Further adventures in mug desserts

[betweensunandmoon]

I'm not very good at this yet. :P

The lemon-poppyseed cake was a little too buttery and not lemony enough. The chocolate-chip-cookie-in-a-mug was on the dry side, but that wasn't the worst part. I used dark chocolate chips because that was the only kind we had, and it didn't work. Dark chocolate is fine on its own and does a nice job of balancing out extra-sweet things like caramel, but it's not meant to replace milk chocolate.

The snickerdoodle cake tasted precisely as it should. Trouble is, I'm not overly fond of cinnamon.

Comments

[igenlode]

You can't use dark chocolate as sweetening on its own (even if it is marginally sweeter than raw cocoa powder). But chocolate chips as flavouring in an existing sweet mixture should work.

I've just been looking at my page of mug cake recipes, and the variations using dark chocolate don't include any more sugar than the ones using the same quantity of milk chocolate... the 'dark chocolate chip' recipe used the chocolate chips in addition to the standard amount of melted milk chocolate, though