Advantages of taking 3 children ages 4 and under to a Restaurant:
- Don’t have to cook or clean up.
- I can’t think of one more advantage. Not one.
Advantages of staying home:
- No one has to witness the painful and often unappetizing process of teaching ‘said children’ table manners
- No loading/unloading of the car (oh how I just love this part of parenting)
- Save money
- No one needs to know if one or two (or three) of us show up to the table in our jammies now do they?
Yet with the evidence so clearly in favor of staying home having the most advantage, we went out anyway. I really didn’t want to cook.
We brought crazytown to Garbanzos tonight. Oi.
It is no small feat going out to dinner these days.
I decided after our little adventure we needed a treat (and by we I mean Jared and I). So we put the kids to bed and I made this:
It’s no lie, really it only takes two minutes. Well, maybe two minutes and 45 seconds for the gluten free version. For the regular version recipe and my Pinspiration click here.
Start with your favorite mug. Mine is this one that my sister gave to all of us sisters a few Christmas’ ago. It came in a beautiful box with some Chai Tea (that was the bomb) and a little tea strainer.
Each of our cups has a different word with the ‘meaning’ on the inside of the lip
Or drinking tea, whichever you prefer.
Here’s the ingredients
Mix the dry ingredients first then add the rest.
Then put it in the microwave starting with one minute. Check and add 20 seconds at a time until it’s cooked on the outside and gooey on the inside.
Deee-licious. Only thing that would have made it better would have been a little Baileys with coffee ice cubes.
P.S. – For the record, my gluten free baking never ever looks pretty. So this brownie may look like a hot mess but I swear it tasted amazing 🙂
Yay! thanks for fixing! OMG the mug! I use mine EVERY morning. It has a chip in it. By the way it was not a Christmas gift, it was from her wedding!
Gonna try this recipe!
Love ya sis
Aw geez you’re right!! Hence the awesome orange boxes…sorry Jax 🙂 Oh and chipped = well loved.
I tried this with Coconut flour, coconut oil, and shredded coconuts. It came out a lot more dry than yours. I even had to add 1 tbsp extra milk to get it to a cake-like consistency. But actually, it’s divine coconut mug cake now! lol
I love coconut! Sounds delicious…
Mine was a fail. It was bubbly and it kinda exploded.
Delicious thank you! 1 1/2 minutes was perfect, just what I was craving
Thank you so much! I tried the gf/coconut oil variation with almond flour, but used 1tbsp of coconut oil instead of 2. It was still way too much oil, though, and I had to pour some out (chemistry in the kitchen, fun)! If you try the coconut oil, 1tsp is probably enough. Super delicious, especially with berries.
This recipe is a keeper. Turned out great. I used coconut oil and almond milk in mine. It is like having built in portion control.
Omg thank you so much ! Ever since going gluten free it’s been such a pain and expensive. I just made it and it’s amazing! Plus with only a mug I won’t pig out on a whole batch. My husband requested another. Amazing !
I use this recipe ALL the time. I find when I use coconut oil I only need one table spoon. I also add vanilla essence. Today I added half an orange and it was amazing! It’s also fab with sainsburys gluten and dairy free chocolate hazelnut spread in the middle. Thanks for the recipe it’s fab!