Pumpkin Mug Cake
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A quick and easy PUMPKIN MUG CAKE that’s filled with chocolate chips and is ready in just 5 minutes!
Recipe features
- A delicious pumpkin cake that’s ready in just 5 minutes
- A quick and easy dessert recipe
- Even better when topped with chocolate chips
Ingredient notes
Flour – whole wheat, but can sub all purpose flour
Brown sugar – can sub cane sugar
Milk- any kind
Method
Start by stirring the dry ingredients–flour, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt–together in a mug.
Then, add the milk, pumpkin and vanilla to the mug and whisk until the batter is smooth.
Microwave the cake for 2 minutes. Then, top the whole thing with chocolate chips and dig in!
Notes
- Don’t have pumpkin pie spice? Use cinnamon instead.
- Want to switch it up? Try using white chocolate chips.
- Sweetener: I found brown sugar to work best, but cane sugar works too. Can also use maple syrup instead, though if you do that, I’d only use 2 tbsp milk.
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Pumpkin Mug Cake
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp whole wheat flour
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp milk
- 2 tbsp pumpkin
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp chocolate chips, optional
Instructions
- Stir flour, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt together in a mug.
- Add milk, pumpkin and vanilla to the mug and stir to combine. Then, stir in 1 tbsp of the chocolate chips.
- Microwave the cake for 2 minutes. Then, top it with the remaining chocolate chips.
Notes
Nutrition
UPDATE NOTE: This post was originally published in September 2014. It was updated with new text and photos in September 2020.
#TRUTHBOMB i don’t like white chocolate…cause it’s not really chocolate lol. My dad luvs it though! I got his blue eyes and blonde hair but not his love of white chocolate. Who woulda thunk?
This looks so good though (and also you’re right about butterscotch chips. they’e yummy)
#TRUTHBOMB: you don’t like white chocolate, I don’t like you. But I do like your dad so….. that has to count for something.
Although I’m not a huge white chocolate lover { only because I end up sick everytime I eat it, but I love it’s flavor haha } I totally agree! January should definitely be dedicated to White Chocolate!
Haha right??!
YES to giving white chocolate a shot – we are equally opportunity chocolate-ists! 😉
And yay for being on the same wavelength, this ROCKS MY FACE. Pinned!
Thanks! And YES for sharing the underrated chip 😀
I want one right now!!! This sounds absolutely perfect, and I’m in total agreement about white chocolate! It definitely gets neglected, but I happen to really enjoy it!
Me too! It deserves the spotlight sometimes.
Mmm, this looks delicious! I’m all about mug cakes because I have no control around a batch of anything.. I mean, I don’t hate that 😉 Haha but mug cakes are fantastic. White chocolate is actually my husbands favorite, so I know he’d be into this as well! Must make this weekend. Have a good one!
Thanks! Let me know if your husband tries it!
so i have a secret… this is my next healthy bites flavor.. great minds! YUM!
Ahhh same wavelength!
YUM….mug cakes….the convenience and noms…
Erin, I am not sure we can be friends anymore after that comment about white chocolate being second best……a little piece of me died when you said that…..just as it does every time my dad says white chocolate is not real chocolate. BUT you were able to save yourself by giving me an easy mug cake containing THE BEST CHOCOLATE there is. With Chicago looming, big pans of desserts are dangerous for me right now, this would be yummy, and single serving size!
Hahahh I’M SORRY. But I am glad to see that you’re a huge white chocolate fan. Tina, this recipe is for you 🙂
You’re so right. White chocolate chips are sadly neglected and they’re sooooo good, especially with pumpkin! Butterscotch can be left out allllllll the time (not fav flavor, haha) but white chocolate, that’s another story 🙂
Hhaha I do prefer white chocolate over butterscotch too 🙂
I used to LOVE white chocolate, but then I cut way down on refined sugars, so now when I have it it just tastes too sweet. But I imagine it is fabulous in this– I have an odd obsession with mug cakes.
It’s pretty easy to become obsessed with mug cakes 😀