Have your cake and chocolate for breakfast! This easy microwave Chocolate Buckwheat Mug Cake is gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Under 90 seconds for a fully cooked and frosted mug cake with protein frosting! No oil or sugar needed and a perfect single-serve recipe to tame any chocolate craving, any time of day!
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 without 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 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 like a real egg. Except for 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're good to go.
Chocolate Buckwheat Mug Cake with Protein Frosting
Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Buckwheat Mug Cake (Allergy-Free)
Have your cake and chocolate for breakfast! This easy microwave Chocolate Buckwheat Mug Cake is gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Under 90 seconds for a fully cooked and frosted mug cake with protein frosting! No oil or sugar needed and a perfect single-serve recipe to tame any chocolate craving, any time of day!
- Prep Time: 1 min
- Cook Time: 1 min
- Total Time: 2 mins
- Yield: 1 1x
- Category: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- For the Cake:
- ¼ Cup Buckwheat Flour
- 2 TB Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 TB Milled Flax Seed (+ 3 TB Water)
- ½ Tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ Tsp Cinnamon (optional)
- Liquid Stevia (sweetened to taste)
- 3 TB Water
- For the Chocolate Protein Frosting:
- 1 TB Chocolate Plant-Based Protein Powder
- 2 TB Water
- Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips (optional)
- Allergy-Free Natural Sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Grease a microwave-safe mug or small ramekin.
- Prepare the flax egg in the mug or ramekin you will be using, by mixing together the tablespoon of flax and 3 tablespoons of water, letting it sit for 3-5 minutes.
- Add in the buckwheat flour, cocoa, baking powder, optional cinnamon, sweetener, and the additional 3 tablespoons of water.
- Mix everything together to form a smooth, thick, cake batter.
- Microwave the cake on high for 1 minute. If the batter needs more time, add another 10-30 second interval.
- To make the frosting, simply mix together the protein powder with the water until you get your desired consistency.
- Top the cooked mug cake with the frosting and top with optional mini chocolate chips and sprinkles.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
The last step is to do this. DIG IN! 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 was your go-to breakfast in college? I hope it wasn't the stereotypical cold pizza!
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Claire Rocks
Oh my! i am going to have to give this a try! amazing!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Enjoy; it's a classic!
Anita Faulkner - Brazen Mummy Writes
Amazing! This sounds too good to be true - can't wait to give it a go! All of the fun with none of the nasties. Perfect.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Has been a longtime fav for many!
masala girl
i wish i'd seen this before i had breakfast! haha. oh well, next weekend 🙂 it's so simple! and delicious looking!! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Girl, this is a MONDAY kinda breakfast! Make it tomorrow!
Miller
I love to read your posts and recipes. The photos you post make me really hungry. Thanks for sharing this recipe
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks!
Cindy (Vegetarian Mamma)
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Cindy.
Raia
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Same here! Really it is the best and always my go to!
Joyce @ It's Your Life
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahahaha, you saw my tweet 😉 I was so rolling my eyes 😉
Joyce @ It's Your Life
Yes, I did and was appalled. Though I shouldn't be I was there at one time.
Stephanie
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
They are so quick and so yummy! Thank you 🙂
Pure Grace Farms
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Yay! I hope you do! 🙂
Tina Muir
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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 😉
Nicole @ Fitful Focus
Stopping by from the Meatless Monday linkup. I LOVE mug cakes, and this one looks particularly yummy (and healthy!). Thanks for sharing 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
The only cake I'd ever eat 😉 Has to be healthy!
Brianna @Flippin' Delicious
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Always enough for one and always vegan is my motto 😉
kimmythevegan
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Well this will bring you some comfort 😉
Thanks Kimmy!
Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner
ooh that looks good. I haven’t done much with Buckwheat flour yet.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You should, its great!
Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table
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! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I hope so! The temperature should never deter your from making cake 😉 Its just too good!
Honest Mum
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You will love buckwheat! It's fabulous 🙂
Marla
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
It's the best! Thanks Marla!
Michelle @ A Dish of Daily Life
Delicious and healthy...perfect! And I love that it is so quick to make too!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Cake whenever you want it 😉
Michelle @ A Dish of Daily Life
And THAT is a great thing!
Michelle @ Vitamin Sunshine
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!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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.
Kris @ Plants & Pages
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! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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!
Alison
I love this idea, cake in a mug whenever you fancy a snack. It looks great as well
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I wonder who got this mug cake craze started...they were genius!
Jo-Lynne Shane {Musings of a Housewife}
That sounds awesome! And I love the new look of your blog!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Jo-Lynne!
Cassie
I haven't made a mug cake in so long... this needs to change with this chocolate buckwheat cake!!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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!
Linz @ Itz Linz
a comfort food i love is good ol' fashioned mac and cheese!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
That seems to be a love among many 😉
purelytwins
yum!! we love making mini cakes like this 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, well I'm totally addicted now! 😉
Amber
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?!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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.
Nicky
This is the perfect single serving cake. With this, I won't be tempted to eat the whole cake. 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Well since its single serve, you will be eating the whole thing 😉
Brittany @ DulceVie
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, I had oatmeal this morning with a huge spoonful of cinnamon raisin PB swirled in! So yummy 😉
Rachel
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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 :/
Jamie @ Rise.Run.Mom.Repeat.
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.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Well this is some GOOD cake! You'll love it!
Rachael@AnAvocadoADay
Yum! I have a ton of buckwheat flour at home from a clearance sale so I definitely will be making this!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Yea! Put that goodness to good use 😉
laura @ scribbles and sass
yum! this looks delicious. i've never given a mug cake a try, i'll have to remedy that!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Please do! You won't be disappointed! I know I waited to long to give it a try, haha 😉
Marisa @ Uproot from Oregon
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 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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!
Yaitza
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
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
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 🙂
Brittany @ Delights and Delectables
I love buckwheat mug cakes!!! YUM!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Buckwheat seriously is the best!
Jeanette | Jeanette's Healthy Living
Love this healthy mug cake - looks so decadent, I don't think anyone would know it's packed with healthy ingredients!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Right!? Add a little cocoa and you can make any healthy dish look sinful 😉
jill conyers
I love it when I see you're sharing a recipe. I can count on it being yummy and gluten free! No tweaking needed 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Jill!
You got that right! Who ever said cooking gluten-free is hard? Haha 😉