Cake in a cup

Who would not love a nice warm chocolate cake in less then 5 minutes? No one!!!! There are many versions of the cake in a mug recipe. This is mine that is just as easy, tasty and low calorie compared to many of the other ones. 

Ingredients:

1/4 cup flour

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp hershey's cocoa

2 tbsp skim milk

1 egg

splash vanilla

1/2 cup applesauce

Whip the egg up in your mug.

Add 1 tbsp cocoa

Add 1 tbsp sugar

Add 1/4 cup flour. 

Add 1/2 cup applesauce. Its a whole small individual container. Add 2 tbsp milk and dash of vanilla. 

Mix up and cook on high in mircowave 2 1/2 - 3 minutes.

Cake is done!!! Yum

Now take a bite and savor cake in less then 5 minutes. And savor that:

Enjoy!! I am inputting most of my recipes into here  http://caloriecount.about.com Awesome website!

Southern Tea Cakes

Anyone knows what is better than a Saturday afternoon tea party with your girls??? Answer is nothing!! We wanted to have a super girlie day and I spent Friday night looking for the perfect desert for a tea party with a 2 and a 5 year old.

The perfect desert is a Southern Tea Cake.

What is a Southern Tea Cake? So glad you asked!! It is a soft vanilla like cookie/cake that has a very light flavor  of vanilla. It looks like a sugar cookie, rises like a whoopie pie and is amazingly light and easy to make.

I used Paula Deen's recipe from http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/southern-tea-cakes-recipe/index.html and only changed a few things such sugar amount and used buttermilk powder and water in place of buttermilk. I also changed the order to mix it in and the way to incorporate the last cup of flour. I enjoy a more hands on way of making dough!!!!


Southern Tea Cakes

Ingredients

4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk (I use 2 tablespoons buttermilk powder and 1/2 water)
2 sticks of butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350.

In a bowl mix butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk mixture, and vanilla. Add baking soda and baking powder. Add 1 cup of flour at a time until the 3rd cup. Then turn your dough onto a floured surface and mix in the rest of the flour 1/4 cup at a time with hands. Dough should be soft but not stick to you. Mine took 3 3/4 of flour all together.

Divide dough into two sections. Flatten by hand and use a round cookie cutter to cut out your tea cakes. I have a set of plastic cutters that the dough went right to the top, about 1/4 of an inch thick. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 12 minutes.

Cool on cooking rack. They will rise up and look like little cakes.

Optional: I took 1 tablespoon of water, a few drops of vanilla and 1/3 cup of powdered sugar and mixed a quick glaze. I drizzled this over 12 cookies and then topped with some pretty pink sugar sprinkles.

I do not have step by step pictures but I do have the end result!! Any questions let me know!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

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Self Frosting Cake

Here is a great recipe for you!!!! I bet others have come up with this idea but here is mine that I came up on a whim when I was tired and wanted cake. I had no powdered sugar left so this was my solution!!!

First whip up any white or yellow cake. I used a pound cake recipe that my family has used for years. Any white or yellow cake recipe will work.

Then place 1 1/2 cups of batter in a well (and I mean well) greased bundt pan. Then using Hershey's syrup pour some on top of your batter. I did about 7 passes around the pan.

Then add the rest of your cake batter and bake for directed time and add 5 minutes.

It should look like this when fully cooked. Make sure to tap the cake to make sure its done.

Let cool about 10 minutes and carefully flip onto a cooling rack. Hope you greased it well!!

Viola!!!! Self frosted cake!! Enjoy

 I sure did!