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“All for One” Lava Cake

Filed Under: 100-150, 50-100, Almond Milk, Applesauce, Banana, Cakes and Cupcakes, Chocolate, Chocolate, Cocoa Powder, Desserts, Erythritol, Greek Yogurt, No Bake, Recipe Makeover, Recipes, Single Serving, Snacks, Sugar Free, Vegan, Whole Wheat Flour

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Well this is the season of love!

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As the sixteen year old poster child of all the single ladies, it’s easy to make like Sasha Fierce and overlook Valentine’s Day as a day of lovey dovey couples-only nonsense, but it truly is so much more. It’s a day to eat chocolate with reckless abandon.

Allow me to introduce you to my tall dark and handsome.

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I’m in love!

For starters, this cake is huuuge. Like, great wall of chocolate huge. It’s rich, chocolatey, gooey, chocolatey decadence that is oozing with chocolate and I frankly believe it deserves its own food group.

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Oh, and it’s only 120 calories.

I will show you more pictures of the lava filling now.

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Start my making your batter. I understand this is the recipe you’ll be making when you want lava cake in your face like five minutes ago, so it’ll be ready in no time. I love you too.
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Flowers? Boxes of chocolate? So 2013. Lava cake is where it’s at. (Heck, I’ll still take the flowers and chocolate too.)

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I’m really trying not to lick the screen here. This is my Valentine’s Gift to you because I love you and I wish you lots of happiness and cake (redundant, I know).

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Feel free to double the recipe (still cooking them in separate mugs) if you are celebrating with your significant other. Or you can be like me and just eat them both. Being single does have its perks.

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Adapted with love from girl who bakes.

Please note: The following recipe is NOT gluten or grain free, so please click for the recipe that is.

Yield: 1 large serving (for you!)

Serving Size: the whole darn recipe

Single Serving Lava Cake

5 minPrep Time:

1 minCook Time:

6 minTotal Time:

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Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 tablespoons white whole wheat flour
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar or erythritol
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 3 tablespoons almond milk
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened applesauce, mashed banana, or yogurt
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/8 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 tablespoon chocolate chips
  • 1/2 tablespoon unsweetened almond milk

Instructions

  1. In a large mug, combine the white whole wheat flour, erythritol or sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Add in almond milk, applesauce, vanilla, and apple cider vinegar and stir until uniform and no dry pockets remain. Set aside.
  2. Combine the chocolate chips and 1/2 tablespoon almond milk in a small cup. Microwave for 45 seconds and stir. If you're not a microwave user, feel free to do this on the stove top.
  3. Scoop out 1/2 of the batter in the mug, make an indent, and pour the melted chocolate into the indent. Carefully cover with the other 1/2 of the batter. Cook in the microwave for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes until firm. Alternately, you can bake in the over at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 12-15 minutes. Devour.

Notes

Nutritional information calculated with erythritol and applesauce.

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Nutrition

Calories: 100 cal
Fat: 1 gram g

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What are your Valentine’s Day plans?

I plan on eating multiples of this cake and watching something with Channing Tatum in it.


