World's Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake

A couple years ago my wife brought home an exchange gift she received at one of her ladies club meetings. It was a large mug with a couple of plastic bags in it with cooking instructions for making a cake in the mug. It sat around ignored for a couple weeks being contemplated as a round file object. One evening I decided, 'What the heck, at the worst I'll have to take the glass tray out of the microwave and clean up a mess." After all if it doesn't explode or fill the microwave to the point of oozing out the door what harm could it be. Besides it might even be good. Turned out it was great.

So here it is a couple years later and I wanted a taste of it again. Since just the mixing and cooking directions were the only thing included with the pre-measured mix I was stuck. So off to a Goggle search. After searching for what seemed too long I found what you will see below. (Lord knows I couldn't find the source again to provide a link) I have yet to mix it up myself but had posted the recipe in three forums and emailed it to a couple people.

The big surprise to me was yesterday when my wife comes home from her temp job with a print out of what I had sent a few weeks ago. I haven't had the time to try out the recipe myself but several people on the forums where I posted it had and loved it. So either it was a coincidence that the recipe (the one the wife brought home was slightly different) is making the rounds at the same time or what I posted has spread like a virulent flu. Who knows? Just try it and enjoy.

World's Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake4 tablespoons Cake Flour (that's CAKE FLOUR, not self-rising)
(I've been told you can buy small quantity of cake flour in some supermarkets or look below for instructions from a Google search how to make a substitute for cake flour)
(edit once again to add that I've made it since with regular self-rising flour and it turned out pretty good also)
4 tablespoons Sugar
2 tablespoons Baking Cocoa
1 Egg
3 tablespoons Milk
3 tablespoons Olive Oil (Extra Virgin Light)
3 tablespoons Chocolate Chips (optional)
1 small dash of Vanilla flavoring
1 LARGE Coffee or Soup Mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips and vanilla flavoring, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
(check your microwave settings since most microwaves today exceed 1000 watts. Cooking differently will result in a too dry block of ummm yuck)
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if you prefer.
EAT! --(this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous.
I will admit to using BakersJoy spray (www.bakersjoy.com) to further prevent it sticking to the cup.

The dangerous part of this cake recipe? ... now you are only 5 minutes away from Chocolate Cake at any time of the day or night

Cake Flour SubstituteIngredients
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cornstarch

Directions
1-To make two cups of cake-and-pastry flour (cake flour), combine 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour with 1/4 cup cornstarch; proceed with your recipe.

2-The easiest way to do this substitution is to put 2 tbsp of cornstarch in the bottom of a 1-cup measuring cup, then fill the cup as usual with all-purpose flour and level top. Repeat process to get your two cups.

3-If you only need 1/2 cup of cake flour, put 1 tbsp cornstarch in bottom of 1/2 cup measuring cup, then fill and level as above.

This makes for a nice gift — mix up a batch of the dry ingredients in separate bags, include the instructions on how to cook it, put it all in a nice big fancy mug and wrap in decorative plastic wrap.

This all reminds of the story about a couple that were at a marriage seminar:
While attending a marriage seminar on communication, Tom and his wife Peg listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other."

He addressed the men, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?"

Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered, Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn't it?"

The rest of the story is not pleasant.