Learn how to turn a regular box of cake mix into a super quick and satisfying treat in your microwave in under 10 minutes!
The best trick for this easy treat is swapping the butter or oil out for an overly ripe banana. The result is an incredibly moist cake, with a semi-healthier twist!
Cooking cake in the microwave is a skill everyone should know. More-so, cooking a cake in the microwave from a boxed cake mix is the ultimate talent. We know we’re not the only ones who get a nagging sweet tooth late at night.
One night a box of Betty Crocker Cake Mix was staring at me from my pantry just begging to be baked up, but I didn’t have the patience to wait 40 minutes for it to cook and I didn’t want to heat up the already warm house with my oven. Thus, this Secret Ingredient Microwave Chocolate Cake being born!
Why This Microwaved Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe Works
- It is the quickest and easiest way to make a cake knocking your cooking time from 40 minutes to under 10 minutes.
- It is a perfect serving size for one person per ramekin, or you have the ability to bake the cake in one go in a microwave safe cake pan!
- Experimenting has led to some delicious additions, toppings, and fillings.
- Clean up is fast with just a fork and a mug and take only 1 minute to bake up!
- Overly ripe bananas easily replace butter and oil in this recipe leaving you with a delicious and moist cake.
Ingredients For Microwaved Chocolate Cake
- Betty Crocker Super Moist Chocolate Cake Mix *secret ingredient*
- Overly ripe banana
- Eggs
- Water
- Non-stick cooking spray
How to Cook Secret Ingredient Chocolate Cake in the Microwave
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In large bowl, mixed together the smashed banana, eggs, and water. Whisk until combined.
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Stir in cake mix – stir vigorously for a couple of minutes until well mixed.
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Spray ramekins with cooking spray. Pour batter into ramekins up to 2/3 full.
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Microwave depending on the amount of ramekins and wattage of your microwave. Check the FAQs for best cooking times!
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Check with toothpick to see if cake is done. Mushy cake mix stuck to toothpick? Add another 30 seconds. Cake crumbs on toothpick? Done!
In case you don’t have ramekins, pour batter into a 9×11 glass microwave safe baking dish. Pour until the batter reachers just half way up the sides. Microwave for 11 minutes on medium-high, then check for doneness with a toothpick or cake tester. Once baked, cut into squares!
FAQs
How long to microwave my cake?
The timing of your cake will vary on the strength and wattage of your microwave. Here is a general rule for microwave cooking time:
-Two Ramekins: Microwave on medium-high for 5 minutes
-Three-Four Ramekins: Microwave on medium-high for 6 minutes
– Five-Six Ramekins: Microwave on medium-high for 7 minutes
How can I quickly Ripen a Banana in the Microwave?
Microwaving a banana will turn it brown, converting the starch into sugar. This allows the banana to become a little sweeter, but the best result is how soft it becomes, making it the perfect addition to this microwave chocolate cake!
Quickly ripen a banana in the microwave by poking the peel with the tip of a knife. Then, wrap the banana in a paper towel and microwave for 30 seconds at low heat.
How Can I Elevate my Cake?
A few of our favorite ways to elevate a simple, but delicious cake are:
-Drop a big chunk of chocolate in the middle of batter in each ramekin resulting in a molten chocolate cake.
-Toss fresh raspberries into the better for a super fresh element.
– Top your moist chocolate microwave cake with whipped cream or ice cream!
Negative Calorie Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist Cake Mix Dark Chocolate
- 1 very ripe banana smushed well with a fork
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/3 cups water
- Cooking spray to spray the ramekins
Instructions
- In large bowl, mixed together the smushed banana, eggs and water. Whisk until combined.
- Stir in cake mix - stir vigorously for a couple of minutes until well mixed.
- Spray ramekins with cooking spray. Pour batter into ramekins up to 2/3 full.
- Every microwave is different - here are some guidelines:
- -For 2 ramekins: microwave on MEDIUM-HIGH (I set my microwave on power strength 8 ) for 5 minutes-For 3-4 ramekins: 6 minutes-For 5-6 ramekins: 7 minutes
- Check with toothpick to see if cake is done. Mushy cake mix stuck to toothpick? Add another 30 seconds. Cake crumbs on toothpick? Done.
- Top with warm chocolate sauce, reduced pomegranate juice, fresh raspberries or a sprinkling of powdered sugar (or all of the above!)
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I’ve replaced my dinner with this cake and put it as part of my weight loss diet, after 3months I’ve put on over 200lbs and my doctor diagnosed me as a type 2 diabetic. He told me to immediately remove this cake from my diet but now my body is dependent on it and my blood sugar levels get morbidly low without it. I’m not sure what I did wrong but my calorie intake is over 8000 calories a day.
I pray for you Adam
Thank you for this amazing recipe, will surely give it a try.
