The Pioneer Woman star Ree Drummond’s mug cake recipes provide the perfect chocolate cake fix that you can quickly prep and bake in just 90 seconds. With a handful of ingredients, a mug, and a microwave, you can make a personal cake in a snap.
Ree Drummond’s chocolate cake in a mug recipe couldn’t be easier
While demonstrating how to make the chocolate mug cake on The Pioneer Woman cooking show, Drummond pointed out how perfect the recipe is for college kids. “So you’re a college student, you’re up late at night studying, and suddenly you get a hankering for something warm, sweet, and comforting,” she said. “All you’ve got to have is a microwave and you can make chocolate cake in a mug.”
“This is absolutely amazing,” she added. “It’s so simple — you just put the ingredients right into the mug!”
Drummond pointed out the many great uses for microwaves, but making a mini-cake in a coffee cup tops her list. “Baking in a microwave is pretty much a revelation and what’s great about this cake is you don’t have to have a mixing bowl,” she said. “The mixing bowl is the coffee mug itself.”
‘The Pioneer Woman’ chocolate mug cake is ready in under 5 minutes total
It’s almost too easy to make Drummond’s chocolate mug cake. Add flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder to a microwave-safe mug and stir to combine everything. Add milk, oil, and vanilla, then stir again to mix together the wet and dry ingredients.
For an extra bit of richness in each bite, Drummond recommends the addition of semisweet chocolate chips, which she stirs in at the end.
Bake the chocolate mug cake in the microwave for 90 seconds, remove, and allow it to cool for a minute or so before diving in. “It’s nice and crisp on the surface and then soft in the middle,” she said. You can add ice cream, whipped cream (or both!) for an extra delicious personal dessert.
You can find the full recipe on the Food Network website.
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Ree Drummond has other mug cake recipe variations that are just as easy
If you’re looking for a cake with extra ooey-gooey goodness, Drummond’s chocolate caramel mug cake fits the bill. It comes together in the same way as her traditional chocolate mug cake, but has slightly fewer chocolate chips, and adds finely chopped pecans and soft caramel squares.
Once the mug cake bakes in the microwave, Drummond adds either marshmallow cream or vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce before serving.
Drummond even developed a red velvet mug cake that includes the signature color as well as a recipe for a traditional cream cheese frosting. The frosting recipe makes a small portion so you can frost just your mug cake without having to scale down a full frosting recipe.
If you’re looking for a coffee-flavored mug cake, Drummond has a recipe for that too! Follow her easy mocha mug cake recipe, which varies from her original mug cake with the addition of espresso powder. She tops the cake with whipped cream and chocolate-covered espresso beans for a fun finishing touch.
The recipes are available on The Pioneer Woman website.
