Banana Chocolate Chip Mug Cake
Banana Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is a super soft and moist cake with amazing banana flavor loaded with chocolate chips. This recipe is not only the best way to use up over-ripe bananas, but it’s possibly the best slice to go with your morning coffee! Every bite is pure heaven, I bet you will have a hard time stopping at just one slice!
Equipment
- OTG
- Mixing bowl
- 240 ml measuring cups and spoon set
- Spatula
- 240 ml Mug
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour (125 grams)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 nos banana mashed (½ cup)
- ½ cup brown sugar (90 grams)
- ¼ cup oil (60 ml)
- ½ teaspoon Ossoro french vanilla essence or 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 100 ml whole milk
- ½ tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice
- ¼ cup chocolate chips (40-50 grams)
Instructions
- Preheat oven @180° C for 10 minutes. Grease the mug with oil and keep aside.
- Peel the banana and mash them until smooth with a help of a fork.
- In a large mixing bowl add in the sugar, mashed banana, oil and vanilla essence. Stir the mixture until well combined.
- Add in the milk, vinegar and stir to combine.
- Sieve in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and gently fold to make a smooth batter.
- Take the chocolate chips and coat them wih ½ tsp flour.
- Stir in the chocolate chips reserving some.for topping and give a quick gentle mix.
- Pour the batter equally into the greased mug. Tap the mug for 3-4 times to release any air bubbles inside. Garnish with chocolate chips.
- Bake the cake at a preheated oven @180° C for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven and allow to stand for 10 minutes. Demould the cake and allow to cool down completely.
- Enjoy with tea and coffee or a dessert with chocolate sauce or wih your favourite frosting topping.
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Notes
- Always preheat oven before starting to bake.
- All ingredients should be at room temperature.
- Whole wheat flour can be substituted with all purpose flour or can bake with 50-50 of both.
- Brown sugar can be substituted with regular refined sugar.
- Try using overripe bananas.
- You can add nuts of your choice too.
- Oil can be substituted with butter.
- Use whole milk for extra richness, taste and texture.
- Vinegar can be substituted with lemon juice.
- Other healthier sweeteners like jaggery or cane sugar can be used.
- Every oven reacts differently so baking time may vary.
- Bake with both the filaments (rods) on.
- If you wish to bake with eggs, use 2 eggs and omit the baking soda and vinegar.