I need all the comfort I can get right now. May that be going to bed before 9 every night, calling my mom every day, or eating “cake” for breakfast. That’s right. Cake. Really though this kind of cake is just a pancake with out the “pan”. Some ingredients, just cooked a different way. Full of good for you morning fuel with whole grain flours, flavor, and some protein “frosting” to tie it all together. Plus this cake has the addition of omega 3s from the flax egg used. I’d say this cake is a “sin” in disguise. I dare you, tell someone you had chocolate cake for breakfast (plus frosting), tell a friend who is trying to lose weight, and watch their eyes go wide. Don’t keep them hanging for long though. Tell them you know the secret. Everyone can have their cake and eat it too!
Back to the comfort aspect for a second. I first made this cake a few weeks before I left home and then I made it again on my last morning at home. Then I made it again my first weekend (last Saturday) in my dorm. I was going to make pancakes, but I was scared and just didn’t feel like going all the way down to the kitchen that morning. So the microwave in my dorm room would suffice. But it was okay since this cake makes me and my tummy so happy.
Buckwheat is my favorite flour, well maybe my favorite grain. I just love the robust earthy taste. It just works so well in gluten-free vegan baking and cooking. So homey and so comforting. Then add chocolate to that and I could just fall on the floor right there, in pure happiness. Which happens all the time 😉
I was so nervous making this the first time because I had no idea how long to microwave it for. I wanted it to cook and be cake (not mush), but I also didn’t want it to blow-up and overflow. Plus I wasn’t using a mug. I used a ramekin. Ramekins are just prettier and work just as well. Obviously on my first try, I had a success and I knew this would be a recipe I would be making again, and again, and again, and finally sharing with you on the blog. The food gods always seem to be on my side 😉
For my pancakes I usually use a fruit or veggie puree. I never use flax or chia eggs. But I thought using one here would be my best bet for getting a perfect cake rise. It is so cool how foods can mimic other foods. Like a flax egg really acting as a real egg. Except a lot better, healthier, and cruelty-free! I’m going to have to try a flax egg in a pancake recipe now…
Another fun thing about this cake is that it is so quick to make. Really just one minute in the microwave and BAM! You have chocolate decadence. So if you wake-up feeling tired and sad (like I did on Saturday), and you don’t feel like going through the whole pancake process, just make a mug cake and you will get the same satisfaction. You could also make it for dessert too. If you want a super healthy cake before bad, just whip this bad boy up and you good to go.
Chocolate Buckwheat Mug Cake
Ingredients: (serves 1)
+ 1 TB Milled Flax Seed
+ 1/4 Cup Buckwheat Flour
+ 1 TB Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
+ 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
+ 1/4 Tsp Baking Soda
+ 1/4 Tsp Cinnamon (optional)
+ 8 Drops of Liquid Stevia
+ 3 TB Water
Chocolate Protein Frosting:
+ 1 TB Chocolate Protein Powder
+ 2 TB Water
Directions:
+ Prepare you flax egg in the mug or ramekin you will be using. Combine the tablespoon of flax and 3 tablespoons of water in the mug and let sit for 5 minutes.
+ In the meantime measure out your other ingredients. When the flax egg is ready, add all you ingredients except the water and give it a quick stir. Then add the 3 table spoons of water. Stir to get a think cake batter mixture.
+ Place the mug in the microwave and cook on high for 1 minute. Depending on the power of you microwave you may need 30 seconds more.
+ While that is quickly cooking, combine your protein powder and water to make you frosting. When the cake is done, take it out (carefully! It is hot!), and top with the frosting.
The last step is to do this. DIG IN! Hello chocolate cake! If you have trouble getting up in the morning, the allure of chocolate cake just has to get you out of bed! Come on! CAKE! Cake that you can feel good about eating too. I see many mug cake variations in my college future. I already have one in the to-share recipe file, but I have tons of other versions brewing. Breakfast kids, breakfast is the BEST meal of the day and I don’t want to hear otherwise 😉 Now go make some cake!
So tell me:
+ Everyone has comfort foods, what are yours? Mine are any breakfast food I make, potatoes with coconut butter, and apples with nut butter! (Comfort foods don’t have to be unhealthy!)
+ What were your go-to breakfast in college? I hope it wasn’t the stereotypical cold pizza!
