5-MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

One of the biggest challenges any mother faces is how to make her offerings attractive enough to wean the children away from unhealthy, over sugary treats available off the shelf which are full of artificial flavorings.  These sugary monsters are especially attractive to my kids (and yours too, I guess!) when they come home from school and their young bodies are craving for sugar to boost their flagging energy levels.  Try feeding them a 'healthy' snack that time and it could turn into a major power struggle!

For times like these, this healthy low fat 5-minute chocolate mug cake is indeed a life saver!  I serve this to my two sugar depleted boys with hot skim milk.  And it takes only 5 minutes (duh!).  The original recipe is from webMD.

Serves 2 hungry kids / 1 very hungry kid!!

Ingredients :
4 Tablespoons whole-wheat flour

3 tablespoons sugar (you can use light/dark brown sugar also)
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 egg /2 egg whites
3 tablespoons lowfat milk
1 tablespoon canola oil
2 tablespoons fat free sour cream (I used low fat curd which I hung for 5-10 minutes to take out extra water)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method:
1.  In microwave-safe coffee mug, combine whole-wheat flour, sugar, and cocoa.


2.  Pour egg/egg whites, lowfat milk, canola oil, hung curd/sour cream and vanilla into the mug with dry ingredients and mix well with fork.

3.  Place mug in center of microwave (preferably one that has a turn table) and cook on HIGH for 3 minutes. The cake will rise about an inch or so above the top of the mug (don’t worry it won’t drip down the sides of the mug).

4.  Let cake cool in mug for a few minutes.  Then turn mug upside down over a serving bowl (the cake should slide out fairly easily).

5.Cut cake in half for two salivating kids/ one starving kid!