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    • Hi Kacie. This is similar to a method I use making Wacky Cake. The vinegar reacts with the baking soda and makes the cake rise otherwise it will be like lump of hard cake sitting in the bottom of either a pan or mug. The combination of baking soda and vinegar also takes the place of eggs.
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  3. Hello my dear Kelly, I printed the GF recipe but it has no flour listed (whoops). I assume it takes the same amount of flour as the regular recipe only in a gf flour--correct? Perhaps you want to correct the recipe. Hope all is well for you and your Mom. Much love, your other Mother, marleen
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  6. Just made this..eating it as i type :) I didnt have chocolate chips so instead i made instant fat free chocolate pudding. It turned out deliciouse. This is definetly fablouse sweet treat when your craving chocolate!
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  7. OMG Kelly, I love you so so so so so so much that I could still say "so" a hundred times and it wouldn't be enough. This recipe is so fantastic that I want to marry it. I just made it, and it tastes like pure heaven! I mean, how only 2 1/2 tbsp of flour can make such a HUGE cake? When you said lava cake and I saw the amount of flour, I was like "yeah, 120 calories, it's pretty good for a lava cake... but it will be like one of those small have-just-a-little-bit desserts" but it's not! I'm pretty impressed, got tell ya. So, thank you sooooooo much for this incredible recipe, I will make it every day, I'm pretty sure <3
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  8. Just made these last night - so delicious! I ran out to the store to buy mini pans, and then forgot to buy chocolate chips :( but even without the chocolatey filling, they were amazing.
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  9. Hi, I really like your site! So I tried to make this now 2 times and I can't get a "lava" center. It says to use applesauce or banana, but then in he directions I don't see when/where to put it in. Is that my problem? I really want to make this work!
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    • Hi Marla! So sorry about that! Did you add the chocolate chips to make the lava center? In the recipe, I say to add the applesauce in step 1. Hope this helps!
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  13. Hey there Just thought i should let you know that i tried this myself at home with gluten free self raising flour (all purpose gf - equivalent to Bobs red mill gluten free) and it worked just fine. Batter was runny, and made a small enough cake that stayed moist however. used applesauce and two packets of truvia, and a little less cocoa. Cute little cake. would be nice with a vanilla centre instead, to balance the chocolate. Could use a yogurt base thing or something!
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  14. Literally had to make an account to thank you for this heavenly slice of perfection! It is sooo good and it tastes like it should be bad for you but it's so low calorie!
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  17. I am not sure how you factored the calories, but I just put the ingrediants into myfitnesspal.com and I am not including the gooey middle, so taking out the chocolate chips and milk for that, and not using any yogurt (I don't have any on hand) the the carlories are at 126 per cake. Still worth it, but for those of us who are anal about their calorie intake... Thanks for giving us a low calorie cake option. Heading to fix it now!!
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    • Thank you for noticing, Lisa! Here at Foodie Fiasco, we count calories a little differently(and *ahem* better, in my unbiased opinion), as seen here: https://www.foodiefiasco.com/how-to-correctly-count-calories/! I hope that you enjoy your lovely lava cake, and wish you the best of luck in your adventures in health:-)
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  18. Hi, Great Recipe! However calculations are wrong. You say that the whole recipe is 100 calories, but I tespoon of sugar is 15 calories and 2 tablespoons calculates to 90 itself. Plus 15 for one tablespoon of cocoa powder
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  22. Hi! I'll be making this recipe for breakfast tomorrow, can't wait to see how it turns out! ;} I thought of using honey instead (well, 1/2 tbsp coconut sugar and 3 tsp honey. The nutritional benefits of honey is what is keepin me from feeling slightly guilty about this wonderful little thing ;) ). Anyway, since I wanted to bake it in the oven instead, i just hope the chocolate filling won't harden if i already melted it in the microwave first...will it?
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  26. If you add up everything is adds up to almost 300 calories…. which is still pretty low for a molten lava cake recipe.
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    • Hi Angie, I'm glad it still worked out! I've definitely made that mistake a couple times myself XD
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  28. Hi - I really want to make this, but I was wondering if you think I could sub chocolate protein powder for the cocoa powder to give it a protein boost, but still a chocolate flavor? Thanks!
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  29. This is the best mug cake I have tried. I used Splenda for sweetener and skim milk. Next time I will add peanut butter to the lava just because I love it. It takes a little more work than the 3 ingredient ones with egg and requires three small bowls/mugs to wash instead of just one . Microwaved it in a chili bowl, so cut down the time to one minute. Perfect.
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  30. OK, now that I have fallen for this mug cake, I have been thinking how to modify it for a cinnamon one for breakfast. Husband loves sweets (like I don't!). My idea: leave out the cocoa in the batter and add cinnamon. For the lava, melt butter, a mixture of brown and white sugar and cinnamon together and reserve some to drizzle over the top. Will report back after experimentation. Unless someone else has already perfected this. Going back about 45 years, Betty Crocker had a box cake mix for an 8X8 pan without egg that was called snack cake which I think was from the wacky cake recipes with baking soda a and vinegar to make it rise. It came in chocolate and banana...uh oh...I have an idea for a banana mug cake using my stash of overripe frozen bananas. Giving the chocolate one 5 stars again so the overall score does not go down. Usually I give recipes a 4 star unless it is fantastic (like the best ever oatmeal cake I found online that was like a poke and pour that nobody else commented on and people always ask for the recipe). Usually room for improvement. Leave this chocolate one as is! Other mug cakes don't hold a candle and I have tried plenty.
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