This Oreo Mug Cake Is Just an Easy Cry for Help
About once a year I get depressed and make a mug of cake. It is never very satisfying. There is something particularly grim about measuring out teaspoons and pinches of baking ingredients, only to be rewarded with a wet mug of something that vaguely resembles a cake.
A few weeks ago, I had feelings for pie (almost like a clock), although I ended up settling for a cookie in a bowl, which was just as bad, if not worse, than the mug cakes of yesteryear.
Perhaps if I had just downloaded TikTok, things would have been different. Maybe I would have seen this Oreo mug cake recipe before, or maybe I would have made it instead. Perhaps instead of a bowl of wet biscuit but not cookie batter, I could eat a mug of not quite Oreo-flavored lava cake. Instead of measuring and stirring, I could splash and punch.
The most depressing aspect of the cake mug is how much effort it actually takes. Flour, sugar, baking powder, and measuring spoons are still needed, but the end product is disproportionately mediocre. Cupcakes in a mug scoff at the creator of their lingering inferiority, which, as it turns out, does not help to cope with depression.
Anyway. Since I don’t have TikTok, I first saw such a recipe on The Kitchn , where it was described as “magical.” I wouldn’t use that word to describe it, but this mug pie is definitely better than any other mug pie I’ve had. It sits somewhere in between BJ’s Pizzookie and melted chocolate cake in taste and texture, only slightly lighter in flavor and much less labor intensive than any other.
In theory, all you need to do is toss the cookie into a mug, pour enough milk to fill half a mug (about a third of a cup), and stab and knead until you have an Oreo sediment. The mug is placed in the microwave for 75 seconds and a sticky chocolate cake comes out.
In practice, my experience with making an Oreo mug was only marginally different from what was shown in the video. I had to heat up the mine for a minute and a half – it was very runny at first – and I had to add a couple of extra Oreos to get a thick sludge. (It takes eight dry Oreos to fill a mug, but only 10 to get the dough where you want it.) The first Oreo mug pie was moist and warm, but not as chocolatey as I expected, so I made another one. one, and added two tablespoons of Hershey’s syrup to the milk, which (surprisingly) made it more chocolatey.
All in all, I think I actually prefer the taste and experience of eating four or five oreos with a tall glass of cold milk, but it was still the best mug tart I’ve ever made and would be especially good with ice cream … … It’s not really a cry for help – it’s more of a polite request for help – but the Oreo mug cake doesn’t pretend to be anything wrong. Rather than masquerading as “really good!”, He primarily embraces the inevitable despair that leads to such sweetness. “Pin the biscuits,” he whispers, “pin them very well and make a sediment.” If this is not the right mood for the present time, I do not know what it is.