Totally wasted my time, so clickbaitey. I know there is no negative calorie cake, and that it is a joke, but I am so sick of wasting time having to look through the whole recipe to find out it is not what I am looking for.
This was a really poor joke. There are real calorie-negative things out there (e.g. icy cold diet cola), shame to waste people’s time with this.
Ok, brace yourselves.
A serving of the cake mix ALONE is 160 calories..
A banana is roughly 110 calories.
Eggs are 70 calories a piece.
With there being 10 servings in all, 1 serving is about 192 calories. That’s not bad y’all. It’s definitely better than 280, which is the calorie count of the normally prepared cake
Thank you for doing the maths!
Thank you so much. I looked, and looked and looked again for the calorie count. I appreciate you for this. Everyone stay blessed and safe
Not in any way shape or form does this have negative calories
So stupid….because um um um I said so. What is utter rubbish?
Oh, Kristen…You’ve never been to Accu Weight’s recipe page where they have a chocolate pudding that is so low in calories, you practically burn more calories making it.
So, no, you don’t have to be “dumb” or even naive to think someone has tweaked a recipe and incorporated all the not-so-common ingredients to actually successfully create a dessert recipe that ends up being ‘negative calorie” using metabolic revving ingredients combined with the calorie expenditure of making it.
Take your own advice and…Don’t be mad at someone for being gullible enough to click on something as stupid as this page. Bob’s not the first, and really…you are, too, while trying to pretend you didn’t fall for the clickbait, either. What color are the pot and kettle?
I get that it’s meant as a joke, but to label this in the title as “negative calorie” is just ludicrous. Make that joke somewhere in the article, rather than putting it in the title and wasting all of our time with clickbait BS…
How about NEGATIVE star for a misleading title!. I know it’s meant as a joke but the title is VERY misleading. Wasted my time reading to discover it’s a terrible joke!
Do you think it will work if I try this with puree of mango, raspberry and blueberry instead of applesauce or banana just because I have it?
Grenat idéal ,use a banana, Thank you.
Maybe have a “joke” disclaimer in the title so others don’t waste time following this link from Google 🙂
yes thank you what a waste of time to read just because someone thought themselves to be funny
lol I thought it was a funny joke!! Negative calories aren’t a real thing anyway.. best wishes
Can you please tell me how many:
Calories
Fats
Carbs
this recipe has, per serving?
Thank you!
I figured it’s around 375 cal, 9g of fat, and 67g of carbs per serving.
Love this recipe. Easy peasy for a non baker/cook. Just one thing- there are NO Betty Crocker dark chocolate cake mixes( with a hesrshey symbol) anywhere. I don’t think that flavor is made any longer. Not in other “traditional “ cakes mixes either. I used a super moist fudge cake and worked perfectly. Thanks so much
What a crock of “Negative Calorie” shit. Really …are you on drugs?
Why bother commenting if you’re not even going to read the page?
Or… did you read the page and didn’t get the joke?
Either way, it doesn’t look good on you.
I have resisted the temptation of making something like this for long…now I can without the guilt! and i use for all those black bananas hogging freezer space!)
Yes! That’s what I use freezer bananas for!!
Hello, you forgot to add a notice, if you eat more than one, the second will only save you half the calorie, and the third only 1/4 of the calorie and so on. So don’t eat more than 4, because you won’t save much on the 5th.
🙂
Actually you could eat an indefinite amount of these, since it will always be 1/n, so eventually you could have 1/200099 and still be eating negatively
Love your math 🙂 🙂 🙂
you forgot the super powers frosting
I thought it was funny. One question tho, what size are those ramekins?? We don’t own any ramekins (yet).
Hi James – they are about 1 1/2 cup size – perfect for individual serving.
I was laughing out loud as I read the calorie breakdown. Love it!
Just in case you were upset that this was not telly a negative calorie cake, try my recipe for a zero calorie cake. Here goes:
Delicious Mazzy!
I just have to point out that I feel like no one actually read the whole thing. She says it’s negative calories because you get points for eating such a brilliant dessert, not that the dessert itself has no calories. My only problem is that I don’t actually know how many calories are in this, but I’m sure there’s a way to figure it out.
I know it’s a joke too, but those of wondering, it would be nice to know calorie count. Some of us count calories and would like a splurge but need to know. Great writing, funny, but can we know the count for health reasons?
315 for each indivdual cake (6)
It’s a JOKE believe it or not
No kidding, and enjoyed reading it. But can we still have the calorie count?
You can search for recipe and calorie calculator and it’ll tell you the nutritional facts and calories of any recipe you have. It’s really great especially if you make up your own recipes or tweak other recipes.
Hahahahhahahahhah….. I think this is hilarious.
You seem like an idiot who doesn’t understand how humor works. You’re proof that there should be an intelligence test before you are allowed to post comments on the internet.
