Instant Cake fix | Mug Cakes

Sometimes, you get one of those days when everything seems to be going wrong. You've missed an important deadline, or your pet fish died, or aliens have invaded. Or something like that. If you've had a day like that, you need cake. Right now. There's no time for messing around with scales or accuracy and definitely not washing up. You need a cake fix. And Mug Cakes are your saviour.

In the interests of research, we decided to try out a couple of recipes from the book 'Mug Cakes' by Mima Sinclair. It's a lovely little book, full of innovative recipes and pretty pictures. I particularly liked the troubleshooting section at the beginning that helps your avoid exploding cake fiascos.

As we were having a movie day, we went for the popcorn and ice cream cake. I think we can all agree it was a resounding success. Delicious and instantaneous.

Others went less well. Our mixed fruit and outs cake still tasted nice, but exploded in the microwave ever so slightly. A quick tip that we've learnt with hindsight: If you're using frozen berries, defrost them first!

Never mind, I guess we'll just have to practice by make some more. What a shame...

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