Wonderful, but Dangerous Cake Recipes for 2

A neighbor gave me this recipe. It is amazing! This is what her recipe cautioned:

"And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we're all only five minutes from...(delicious) cake any time of the day or night!!!"

That is a problem! I personally have only had this cake recipe in my hands for 1 week, but I've made it 4 times! So here's my caution: try this recipe at your own risk!

Fortunately, I have modified it a bit for you so it's not AS BAD for you as it was, but just because it has some healthy ingredients, doesn't mean you should make it for yourself every day. I will include a few variations that I've made from the original chocolate cake -the original was the same as #1, it just used white flour. My favorite is still the chocolate with whole-grain flour, but the others are good too. This is a gluten-free recipe if you use gluten-free flour.

Get creative! Try a variation! This is an easy recipe to have fun with because it uses so little ingredients. If you mess up, you're not out by much. If you do make a good one, will you post the recipe as a comment for all of us to enjoy?

1. Dangerous Chocolate Cake-In-A-Mug
1 Cocoa Mug
4 Tbsp. whole-grain flour (try spelt, barley, oat, brown rice, wheat, or a combination)
4 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. cocoa
1 Egg
3 Tbsp. milk
3 Tbsp. oil
1/4 tsp. vanilla
dash of salt
3 Tbsp. chocolate chips (optional)

Add dry ingredients into a mug, mix well with a fork. Add egg, mix thoroughly. Pour in milk, oil, vanilla, and salt and mix well. Add chips (optional). Put mug in microwave, and cook for three minutes on full power (1000 Watts).

Cake will rise over top of mug, do not be alarmed! Allow to cool a little; tip onto a plate if desired. Eat!! (This will serve two if you are feeling slightly virtuous).

2. Dangerous Spice Cake-In-A-Mug
1 Cocoa Mug
4 Tbsp. whole-grain flour (try spelt, barley, oat, brown rice, wheat, or combination of a few)
4 Tbsp. sugar
1 Egg
3 Tbsp. milk
3 Tbsp. oil
1/4 tsp. vanilla
dash of salt
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
1/16 tsp. allspice

Add dry ingredients into a mug, mix well with a fork. Add egg, mix thoroughly. Pour in milk, oil, vanilla, salt and spices and mix well. Add chips (optional). Put mug in microwave, and cook for three minutes on full power (1000 Watts).

3. Dangerous Pumpkin Cake-In-A-Mug
1 Cocoa Mug
4 Tbsp. Brown Rice flour
4 Tbsp. sugar
1 Egg
3 Tbsp. milk
3 Tbsp. pumpkin Puree
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice (or 1/8 tsp. each of cinnamon and nutmeg)

Add dry ingredients into a mug, mix well with a fork. Add egg, mix thoroughly. Pour in milk, oil, vanilla, salt and spices and mix well. Add chips (optional). Put mug in microwave, and cook for three minutes on full power (1000 Watts). This is a gluten-free, low-sodium, low-fat recipe. It is good, but tastes more like a pumpkin muffin than a cake.