Gooey Chocolate Mug Cake That Chocolate Lovers Need in Their Life

This chocolate cake would be Willy Wonka approved.

Sweet but not too sweet. Rich. Satisfying. This mug cake will take care of your chocolate cravings, stat.

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Before we go any further, let’s answer this important question in the mug cake world…

Short answer:

No.

Longer answer:

Just like regular sized cakes baked in an oven, the center should be cooked.

Gooey in general means undercooked.

Not only does that not taste that great in my opinion, it’s also safer to fully cook your batter.

I will avert your eyes if you lick the batter…

I definitely grew up eating all the raw cookie dough and raw cake batter.

But then I opened my own bakery and had to take a food handling course and let me tell you, that ruined me for eating delicious gooey cake batter raw.

Now I get my gooey batter fix by eating Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream. 🙂

So are mug cakes supposed to be gooey – in general no.

But this gooey chocolate mug cake is specially made with a gooey chocolate center, and is fully cooked.

Food handling nerd-approved.

You’ll probably already have all these ingredients in your kitchen:

• Flour
• Cocoa powder
• Chocolate chips or chopped chocolate bar (sometimes I’ll put one or two of these in the center and they melt so well!)
• Sugar
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Melted butter or oil
• Milk (any kind you like to drink)

If you are a mug lover or mug collector, check out my favorite mugs under $25.

Many gooey cake recipes or lava cake recipes rely on undercooking the batter to give that gooey center.

Because I don’t think that tastes the best (and isn’t great for you), that’s not what we’re going to do here.

For this mug cake to have a gooey chocolate center, while still being cooked, we’re going to do something different.

Instead of undercooking the cake, we fill up the middle of the batter with chocolate ( I almost always have a bar or two of this in my pantry) and let that melt!

Doesn’t that sound more delicious?

We want this chocolate mug cake batter to be thick.

If it was a thin cake batter the chocolate chips in the center would sink down to the bottom instead of staying in the middle where we want them.

So don’t be alarmed if the batter seems quite thick – it’s supposed to be that way.

One thing we want to make sure we do is not over-microwave this mug cake.

If we do, the chocolate mug cake will not be as gooey in the center.

I found 1 minute to be the perfect amount of time for the mug I used and my microwave. It was cooked but still lovely and melty in the center!

Related recipe: Quick chocolate chip cookie in a mug.

Let’s make this mug cake!

Check out this popular chocolate mug brownie recipe – it’s so chocolately and rich!