I love cake.
I really love cake.

My favourite is a dark , rich , chocolate cake with ganache.

Let’s be reasonable though. I am not spending my time or money blending double cream with bitter chocolate for my kids , more often it’s a box cake with a dollop of frosting. Sprinkles too, if they are lucky.

Recently I’ve been messing with box cakes , adding real butter instead of oil, an extra egg and milk in place of water. Giving a more bakers flavour.

 

I wanted something simpler. Last night I mixed a box of angel cake with a box of devils food cake to make a mug cake mixture. The angel food cake has egg in the mix,  and so this is why chemically this works.

4 tablespoons of the mix with 2 tablespoons of water , in a mug , stirred , and into the microwave for one minute.

Cake.

Not the best cake ever , but perfectly acceptable for 3 small children for an after school treat.

I’ll save the fancy cake for birthdays, and for me.