I am a little skeptical of microwave cakes since I made some with students last summer and they turned out super dry and crumbly… of course, that might be because we overcooked them… Hmmm…
But this recipe, negative calories or not, looks awesome. I might use coconut oil (the healthiest oil out there) to help the banana keep the cake moist. I can’t wait to try it out! Gonna go buy ramekins from the bakery shop near the school where I work.
Your style is priceless — and after reading only the salted steak post and this negative calorie post, you are now my fave food blogger…thanks for the great laughs and awesome techniques
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Perfect now how bout a negative calorie cheesecake recipe? Perhaps you should take submissions and write a negative calorie cookbook. Probably make the best-seller list in cooking AND humor…
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My, my people are far too uptight! It IS funny, and just b/c people are too uptight to take it as a joke, doesn’t mean it’s not funny. You can wish on every star imaginable, it’s not going to make ANY cake a no calorie cake or any other thing out there as no calorie. As many have already pointed out anything marked NO, just means that it has less than 1 of something… NO carbs = less than 1 carb per serving, same with fat, and calories. Get enough of those less than one and they add up to a whole lot. Besides, so many people are going overboard on low cal, low fat, low carb. Eat real, unprocessed food more often and you won’t have to worry so much about how much you’re eating.
Uh… you do realize this is a joke, right?
Funny! Even better are those posts from people who can’t take a joke!
I usually substitute applesauce but banana sounds good, too. I’ve also found a sugar free chocolate cake mix by Betty Crocker that is every bit as good as the other kind. (Keeping sugar down for diabetes)
Lastly – good idea about using ramikins!
Dear Alice,
I am sorry to have to be the one to break the bad news to you but your zero calorie butter spray is a LIE.
You see the FDA (That wonderful Government Agency that is supposed to have our health in mind) has rules that food producers must follow. A lot of these rules make sense and are there for our protection.
However like in many large government agencies ‘stupid’ creeps in (usually it creeps in just after a ‘campaign contribution’ you know a legal bribe)
Back to what I was saying. The rules the FDA have say that a company can claim it food products have 0 fat if there is .5 grams of fat per serving or less. So what companies do is say that the serving size is .5 grams. ABRACADABRA….fat (cooking oil is %100 fat) can now be labeled as FAT FREE !!!!!
Ant there are other loopholes regarding Trans-fats and calories that companies weezle through to make their products look healthier than they are.
Read the ingredients list on your food and then do a little research. You might just be surprised at what you are really eating.
Oh this is hilarious. Glad there’s a zero-calorie cake option for me 😛 lol.
This article made me lol. It was very cleverly written. But what makes me lol more is the comments. Do people not understand this is supposed to be sarcastic? Seriously? lol
I’m looking forward to your next clever recipe, but in the meantime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ5k8JZiWnY
<3
Man.. Why take the time to write something like this? Not particularly funny, instead misleading, particularly since this page is most likely to be visited by people looking for low calorie recipies.
totally agree, not funny at all. she just sounds like a moron who doesn’t understand how calories work.
You’re an idiot
I remember going to this website a year ago (the word Negative Calorie is so alluring, lol) and there were comments saying that, “There’s no such thing as negative calorie!” and such.
It’s sad that people can’t take a joke nowadays. Nothing in this world is negative calorie unless you exercise, eat less calories than that you’ve expended (technically, it’s negative, right?)
Well, that cake looks amazing and I’m going to make it.
Haha! I knew this would be too good to be true! It looks lovely though. Using a banana as an alternative for certain things is a good idea none-the-less lol.
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Jokes are supposed to be funny. This is just so not funny. Try harder next time please.
Do you not understand that it was OBVIOUSLY a joke? lol. Just a recipe for an easy chocolate cake…decided to be funny too.
I guess I find the right cake for my mom.Thanks for the share I’m sure she will be happy to know that there is a healthful cake that she can eat.
LOVE the humour and innovation, thank you!!!
You’re the one who clicked on the site. So tell me, who’s the moron?
Jaden, I hope you ignore all the stupid people who either have no sense of humor or didn’t read your whole post. I think your recipes are fabulous and the fun way you present them makes me laugh out loud. Please share more of your “negative calorie” recipes with us….even if for no other reason than to piss off all the uptight people out there!!!!
Ditto – love your recipe and if someone can’t take a joke……be glad we don’t liv with them lol
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I agree!! I can’t wait to share this with my daughters!! Lol. About once a month we make a chocolate box cake with chocolate chips in it. We call it “gotta have it” cake and eat huge pieces of it hot out of the oven. There’s never any left. My husband didn’t even know we ever made it until one day he came home for lunch. Hahaha. We will probably make ours with the butter or oil since neither of the girls like bananas, but it will add some extra humor to our monthly chocolate cake.
lol good joke. you got my hopes up 🙁
Using a ripe banana was a brilliant idea. Now I can keep in mind another substitute for oil in my baking!
