Ginger's North Pole Kitchen
Gingerbread Mug Cake
A tiny gingerbread house you eat with a spoon, made in a mug.
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Recipe at a glance
⏱ 10 min, including cooling🍪 Serves 1 (one mug)🔥 MICROWAVE⭐ Easy
- Prep time
- 5 minutes
- Cook time
- About 1½ minutes
- Serves
- One mug
- Chill / rest
- Cool 2–3 minutes in the mug
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Occasion
- Christmas
From Ginger's pantry
You'll need
- 4 tbsp flour
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp ground ginger + a pinch of cinnamon
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp oil or melted butter
- 1 tsp molasses (or a little extra brown sugar)
Aprons on
Let's make it
Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, ginger and cinnamon in a mug. Mix.
Add the milk, oil and molasses. Stir until smooth.
Grown-up: microwave about 1½ minutes, until just set on top.
Grown-up: lift the hot mug out. Let it cool a few minutes.
Eat it straight from the mug with a spoon. Builder's privilege.
Cooking options
📡 Microwave — Ginger's Speedy Method
About 1½ minutes, until just set on top. The mug comes out HOT — a grown-up lifts it out and lets it cool a few minutes.
Contains: Milk, Wheat. Always check the labels on your own ingredients with a grown-up.
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