Tuesday Tips - Mug Cakes

Sam Jones is the Youth Services Librarian at the Beaver Dam Public Library. She shares tips to make your job easier in her Tuesday posts.

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Recently, I made mug cakes with middle schoolers. If you don't know what mug cakes are (and most of the teens had no idea what I was talking about), they are cakes that can be made in the microwave using only a mug. Now, I was a little nervous since I have never done a cooking program with this group. However, it turned out extremely well. 

There are tons of mug cake recipes on the internet. I settled on the recipe that one of my coworkers told me she used all the time. It was the 3-2-1 mug cake. To make the recipe you need to combine one box of angel food cake mix with a cake mix flavor of your choice (we did chocolate and yellow so they had two options). They then had to take three tablespoons of the combined cake mix and put it in the mug. Next, they added two tablespoons of water to the mix and stirred it. Finally, you put it in the microwave for one minute. 

I provided chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, strawberry syrup, and sprinkles to put on the cake. It was delicious. We made a minimum of 40 mug cakes. They had a great time.