Sponge Cupcake

As we mentioned earlier, Kelly and I are roommates and like every other chick our age, we love cupcakes. Well, we once heard from our friend Molly, who heard from her older sister, who read from some website, that you can make cupcakes in the microwave. Which is just about the greatest thing for late night snacks without the hassle of the mess or ending up with a dozen soon-to-be-eaten cupcakes, not that that is always a bad thing.

We heard of this little miracle back in September but we were living in a place with no microwave (recent college grads living without a microwave, irony at it's finest). But since then, we've adopted a microwave (and a Chobot) and just the other night we remembered the possibilities that are now possible.

So we looked up a recipe for microwaveable cupcakes.
And then realized we would need to improvise a bit... a lot a bit.


INGREDIENTS
6 tbs plain flour

½ tsp baking powder
6 tbs sugar

4 tbs cocoa powder

2 eggs

4 tbs Carotino or other neutral oil

4 tbs milk or coconut milk

*Now this is what should have been. Instead we used 1/3 of a jar of Nesquik instead of cocoa powder and a bit of baking soda and molasses instead of baking powder.

We mixed up everything in a bowl, it looked just like when you were younger and too sick to go school, poured it into a mug and microwaved!



Let me just say that if we had actually followed the recipe, I'm sure the cupcake would have been awesome. I personally think our downfall was the Nesquik.

Well, the smell from the "cupcake" made me wish my mom was there to hand me a sick day bowl. But Kelly was brave enough to actually try some, "it doesn't taste like it smells, it's just kind of like a chocolate sponge."


Moral of the story, a microwaveable cupcake is a wonderful idea. Microwaveable Nesquik cupcakes, not a good idea. Or maybe it was the molasses. Either way, please substitute with caution people, for the love of cupcakes