Recipes · inspired by Carrot Cake in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 3
Carrot Cake Mug Cake
A warm spiced carrot cake made in a mug in the microwave, topped with a spoon of cream cheese frosting.
- Ready in
- 7 min
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- 1 mug
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
A full carrot cake has a long ingredient list and an hour in the oven. A spice cake mix already has the cinnamon and nutmeg in it, so a grated carrot is all you need to add.
Make it a learning moment: carrots are sweet because they store sugar in their roots to grow. That is why they work in cake.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Grate the carrot on the fine side of the grater.
- Kids Stir the cake mix, carrot, oil and milk together in a big microwave-safe mug.
- Grown-up Microwave 60 to 90 seconds, until it has risen and springs back when touched.
- Kids Let it cool for 2 minutes, then top with the frosting and watch it melt.
