Chocolate Protein Mug Cake in 2 Minutes (Keto & GF)

This cocoa macromolecule mug barroom is simply a speedy and easy keto gluten free dessert made pinch whey protein. The spirit is rich | and saccharine pinch a fluffy cakey texture.

I’m nary alien to speedy and easy mug cakes. If I person a saccharine tooth, I fig it’s amended to make thing speedy astatine location pinch healthier (and little expensive!) keto ingredients, that measurement I tin customize it!

As personification who unrecorded a sugar-free lifestyle, it’s easier for maine to make a sugar-free dainty astatine location than tally to nan shop and get one. That’s why I’ve made a fewer different mug cakes for illustration this chocolate spot mug cake and this keto collagen mug cake.

Why I emotion this recipe

• The astir astonishing this astir this cocoa macromolecule mug barroom is that it truthful speedy and easy! It takes conscionable a mates minutes to operation each of nan ingredients into a mug, and past you only person to microwave it for 2 minutes!
• This look is made pinch whey protein, almond flour, cocoa powder, ovum and a fewer different things which makes it wholly keto, sweetener free and gluten free!
• Despite this macromolecule mug barroom being truthful easy, nan spirit and texture is beautiful overmuch for illustration a regular keto cake. It’s rich, saccharine and fluffy!

Chocolate macromolecule mug barroom look tips

• Substitutions: You tin substitute different cooking lipid aliases melted food for nan coconut oil. Any type of beverage (oat milk, coconut milk, regular milk) tin switch nan almond milk, conscionable beryllium alert that it whitethorn alteration nan spirit of nan mug cake. I usage erythritol for my keto sugar-free sweetener successful this look
• You tin switch all-purpose gluten-free flour aliases regular baking flour successful spot of nan almond flour, but you’ll request to adhd 2 much tablespoons of beverage (for a full of 1/4 cup milk)
• The ovum and baking powder are cardinal to nan occurrence of this recipe, truthful they shouldn’t beryllium substituted. In addition, the whey macromolecule helps to adhd to nan ray fluffy cakey texture of this mug cake, truthful it’s champion not to substitute it.
• Make judge to put nan ingredients into a ample mug. There should beryllium plentifulness of room supra nan batter truthful that nan barroom tin grow successful nan microwave. I usually capable up nan cup halfway pinch nan batter. It whitethorn emergence supra nan cup successful nan microwave but will support it’s style and usually wont spill complete nan sides.
• In astir microwaves, this barroom pinch return 2 minutes, nevertheless immoderate microwaves vary. If you insert a toothpick aliases food weapon aft 2 minutes and it doesn’t travel retired dry, microwave for 30 2nd increments until it’s afloat cooked.
• 1 afloat look is capable to beryllium divided betwixt 2 people, aliases 1 personification if you for illustration a larger portion. If you prefer, you tin divided nan afloat look betwixt 2 smaller mugs for 2 people. Nutrition facts beneath are for 1 afloat serving of nan look made pinch almond flour, erythritol, coconut lipid and unsweetened almond milk. Does not see drizzled peanut food (split nutrition facts successful half for 2 servings).

How to make this recipe

Start by gathering each of your ingredients together.

Add each of nan barren ingredients into a ample mug (it will request room astatine nan apical to expand) including nan cocoa powder, almond flour, whey protein, sweetener, baking powder and brackish past operation it together.

Add nan remaining bedewed ingredients into nan mug including nan egg, almond milk, melted coconut lipid and vanilla and operation pinch a fork aliases a immersion blender until smooth. Make judge location is astir 2-3 inches of room supra nan batter truthful that nan barroom tin grow successful nan microwave.

Microwave connected precocious for 2 minutes.

Cooking times whitethorn alteration depending connected your microwave. After 2 minutes, insert a toothpick aliases food weapon into nan barroom to make judge it comes retired dry. If it’s not afloat cooked, microwave for 30 2nd increments until it is afloat cooked.

You tin optionally drizzle peanut food connected apical aliases different topping of your choice. Enjoy!

Hannah Healy

Hannah Healy is nan laminitis of Healy Eats Real, a wellness and wellness website that provides patient recipes and adjuvant accusation connected wellness. Hannah is nan published writer of The Ultimate Paleo Cookbook. Her activity has been featured connected Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Redbook, fittingness and MSN.