Recipe: Matcha Mug Cake

By Melissa Slaughter

You’ve got leftover matcha from making all those holiday cupcakes. Now what to do with it? After reading this hilarious Reductress piece, you should make yourself a mug cake!

What’s a mug cake, you ask? It’s the laziest cake you can imagine. Mix all your ingredients in a coffee mug and microwave it. Seriously, that’s it. Nothing spectacular or time consuming. Just pop that sucker in the microwave, and baby, you’ve got a mug cake!

I’ve adapted this recipe from here, so the cake is more like a dense bread. Which make me feel way better about eating mug cake for breakfast. You can also sprinkle matcha on top, or add syrup like I did. #LazySunday. #HappyStPaddysDay

You've had a long day. Make yourself a mug cake!

Ingredients

1 Tbsp Coconut Oil (melted)
1 Tbsp Milk
room temperature 1 egg
1/2 Tbsp Matcha
2.5 Tbsp Flour
1/8 tsp Baking Soda
pinch of salt
1.5 Tbsp Sugar
1/8 tsp Vanilla Extract

Instructions

1. Mix matcha powder, flour, baking soda, salt and sugar in your favorite mug.

2. In a separate cup, whisk oil, milk, vanilla extract, and egg together with a fork.

3. Create a well in the dry ingredients, add the wet, and mix until smooth.

4. Microwave for 1 ½ minutes. Let sit for one more minute before eating!

*Optional- Sprinkle some matcha on top!

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 2 mins

Total time: 7 mins

Yield: 1

Melissa Slaughter has lived in all four time zones in the contiguous United States. A former actor in Seattle, WA, Melissa now resides in NYC as a content creator. She is the producer of the We're Not All Ninjas podcast, which she also hosts with fellow Hapa Mag writer, Alex Chester. Melissa also writes for online blogs Nerdophiles and On Stage Blog. Find her @NotAllNinjasPod.