – it’s supposed to be that way.
One thing we want to make sure we do is not over-microwave this mug cake.
If we do, the chocolate mug cake will not be as gooey in the center.
I found 1 minute to be the perfect amount of time for the mug I used and my microwave. It was cooked but still lovely and melty in the center!
Related recipe: Quick chocolate chip cookie in a mug.
Let’s make this mug cake!
Gooey chocolate mug cake
If you like chocolate, you're going to love this gooey chocolate mug cake! Supremely rich and decadent, with an easy trick to make the yummiest chocolate-filled center!
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp all-purpose flour (can sub with an all-purpose gluten-free flour mix)
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar: plain white, date sugar, coconut sugar, erythritol, etc.
- • ½ tsp baking powder
- • 1 pinch sea salt
- • 1 ½ tbsp melted butter or oil
- • 2 tbsp milk, any kind you like
- • 2 tbsp chocolate chips can use dairy-free or sugar-free, or chopped chocolate
Instructions
1. In a small bowl mix together the flour, cocoa
powder, baking powder, sugar, and pinch of salt.
2. Add in the melted butter or oil and milk, and
stir until mixed.
3. Batter will be thick, don't be alarmed. 🙂
4. Spray your mug with cooking spray and spoon in
half the batter.
5. Spread out the batter with the back of your
spoon or a knife.
6. Make a little indent in the middle of the
batter, and fill it with the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate.
7. Spoon the rest of the chocolate batter over the
filling, and gently spread it out to cover the chocolate chips.
8. Microwave for 1 minute.
9. My mug cake was perfectly done at 1 minute; if yours needs a bit more time, add 15 seconds at a time and watch it.10. Top with whipped cream, coconut whipped cream, or even extra chocolate!
Check out this popular chocolate mug brownie recipe – it’s so chocolately and rich!
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I was sceptical at first but this is amazing! I left away the chocolate chips because I didn’t have any, but this is definitely one of my new favorite recipes now. 10/10