Vegan Mug Cakes

VeganMofo Day 31: Today's the last day of October and the last day for this year's Vegan month of food. I totally enjoyed making and blogging about Vegan food. I tried some new dishes and some new ingredients and totally loved going vegan for the whole month. I have to say I'm enjoying my morning coffee with soy milk and my breakfast cereal with almond milk. Even though I didn't like the taste, texture or the smell of soy yogurt, it works great in biryanis and rawa dosas. I'm totally in love with Almond "mozarella" cheese that melted beautifully. So all in all it's been a great month of eating and I'm already looking forward to next year's edition.

To celebrate the last day of Veganmofo, I made 2 vegan microwave mug cakes; one with banana and the other with chocolate. Microwave cakes are perfect when you want to make something fast and don't want to deal with leftovers. Also you can make 2 different flavored cakes in matter of minutes, so when the urge to have something sweet strikes, make a mug cake and enjoy!!

Banana Microwave Mug Cake: Recipe adapted from here.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1/3 cup

Sugar -¼cup
Baking powder - ¼tsp

Ground Cinnamon - 1/8tsp
Salt - pinch
Banana - half of medium size banana, about ¼cup
Oil - 1tbsp
Soy milk - 2tbsp
Vanilla - ¼tsp
Toasted Almonds - for garnish

For Frosting: Enough for both the banana and chocolate mug cakes
Vegan Cream cheese - 3tbsp, softened
Powdered Sugar - 3tbsp
Soy milk - 2tsp
Vanilla - 2 drops

Method:

• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a mug. Add all the wet ingredients and mix well to combine. Make sure to mix from the bottom of the mug.
• Microwave on high for 2 - 2½ minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• For the Frosting: Mix all the ingredients until light and fluffy. Put the frosting in a small ziploc bag and pipe onto the cake. ENJOY!!

Chocolate Microwave Mug Cake:

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - ¼cup
Sugar - ¼cup
Unsweetened Cocoa powder - 2tbsp
Baking Powder - ¼tsp
Baking Soda - 1/8tsp
Salt - pinch

Vegetable Oil - 2tbsp
Soy milk - 2tbsp
Vanilla - ¼tsp

Method:

• Combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a mug.  Add all the wet ingredients and mix well to combine. Make sure to mix from the bottom of the mug.
• Microwave on high for 1½ - 2 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Enjoy as is or frost with the cream cheese frosting.