Coconut Vanilla Mug Cake

This is a very moist, delicious cake with just the right sweetness to it enhanced by the sweetened shredded coconut sprinkled on Cool Whip topping.  It is a simple, easy and quick cake to make when you have a craving for a relatively healthy vanilla cake.  It is made without any eggs and yet it has a very fluffy consistency.  Its preparation is made simpler and quicker if you make it from the homemade yellow cake mix found in this blog which I have successfully used for making other mug cakes. 

This recipe was adapted from the vanilla mug cake found in the wonderful Table for Two website.  I used oil not butter and half the amount of shortening or oil in the original recipe from this aforementioned blog.  The result is just as delicious a cake but easier to remove from the mug so one can ice it more easily with the Cool Whip and shredded coconut.  The original recipe is moister I would admit but meant to be eaten straight from the mug since it is difficult to transfer it from the mug to a plate if you want to do so.

Enjoy a quick heavenly dessert and make this awesome coconut vanilla mug cake.  It is in a perfect single serve recipe just enough to satisfy your sweet tooth asap.

Coconut Vanilla Mug Cake

(Adapted from Table for Two)

• 4 tbsps homemade yellow cake mix (recipe for one batch is below)
• 3 tbsp milk of your choice (I used 2 % milk)
• 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
• Cool Whip or similar topping
• sweetened shredded coconut

Spray a coffee mug or cup with cooking spray and set aside.

Place the homemade yellow cake mix in a cereal bowl.  Make a well and add the milk, oil and vanilla in this well and blend these liquid ingredients with the cake mix using a fork. 

Place the batter in the coffee mug and microwave for 1 minute and 10 seconds.  (I used a 1100 watt microwave oven). 

Cool the cake and then transfer to a small plate.  Spread Cool Whip all over it and sprinkle with as much shredded coconut on top as you like or what your waist would allow. 

Homemade Yellow Cake Mix (equivalent to one box of Yellow Cake mix)

(Adapted from I Am Baker)

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar (or 3/4 cup sugar and 3/4 cup Splenda)

3 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Mix all the ingredients in a jar or ziplop bag. You can use this for several number of single serving recipes. Check out also the Microwaved Pumpkin Mug Cake recipe in this blog.