The Greatest Invention Ever...And How To Make Your Own.

Yes. This is it. I have stumbled upon the greatest invention in the history of man. The wheel? Pretty good, no? DONKEY FOOD, compared to this. Fire, that's what you're saying now, it's got to be fire. WRONG. It's simple, my friends. Cake!

But no normal cake...3-minute cake. Designed for the student in need, and fun for all the family!

The idea is that the common student has two items at his disposal - mugs and spoons. The result of this recipe is a delicious cake that can be made in 3 minutes and can take the place of a full meal. The two best applications of this recipe are when I've had mates round for a midnight feast, and when my brother brought bags and bags of the ingredients into school to make them during maths class.

Here are the instructions (these are the proportions I use. The best results are when half is baked, and the rest forms a sauce, though if you fiddle with the numbers you get varied cakes.)

Into 1 mug (yes, MUG), add:

1 egg
3 1/2 tablespoons self raising flour (or, 3 non-self raising and 1/4 tsp. baking powder)
3 tbsp. milk
3 tbsp. oil (Vegetable, if this is unavailable, ground nut.)
4 tbsp. Cocoa powder (Cadbury's drinking chocolate powder or similar will do)
1 teaspoon baking powder.
4 tbsp. caster sugar.

Then mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, mix, and when it's all smoooooooooooooooooooooth, it's done.

Next, place the mug in the microwave. The original recipe is for 3 minutes on full, however, I recommend 1 minute, then add a teaspoon of chocolate spread, then another minute in the microwave.

Et voilá! Good eats! Goes great with ice cream or chocolate sauce.

EDIT: Here's some photos courtesy of BSprague:

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Nice. Except being a student I don't have half of those ingredients at my disposal.

Anything you make out of dust? I have plenty of that. :p

Dust's a powder, I'm sure you could use it to replace all the powdered ingredients on that list.

Updated for Students around the world:

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Originally Posted by dawesbr

Ingredients:

1 egg
3 1/2 tbsp. Dust
3 tbsp. milk
3 tbsp. oil
4 tbsp. Dust
1 tbsp. Dust
4 tbsp. Dust.

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Mmmmm mmmm, I'm so going round Syroc's for dinner :p

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With dust being mainly skin cells, you're probably better licking your arm for a while in that case, syroc xD

Oooh, I can do it with rtm's adjustments. I'm going to report back.

From hospital. :D

After you said that, I just thought "YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Me too, so I'm just going to make some chicken masala instead. :)

Is no one going to try this awesome recipe? It is so awesome it cannot be described, you just have to try it for yourself.

O ye, I tried it last night. However, I put one tablespoon of baking powder in by accident...so...yeah. It basically exploded in the microwave. It was good though. :)

Do it again, and film it.
:D

Can I use regular sugar? I think I might have Confectioner's sugar as well, but I'm not entirely sure, and I want to try this out. :)

I used regular sugar in mine. I didn't even know what caster sugar was until I looked it up.

Speaking of which, by caster sugar you might edit in (superfine sugar for you Americans)

Yeah, regular sugar's fine. I used Musca-whatever it is, the common brown sugar, it was fine.

Also, funny mistake Bass :P First time I tried it with baking powder, I put in 1 teaspoon, and even then it grew so much the tower collapsed. A tablespoon would be...crazy.

I'm going to see if I have everything now. If I have everything, I'll make it and post some pictures. :)

Haha, cool, thanks BSprague. And try not to make the same mistake as Bass xD Also, the chocolate spread is not necessary, so don't worry if you don't have that.

It works! I didn't have Confectioner's sugar, but regular worked fine. Also, I didn't have cocoa powder, so I used Jell-O mix, and took a couple pictures. It's delicious, though it did overflow in the microwave a little bit. I'm uploading pictures now.

EDIT: Pictures reposted a couple posts down at #22.

I don't see any pictures.

I see the pictures fine...

I don't see them either :(

This sounds like a great idea though :p