A couple of years ago, there was a fad about making single serve chocolate cake in the microwave, in a mug. Living alone in Australia at the time, I thought it was a great idea for a snack and messed around the recipe enough so that it was much more delicious than the original recipe, and I made it pretty often. Unfortunately, I never wrote down the recipe and since I got home attempts to make it have not gone well. Ingredients are different over here I guess.

But then I discovered a really great recipe for chocolate lava cake that I easily cut down to single serving, and though it takes 15 minutes instead of 5, it really is so much worth it. Even my very best microwave cake didn’t hold a candle to this. You can make it in an oven or toaster oven, in a mini cake pan, ramekin, or oven proof bowl. Try it!!

Gather your ingredients and your mixing bowl. Here we have 2 Tbsp butter, 2 Tbsp chocolate chips, 1/4 cup powdered sugar, one egg, and 1 1/2 Tbsp flour.

Melt the chocolate and butter, then mix in the powdered sugar. Then, separate your egg. All the yolk goes in, but only half the white. An average egg white is about 2 tablespoons, so you can either eyeball the half or just measure out 1 tbs. Mix the egg in, then add the flour and stir until smooth and combined. Pour into your baking vessel.

Bake at 425degrees for 10-13 minutes. Depending on how long you cook it, it can be anywhere from super gooey deliciousness to just moist. Then enjoy! It is great right out of the bowl or pan, but if you want to be fancy, unmold it onto a plate (It helps to butter your pan if you want to do this) and top it with a scoop of ice cream, whipped cream, maybe some fruit, whatever. It’s soo good! And now, even though it’s 11:30pm, I’m off to go make my own! Yum:-)