9 Mug Cakes That Cook in 3 Minutes or Less

What could be better than a single-serve, freshly-made cake in your favourite flavour, that cooks in three minutes?

We’

ve compiled a selection of some of our favourite instant mug cakes from around the web. Will you be making any of these?

Chocolate and Peanut Butter

Oh my goodness. A chocolate and peanut butter mug cake with a gooey centre? And chocolate chips? Sounds like a plan. This cake was created by Samantha from the blog Five Heart Home. No complicated ingredients - you just mix it all up in the mug and microwave for about one minute. We’

ll be forever grateful.

Lemon

This lemon mug cake comes from the food blog Love Life Liz. It’s flavoured with both the zest and juice of a lemon and cooks in 90 seconds. For when you don’t need the indulgence of chocolate but something refreshing and zesty. Sprinkle with a dusting of icing sugar and eat it straight from the mug. Perfect for summer, too.

Salted Caramel

Our life is complete. A salted caramel mug cake that you just stir together in the mug and microwave for 2 minutes. Swah, who writes the blog Love Swah created this cake, which has a hidden gooey salted caramel centre. She suggests that while you could top it with ice cream or whipped cream, it’s just as good as it is, straight from the microwave.

Clean Eating Chocolate

Chocolate and healthy. We like the sound of that. Tiffany, from the blog The Gracious Pantry developed this recipe as a healthier alternative to the sugar-laden chocolate mug cakes that were doing the rounds. Her clean eating chocolate mug cake contains coconut sugar - considered to be one of the healthier sugars - as well as whole wheat flour. Depending on your microwave, you’ll also get it cooked in around 3 minutes.

Cinnamon and Banana

You don’t need to say goodbye to mug cakes just because you’re on a paleo, gluten-free or vegan diet. This banana and cinnamon mug cake from the blog Delighted Momma uses ground almonds as the base, and it’

s sweetened with coconut sugar. Really easy to make, you just mix the ingredients in the mug and microwave for 2 minutes.

Lemon and Blueberry

You can use fresh or frozen blueberries for this lemon and blueberry mug cake, which is also dairy, gluten and nut free. It was created by Carolyn, who writes the blog All Day I Dream About Food, specialising in low-carb and gluten-free recipes.

Gingerbread

This gingerbread mug cake from the blog Just Putzing Around the Kitchen cooks in the microwave in about 2 minutes. It also doesn’t contain eggs. And with warm, spicy flavours like nutmeg, cinnamon and of course ginger - it’

s definitely not just for Christmas time.

Coffee and Chocolate

Coffee. Chocolate. Their aromatic, roasty flavours go together beautifully. So it’

s a good job Jess from the blog The Hungry Hedgehog created this coffee and chocolate mug cake - great to have up your sleeve for an emergency pudding. The mug cake cooks in about 1 minute, and she suggests giving it a sprinkle with icing sugar before serving. As well as being gorgeously indulgent, this mug cake is posh enough to serve when you have guests round for dinner, too.

Vanilla Bean

Another beautiful mug cake from The Hungry Hedgehog - a vanilla bean mug cake with a swirl of cream cheese-based icing on top. It’s the sort of cake you can whip up with what you’ve probably got in your cupboards - so no special shopping required. The best part though? It cooks in just 1 minute.

Fancy trying any of these? Which are your favourites?