Side note: You know what’s nice to have in your dorm? A mini coffee maker. Not a Keurig, but a good old coffee pot with a reusable filter! Just pour in water, add ground coffee and brew!
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i wish i’d seen this before i had breakfast! haha. oh well, next weekend 🙂 it’s so simple! and delicious looking!! 🙂
Girl, this is a MONDAY kinda breakfast! Make it tomorrow!
I love to read your posts and recipes. The photos you post make me really hungry. Thanks for sharing this recipe
Thanks!
Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂 I can’t wait to see what you share this week! Its LIVE!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com
Thanks Cindy.
Buckwheat has got to be one of my all time favorite flours! I love this recipe, though I’d probably have to multiply the ingredients x6… 😉 Thanks for sharing it at Savoring Saturdays, Rebecca!
Same here! Really it is the best and always my go to!
I think it’s great you are continuing to eat healthy even at college. Maybe you can teach the kid with the pop and the pop tart something. I’m sure you had to making some kind of yuck face be it on the outside or inside. Thanks for sharing once again on Real Food Fridays.
Hahahaha, you saw my tweet 😉 I was so rolling my eyes 😉
Yes, I did and was appalled. Though I shouldn’t be I was there at one time.
Love mug cakes!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
They are so quick and so yummy! Thank you 🙂
Love the healthy ingredients in this dessert and I am fortunate I have all the ingredients on hand to try it. Yum.
Thank you for coming by to Foodie Fridays and sharing this week. Hope to see you again on Thursday.
Blessings,
Shari
Yay! I hope you do! 🙂
Thanks for linking up Rebecca! Meatless Monday lovers will always enjoy chocolate cake 🙂 Glad you are finding ways to enjoy your foods while still at college. What is the cafeteria like there? I actually miss eating in cafeterias….so much to choose from!
I can only get limited things there. I just place special orders for either chicken, fish, and veggies for dinner. Otherwise I am on my own…or Whole Foods 😉
Stopping by from the Meatless Monday linkup. I LOVE mug cakes, and this one looks particularly yummy (and healthy!). Thanks for sharing 🙂
The only cake I’d ever eat 😉 Has to be healthy!
I love making mug cakes. Just enough for me to taste, without *accidentally* eating an entire cake. And I don’t have to turn the oven on! I love that you made it vegan too.
Always enough for one and always vegan is my motto 😉
What a super delicious-sounding breakfast. I could use some comfort myself and this will be perfect =)
I hope things are going well in your new place (I’m sure they are ’cause you rock!)
Thanks for sharing this decadent, yet healthful & awesome breakfast with us at Healthy Vegan Fridays. I have pinned it to our Pinterest Board.
Well this will bring you some comfort 😉
Thanks Kimmy!
ooh that looks good. I haven’t done much with Buckwheat flour yet.
You should, its great!
I love microwave cakes. I’ve quit making them as much since it’s so hot, but fall is coming and i know they’ll be in the nightly rotation soon! 🙂
I hope so! The temperature should never deter your from making cake 😉 Its just too good!
I don’t eat a lot of wheat (just every so often) so love an alternative recipe. I’ve never tried buckwheat but must. This looks yummy! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
You will love buckwheat! It’s fabulous 🙂
Hi Rebecca,
Looks absolutely delicious. I also love buckwheat flour. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays blog hop. Have a healthy happy weekend! Will pin & twitt.
It’s the best! Thanks Marla!
Delicious and healthy…perfect! And I love that it is so quick to make too!
Cake whenever you want it 😉
And THAT is a great thing!
I am def going to try this! I love buckwheat flour, too. I use it all the time. I love the slight grainy-ness it adds. Earthy, yummy– love that it’s the only flour you used!
That’s the word! Earthy!
I never know how to describe it! But that fits! O how I love that taste and soft texture. It is my perfect flour.
I love this! I’ve been looking for a vegan, GF mug cake recipe forever–thanks so much!
Since I’m living in a vegan co-op this year, I have access to a full kitchen (which is wonderful). I’ve been making green smoothies every morning for breakfast, in an effort to keep my body temperature as low as possible! Once the snow comes, though, I’ll probably switch over to buckwheat flake porridge or waffles. Yeah, I definitely brought my waffle iron to school with me! 🙂
And coffee. Can’t have breakfast without coffee. My little coffeepot is a gift from the gods.
