Chocolate Mug Cake

so...I may be way behind the times here, but I had never heard of a mug cake until recently. and then the first recipe I came across called for oven safe mugs and, obviously, for baking in the oven. well, that seemed like a bit too much trouble to go to just for a little bit of cake...I mean, if you are going to heat up the oven anyway--why not just cook a regular size cake? and have a party! :) THEN I read about this...

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil (I used applesauce instead)
3 tablespoons chocolate chips(optional--but why would you not?)
1 tsp. vanilla

1 large coffee mug



Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well (I mix mine in another bowl and then add it all to my mug to cook--because I like it to be as neat as possible, but then I you do have to wash an extra dish...)

Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

Pour in the milk and oil (or applesauce) and mix well.

Add the chocolate chips  and vanilla, and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts. (My microwave is 1100 so I did it at 90%)

The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! (do put a plate under it, if you don't want to have to mop up chocolate drizzle--it doesn't explode, just drips a bit--it's actually very cool to watch it rise and fall)

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

this serves 2 nicely (or 3 munchkins!) --and I think cooked in a heart-shaped mug would be an adorable Valentine's Day treat  :)

roses

I thought it would be fun to try sending in blog posts from my phone. --but then all this silly text stuff about it being sent from my phone comes through, too!

I'm going to try one with text, as well--but for now--here is a pic of the lovely roses my hubby gave me this week.  they make me smile. :)

They Still Do These!!!

<----------looky!

 Closer...

...that's right... I got THE PRIZE IN THE BOX

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I had no idea there were still cereal boxes with prizes in them. how fun:)




 and now you also see what a seriously cool mom I am. seriously. they are still singing my praises. I mean, it's no chocolate cake... oooh! that reminds me--I have a post to share about this amazing chocolate cake that you make in the microwave (not those packaged ones that my husband pointed out they have in the store--this is homemade!)

I am feeling the need to share a recipe, since I inadvertently led you to believe yesterday that I knew how to make spam sushi. I regret I do not. My host family in Hawaii when I was there in college does. I'll ask them. oh wait, I've completely lost contact with them. *sigh* oh well. but HEY! I have this chocolate cake thingy...

spam

I HATE SPAM.

no, not the canned meat stuff. (I actually kinda like that when served in little wanna-be sushi rolls...aaaaaanyway....)

I reiterate. I HATE SPAM.

in my email inbox. and now here, on my blog.

I have experienced this before, when I first started blogging a few years back. I thought that somehow my meager little musings had captured a worldwide audience ~ and I was honored! I figured their broken English and strange wordings were just evidence of it being their second language and they certainly had a better grasp on my first language than I would ever on theirs!...however...as more and more bloggy friends went to spam filters, I figured out that these 'foreign fans' were no more than ads. attempts to lure unsuspecting victims into scams.

STUPID SCAMMING SPAM.

I'm so upset about this that I am posting this WITHOUT A PICTURE. because they have ruined my blogging fun.

yes, I know. just add a filter setting and move on, right? I'll try.

and this is my apology for the annoying spam filter that you will have to leap through before posting a comment. I find these soooooo annoying and really dislike having to go through them on other blogs--but I do it, because I know why they have to have them there. so, I hope it does not dissuade you, my lovely, loyal, blog reader from commenting. I would miss that. and the bad guys would win. we don't want that. I already feel like I've given them the win by changing my settings.

I got to see The Cos!

It was Jeff's birthday present, but I enjoyed it as much as he did! What a fun, relaxed, hilarious evening. Bill Cosby, at 72 years old, is just as endearing as I remember him being on the Cosby Show. You go, Dr. Huxtable :)

Because he loves cake...

...and because he needed SOME old age ribbing ;)

R.I.P. spring chicken

I think cracks about turning older are always better received when served on German Chocolate Cake.

Fast Food Rules

1. Don't eat fast food. (watch "Super Size Me" if you need further motivation that this 'food' is terrible for your body.)

2. Always double-check to make sure they get your order right in the drive-thru. (this rule is for those, like me, who despite watching "Super Size Me" and firmly believing that Rule #1 is what I should be listening to ~ still end up in the drive-thru, and get REALLY ticked off when an order is not correct! I mean, if I am going to fork over the $ for this stuff then every flipping, greasy, morsel had better make it into my bags! I am in the drive-thru, for goodness sake, you really think I would stoop to this level if I had the time to park, run inside with receipt in hand, wait for someone to notice me waving said receipt at counter, overhear conversation from the cook to the drive-thru bagger~

'You need a quarter-pounder, Derek?'

Derek, (checking his screen in front of him that obviously only show the current orders--not those that he short-changed a moment ago) 'Nope.'

'huh. weird. I got an extra.'

~~~~ huh. Weird. I didn't get mine. oh! oh! oh! do you think....?! ~ wow. this could all work out.)