5-Minute Mug Cake: Chocolate Peppermint Cake Recipe

What more delicious holiday flavor can you get this time of year than Chocolate Peppermint? Oh, the tastebuds recall the delicious melting of York peppermint patties and chocolate covered candy canes. This scrumptious cake produces the same brilliant flavor, and only takes 5 minutes to make!

 

 

Chocolate Peppermint Mug Cake:

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup (45g) semiswete chocolate chips
• 3 tbsp (45ml) fat-free milk
• 3 tbsp(22.5g) all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tbsp (7.5ml) vegetable oil
• 2 peppermint candies, finely crushed

Topping, optional (serves 2)

• 1/2 cup (120ml) whipping cream
• 2 tsp granulated sugar

Cooking Instructions:

1. Combine all chocolate chips and milk in an oversized microwave-safe mug. Microwave for about 40 seconds. Mix with a small whisk until chocolate is completely melted.
2. Add flower, baking powder, and oil and whisk until batter is smooth. Stir in crushed peppermints.
3. Cook in microwave for about 1 minute. If cake is not done, heat an additional 15 seconds. Let cake cool a few minutes. Cake is best consumed while still warm or within a few hours of it being cooked.
4. If desired, place the whipping cream and sugar in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer (or use a handheld mixer), and mix on high speed until peaks form. Top the cake with whipped cream. Cake is best consumed while still warm or within a few hours of being cooked.

Stumped on gifts for friends this holiday season? Gather ingredients in a holiday themed clear plastic bag. Find a cute mug, drop the bag full of yummy ingredients inside, and gift a 5-minute delicious dessert to a dear friend. Include the 5-Minute Mug Cake book to ramp up the gift.

About 5-Minute Mug Cakes:

Don’t think you can make a warm, gooey homemade cake in under five minutes? Think again! 5-Minute Mug Cakes is the perfect gift for anyone with a mug, a microwave, and a dream. With nearly 100 delectable recipes for cakes, brownies, cookies, and more, every single recipe can be made in an ordinary, microwave-safe mug in just a few minutes. Author Jennifer Lee, creator of Kirbie’s Cravings, guides you through simple recipe favorites like:

-2-Ingredient Flourless Nutella® Cake

-Salted-Caramel Chocolate Cake

-Funfetti Cake

-S’mores Cake

-Strawberries & Cream Cake

-Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

-Red Velvet Cake

-Lemon Dream Cake and dozens more!

Featuring special chapters like Skinny Mug Cakes (all under 200 calories!), Gluten-Free Mug Cakes, and even 4-Ingredients-or-Less Mug Cakes, there is no excuse for eating tasteless, packaged desserts anymore. Every recipe in 5-Minute Mug Cakes is simple, fast, and delicious. The best part? If you mix your ingredients right in your favorite mug, there is next to no cleanup!

Apple Cinnamon Damper Recipe (World Class Cakes)

The awesome cooks/chefs/bakers over at Quarry Spoon made an Apple Cinnamon Damper today from ‘World Class Cakes’! Doesn’t it look delicious?!

Photos from the Kansas City Star’s write up of Ms. American Pie author Beth Howard.

Read the article on the Kansas City Star.

Check out the Ms. American Pie book on the Race Point web site.

A spread from Orwashers Artisan Bread: 100 Years of Techniques and Recipes by Keith Cohen. Includes Recipes for Artisan Wine and Beer Breads.    

A recipe from Orwashers Artisan Bread.

In 2007, Keith Cohen purchased New York’s Orwasher’s Bakery, listed among the top ten bakeries in America. He launched a new line of Artisan Wine Breads in 2009 under the brand name Oven Artisans. Cohen created his new breads with a wine grape starter in collaboration with Channing Daughters Vineyard in Long Island. The technique used dates all the way back to ancient Egypt, where bakers who were baking bread in the same facility as wine was being fermented discovered that the natural yeast in the air from the fermenting grapes would leaven the bread and give it special flavor. In 2010, Cohen premiered his beer bread—a chewy, dark-hued creation with a nutty, robust flavor that comes from the Otis Stout from Sixpoint Craft Ales that’s mixed into the dough. Orwashers Artisan Bread features the techniques used as well as the recipes for Orwasher’s most famous breads adapted specifically to facilitate home baking.