Bowl Cake - quick, easy, one-serving, gluten-free, vegan, can be refined sugar free, and super yummy!
This easy, quick, vegan, single-serving mug cake in a bowl is delicious! It can optionally be sweetened with banana or maple syrup to be free of refined sugar. It can be vanilla or chocolate. It makes a lovely snack, or a base for a great weekend breakfast!
Prep Time2 minutesmins
Cook Time1 minutemin
Total Time3 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 1bowl cake
Author: Valerie Mates
Ingredients
Bowl Cake:
2tablespoonsof flour or gluten-free flour - I use 1/2 tablespoon each of quinoa flourteff flour, garbanzo flour, and potato starch, but any gluten-free flour will do (no xanthan gum needed)
2tablespoonsalmond butter or other nut butter or seed butter
2tablespoonswater
1tablespoonmaple syrup OR sugar OR brown sugar OR honey OR half a freckly banana
1/4teaspoonbaking powderOR 1/12 teaspoon each of baking soda and cream of tartar
1/2teaspoonvanilla extractoptional
OPTIONAL CHOCOLATE VERSION: add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and another 1/2 tablespoon of sweetener
Optional Cashew Cream Topping - for each person use:
6tablespoonscashews
3-4tablespoonswater
pinchof cardamom
Optional Fruit Topping
Lots of fruit! Anything is good here: banana chunksblueberries, cut up peaches, plums, and/or chocolate chips
Instructions
Choose a microwave-safe cereal bowl.
If you are using half a banana for the sweetener, put it in the bowl and mash it with a fork.
Add the bowl-cake ingredients (but not the toppings), and stir until everything is well mixed.
"Bake" it in the microwave. Microwaves vary, so you may need to change the time, but in my microwave it cooks in 45 seconds if you didn't use a banana as the sweetener, or 50 seconds if you did.
If you are making cashew cream, put all of its ingredients in a tiny blender jar and blend until very smooth. If you don't have a tiny blender jar, you may need to double or triple the cashew cream ingredients in order to get it to blend. You can save the extra cashew cream for the next mug cake!
To serve, top the cake with the various toppings and dig in! If you use chocolate chips and they touch the warm cake, they will melt, which is especially delicious.
Tip: My kids and I like to line up several bowls and cook them "assembly line" style for a fancy weekend breakfast.