Cake and coffee

This morning I made up a batch of cake mix in the usual way. Normally I would simply pop the bowl straight into microwave and scoop it out to serve with custard.  This morning I decided to put it into one of my silicone cake thingies and treat it like a muffin.. I wish I had thought to put a paper liner in.. next time I will. But it tasted gorgeous if a little crumbly. I will knock ten or fifteen seconds off the cooking time when I make some more.  It would easily make six cupcakes.


I weighed my egg and it weighed 65 grams.  I always weigh the egg and use that weight as a guide when adding butter sugar and flour. I like to sift the flour in to add a little extra lightness.

Cream 65 grams each of butter and sugar into a bowl.  Crack the egg into the mix and add 65 grams of self raising flour.  I grated half a carrot into the mix just to add a bit of veg.. it could just as easily have been beetroot or courgette or you might even just leave it out.  I divided the mix into five cake moulds and then cooked them in the microwave for two minutes.  next time I will cook them for one minute and forty five seconds.