Vegan Pumpkin Mug Cake
This Vegan Pumpkin Mug Cake is healthy, oil-free, fruit-sweetened, and has the perfect fluffy, tender texture!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup oat flour (~30 grams)
- 1 Tbsp. almond flour--from blanched almonds, not almond meal (~6 grams)
- 1/2 tsp. pumpkin spice
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 Tbsp. pumpkin puree (plain pumpkin) (~30 grams)
- 1 Tbsp. date syrup (~17 grams)
- 1 Tbsp. unsweetened applesauce (~17 grams)
Optional toppings:
- 1/2 Tbsp. date-sweetened chocolate chips (about 9 chips, ~4 grams)
- 1/2 Tbsp. raw pepita seeds (~5 grams)
Instructions
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You can mix this cake up right in your mug! Try to use a mug with a wider base and keep in mind that the cake will rise about an inch in the mug. You can also use a 12-ounce ramekin in place of a mug.
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Whisk together the dry ingredients (oat flour, almond flour, baking powder and spice).
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Then mix in the wet ingredients with a spoon (pumpkin puree, date syrup and/or applesauce). Makes sure to get into the bottom corners of the mug to ensure that all the dry ingredients have been mixed into the wet.
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Smooth out the top of the batter and top with optional chocolate chips or pepita seeds.
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Microwave for 90 seconds. The top will spring back when you press down.
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Let it cool down for at least 2 minutes before eating the mug and cake is very hot (this is the hard part).
Recipe Notes
Make sure that you don’t scoop your flour from the bag, this leads to compressing and you end up using a lot more flour. Spoon the flours into your measuring cups and cut with a knife. For the most accurate approach use a kitchen scale if you have one.
Use date-sweetened chocolate chips. I use the Just Date brand.
You can easily double the cake. Just increase microwave cooking time to 2 minutes 15 seconds.
Sweetener options:
You can use all date syrup or all applesauce to sweeten this cake. The all date syrup will be sweetest and the all applesauce is very subtly sweetened. I personally find the flavor and texture of 1 Tbsp. date syrup and 1 Tbsp. applesauce to be the best.
If you use the 2 Tbsp. applesauce as the only sweetener the calories per cake will be reduced by 14.5 calories and the sugar will reduced by 7.3.