Friday, September 7, 2012

Chocolate Peanut Butter Microwave Cake

I decided to have the kids help me make this week's cake,  a very simple microwave cake that we made after a weeknight dinner.  We chose a chocolate cake with a peanut butter drizzle. The cake started out by plopping a tablespoon of creamy peanut butter in the cup, I prefer Skippy Creamy.  The batter is made using Reddiwhip, Egg Beaters and Brownie Mix! 

I know that you are thinking this is a pretty sad cake this week... but I have kids -- and maybe you have kids. If you do have kids they will love it.  This cake can be made entirely by a five year old and that's pretty awesome in our house.

The recipe called for a tablespoon of peanut butter to start.  I'd switch to 1 1/2 tsp. peanut butter added to the bottom of the mug.

Then whisk together:
1/2 cup Reddi Whip
1/4 cup EggBeaters
1/2 cup dry brownie mix

Pour batter of the peanut butter and microwave for 1.5 minutes.

The mug though, is what will make the difference in a good lookin' cake and this:

 
Next go-around I will use a short mug and it will look much better, I promise.  What mattered though was that my two kiddos thought it was super fun!