Have a wonderful day! 🙂
Happy to be of service 😉
I am going to tell my mom to bring the waffle iron down when she comes to visit in October!
I’ve been overdoing it with the coffee and my tummy is not so happy, haha! But o it is so good!
I love this idea, cake in a mug whenever you fancy a snack. It looks great as well
I wonder who got this mug cake craze started…they were genius!
That sounds awesome! And I love the new look of your blog!
Thanks Jo-Lynne!
I haven’t made a mug cake in so long… this needs to change with this chocolate buckwheat cake!!
Ah! Yes it does! I know I can’t believe it tooke this long to try it out! I seriously was missing out on one grand food experience, haha!
a comfort food i love is good ol’ fashioned mac and cheese!
That seems to be a love among many 😉
yum!! we love making mini cakes like this 😉
Haha, well I’m totally addicted now! 😉
YUM CAKE FOR BREAKFAST! I actually have never hard buckwheat flour…do you buy it as a flour or make your own? AND my favorite foods are carbs and chocolate and peanut butter or Italian cheesy food but I rarely eat out of comfort, if anything I stress eat and then I wan CRUNCHY goodness !
As for your frosting, how do you make it thick? My powder comes out weird! Do you use whey?!
WHAT!? That makes me so sad :'( Buckwheat IS the BEST flour out there anywhere. I love Arrowhead Mill’s Organic Buckwheat Flour. It is so beautiful and soft!
Lol, you know I don’t eat dairy! My go to protein powders are obviously Plant Fusion and Nuzest.
This is the perfect single serving cake. With this, I won’t be tempted to eat the whole cake. 🙂
Well since its single serve, you will be eating the whole thing 😉
Looks delicious! My go to food in college is oatmeal. I used to eat oatmeal almost every morning in high school & eating it in college just brings back the familiarity of it 🙂 Gotta love oatmeal
Haha, I had oatmeal this morning with a huge spoonful of cinnamon raisin PB swirled in! So yummy 😉
That mug cake looks really good!
Macaroni and cheese, the gooey/creamy kind is one of my favorite comfort foods, along with dark chocolate covered berries (kind of healthy, right?). When I’m really stressed or sad, peppermint tea is the best thing.
The best thing my mom got me for college was a little 6-cup brewer, it was the kind that brewed the coffee and kept it inside and you just dispensed it into the mug, it was probably a precursor to Keurig-style coffee. I lived with 3 girls and got up at 5am for work. I was the only one who drank coffee, but they all loved how it made our apartment smell.
Ah! I drink peppermint tea every night! I can’t sleep otherwise!
Haha yea! I’m the one up at 4:30, but for some reason the coffee maker doesn’t really emit the wonderful aroma :/
Ooooh, this recipe sounds so yummy. I’m gluten free as of recently and I’ve yet to have a GOOD gf cake. I’m totally going to try this.
Well this is some GOOD cake! You’ll love it!
Yum! I have a ton of buckwheat flour at home from a clearance sale so I definitely will be making this!
Yea! Put that goodness to good use 😉
yum! this looks delicious. i’ve never given a mug cake a try, i’ll have to remedy that!
Please do! You won’t be disappointed! I know I waited to long to give it a try, haha 😉
Sometimes we just need some cake to cheer up! I hope your sad mood is remedied – the first few weeks are really hard but I promise you will soon be wishing your mom would call less 😉
No matter what breakfast always remedies my mood 😉
Eh no I will always call her! It hurts my soul to go a day without calling her, haha!
Looks delish Rebecca! I also love me a good ol’ coffee maker! My go to comfort food is definitely dipping dried fruit (specifically figs, dates) in almond butter or a tropical trail mix! Yum! Leaving home is hard, but, enjoy the college life experience! Xoxo
Mmm! I have actually been really loving figs lately! I am normally not a dried fruit person, but they are so good in oatmeal!
Thanks Yaitza 🙂
I love buckwheat mug cakes!!! YUM!
Buckwheat seriously is the best!
Love this healthy mug cake – looks so decadent, I don’t think anyone would know it’s packed with healthy ingredients!
Right!? Add a little cocoa and you can make any healthy dish look sinful 😉
I love it when I see you’re sharing a recipe. I can count on it being yummy and gluten free! No tweaking needed 🙂
Thanks Jill!
You got that right! Who ever said cooking gluten-free is hard? Haha 😉