Cooking for teens and by teens. My son is more than capable of fending for himself now (as those who read a post some time ago will know, when I left home for university my repertoire consisted of badly made omelette and nothing else), but has to be bribed to do so unless he is close to fainting. Something I picked up from the site Lovefood.com caught his imagination, however, and he has now had three goes at it: Cake in a mug. And this goes beyond the one flame cooking thread of recent times - it is done in seconds in the microwave.
This is actually very close to the microwaved sponge that Ruth does every now and then, but the gimmick of the mug and the simplicity of the thing grabbed him. Here is the link in case anyone fancies a very quick chocolate pudding, or wants to interest his or her teenager in post-parental-home survival cookery.
http://www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/16990/cake-in-a-mug-recipe
Sternest critic is not a fan of coffee (I had to buy some Nescafe for him to try it in the recipe, which demanded instant muck) so his second and third versions have reduced or omitted that flavouring and the chocolate in favour of jam. Their timing of 5 mins prep and 5 mins cooking is way out, it takes about 5 mins total now including a minute's wait for the pud to cool down.
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