One-serving cake that can be made quickly and with any of your favorite flavors. Excellent, simple recipes that kids can prepare on their own. Flavors can be used creatively at this place. Add a few teaspoons of your preferred pie filling, cocoa powder, or flavor extract. Get crazy!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 mins |
| Total Time: | 11 mins |
| Servings: | 1 |
| Yield: | 1 cake |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- ½ beaten egg
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 drops vanilla extract, or more to taste
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ⅛ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Stir 1 tablespoon softened butter and white sugar together in a coffee mug until fluffy; stir egg, sour cream, and vanilla extract into the butter mixture. Add 1/4 cup flour and baking powder into the mixture; stir until smooth.
- Mix 2 tablespoons flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Mash 1 tablespoon butter into the flour mixture with a fork or pastry cutter until mixture is crumbly; sprinkle over the cake batter in the mug.
- Cook in microwave oven on high for 1 minute. Continue cooking in 10-second intervals until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 631 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 78 g |
| Cholesterol | 167 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 19 g |
| Sodium | 280 mg |
| Sugars | 39 g |
| Fat | 32 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This recipe is amazing. I did change one thing because I wanted less sugar. So I replace the white sugar with pure Stevia extract powder (Trader Joe’s). I used 1/4 of a teaspoon for every tablespoon of white sugar that the recipe ask for. And taste delicious I will be making this again.
Full disclosure: I wanted a healthier version, so I substituted almond flour for the white flour, and coconut sugar for BOTH the white sugar and the brown sugar. (Same amounts as called for). Microwaved for one minute exactly. It was delicious! It was a bit of work, but I will definitely make this again. Thanks for a great recipe! I hope some people find my healthier version to their liking.
I didn’t have sour cream (and don’t like cinnamon) so I didn’t include those two things and it still tasted really good! I’d definitely recommend.
i love the recipe but it was very long
I messed up basically every step but it still turned out really good! Definitely going to need another try to perfect, though.
I goofed. I got the two flour amounts mixed up somehow and ended up with the 2T of flour in the cake portion. I didn’t realize this because I didn’t make the streusel Topping. The next time I made it I realized the mistake and used the proper 1/4c of flour as written and also left off the streusel topping. The “goofed” version with half the flour amount was the one we preferred. It’s more moist overall. This will be my go-to single-serving cake from now on. So good!
Made a few changes based on lots of other combined reviewers’ suggestions: 1 TbL extra flour, Just the egg yolk instead of halting a whole egg, double butter amount for topping
Ive made this twice so far and its exactly what ive been looking for. Instead of shortening i just used an entire egg. it tastes great. i also, only recommend ONE minute in the microwave. Be cautious after that, the first time i overcooked very quickly. still tasted good though.
I usually have issues with the texture of mug cakes so I kind of knew to adjust some of the measurements just a tiny bit. I used 2 tblsp of butter to the batter instead of the 1, added an extra 1 tblsp.of flour to the 1/4 cup, and 1 egg yolk instead of the half egg. The topping is great as is. I also microwaved for 90 seconds. The texture came out GREAT. Cakey just like a coffee cake should be. Very yummy and definitely a keeper.
I made two tonight. I changed the vanilla to banana and raspberry extracts. covered the top in cinnamon sugar instead. We loved them both.
I liked this okay. I added a tablespoon of cherry pie filling and used almond extract. I also added red sugar to the topping. (It was for a Valentine’s Day theme.) Mine took 2 minutes to cook. It’s not my favorite mug cake, but it worked for a quick breakfast treat.
It was okay. A little rubbery, I think. But tasty. I’d like to play around with the recipie. I have a large mug so I doubled and added walnuts that went great with the cinnamon! Tasty flavors, now to iron out the texture.
It’s a little eggy/heavy instead of light and fluffy, but will do in a pinch. I measured exactly 2 Tbsp. of a beaten egg to add to the mug. Next time I will try 1.5 Tbsp of egg and probably reduce the sour cream to 1.5 tsp too as it tasted a bit like sour cream.
Very very good, the after taste is a little funky but over all fantastic mug cake!!
I have to sub gluten free flour and this is great with no tweaks!
Made this tonight, added some caramel bits to the batter. Great mug cake, will make again!
This was tasty! I didn’t have baking powder so I used baking soda and also did not have anymore sour cream so that wasn’t included. Still not bad.
This was so easy and tasted pretty good. I made it without the topping. I actually liked the dense and moist consistency of the cake due to being microwaved. I was looking for a super quick pastry recipe to use when my fruit salad turned juicier than I wanted it to (so I used it as a topping), and it was perfect topped with the berries. If I were to just eat this cake by itself, I would add a little more vanilla next time. I doubled the recipe and made it in a bowl; it worked great. Thank you, Adastra808.
I made this as a lemon cake which is my favorite. I omitted the cinnamon and brown sugar and substituted 1 tablespoon sugar instead. What a wonderful addition to my 1 serving recipes collection.
I really love this idea. I added a couple drops of lemon extract and omitted the topping, replacing it with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. I am surprised at how tasty this was, if a bit chewy. Okay, very chewy, but the taste and the fact that I had a piece of cake to eat five minutes after reading this recipe more than make up for that.
Followed recipe as written; too sweet and a bit rubbery. Not crazy about the flavor; cinnamon too overpowering.