My grandmother brought over some banana muffins she'd baked herself, and I learned that failing to properly mix in the salt and baking soda results in the end product tasting incredibly salty and bitter. According to her, the recipe said "Do not overmix" in all caps, but I don't think the author meant you shouldn't mix the ingredients...

Now that I finally have access to cocoa powder, I tried making another chocolate mug cake. It was a success.

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.