Joke. It’s a joke, morons. Welcome to the internet.
Now that’s my kind of math!
this recipe is extremely misleading, the cake mix itself has calories and whatever else you add to it, like the banana will start adding on calories too. where is the negative calories (not that that even exists) part of this recipe? it might be lower in calorie than the average cake but certainly not zero calorie, dont mislead people into thinking its okay to stuff themselves with this cake and expect to lose weight
DO YOU NOT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR? Plus, you would have to be an idiot not to realise everything has calories!! Lighten up honey, life’s too short to be so serious…
Water = 0 Calories
Scientifically speaking: Nope. Even Water has a calorie amount, but its way under one. Thats why its not listed. Apart from that you burn more Calories by drinking water than gaining by doing so.
ERMMM, alice you do realize there is nothing that is truly no calories right? even that butter spray you love, after a few seconds of spraying it goes from 4 calories and keeps going up. i once measured the butter pray by weighing what i spray and it ended up being a lot of calories and not zero….. by the way ive read it only expending 5 calories per hour for the body to digest so the negative calorie thing is just a myth. by the way, a company can put zero calories if something is >5 calories. it might not sound like a lot, but if you start inhaling something thinking its low calorie, u will end up hurting yourself.
Miracle Noodles = 0 Calories
True Story.
Hmm yummy this cake is looking so good and I’ll try this one .
The best part is the microwave.. especially because right now my kitchen is out of commission because I just moved.
I also enjoyed the older comments, its a shame people missed the joke, but its sad when they didn’t and still felt the urge to lash out via rude posts.
I’m sure they’re probably just bitter because you’re recipe is so sweet
🙂
Yeah, I thought it was funny until I read those rude comments. I was also a bit disappointed because I was searching to see if there was a no calorie cake. I’ve recently come across 0 calorie butter spray and I just love it, so I’m eager to find other minimal cal alternatives. And yeah, someone could eat a tiny piece of cake or no cake at all, but that’s hardy the point. If you love chocolate and cake, you’re trying to find a healthy option. I don’t like the idea of completely restricting your favorite foods.
I agree. This is not negative calories no matter which way you look at it. You essentially lied to get more people to look at your recipe. This does look like a good cake, but you lost major points with me pulling that stunt.
*slaps forehead* SERIOUSLY!???? Do you people not have a sense of humor? (did you even read the entire post?)
I love your article.Thanks for sharing. I have to loose weight but i love chocolate cakes so much, good thing there is a negative calorie cake. Brilliant idea.
Liking your site over here, it’s well made lol.
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where are the negative calories? Its the same amount (if not more). you are just taking away calories for no reason!
omg…try looking at this picture stoned..thats like a visual orgasm!
I adore the sneaky swap-out of banana for oil. Such a simple, fresh tip. Of course…there’s a time and a place for the oil/butter version, but I love the guilt-free approach of your recipe-less recipe.
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Surely this is a joke.. yes, okay it is. Happy to hear that it is delicious though! I can’t wait to try it.. something you can pack ingredients for and take to work with you for cake in a cup. YUM!
-Sunny
i just read some of the older comments and haha. yes I do understand that the author doesnt actually think the cake has negative calories.
sounds nice, but this would never work on my atkins menu.
Negative calories caught my eye esp with a photo of a delicious, yummy looking chocolate cake…never even thought that is how it becomes a negative calorie cake!!! Cute Jaden!!! Despite other people’s negative comments about it, I think it’s pretty cool to be able to make a cake this fast. Will try to make it one of these days… Thanks Jaden!
The comments on this post are cracking me up!! Love you, Jaden! Damn, I really wish I had a microwave cause I sure could g for some of this magical cake…
cute post – actually got a kick outta reading the comments! LMAO, jeeez people! – would REALLY like to know if it truly works though? Gun shy on baking cakes in microwave – esp. after reading the one post from the non-chocolate lover.
yes of course it works! 😉
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Haha! I see what you did there! Pretty clever idea. I thought for a while it was one of those crazy ideas that the amount of energy the body needs to metabolize the food is greater than the calorie content. That concept is bogus, but I really like yours! And -8 calories just because you said so…damn that’s gold right there! Man I wish I could give you a comedy award ‘cuz you deserve one!
Oh…..my…..the flamers are too much! Get a sense of humor, people. Here’s proof positive that anyone googling “negative calorie cake” deserves what’s coming to them.
Your recipe is cute. Totally dig the creative mathematics. I’m all for rich chocolatey things myself…once in a while: http://culinspiration.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/worlds-best-fudge-brownies-with-gluten-free-variation/
Loved the post. I can’t believe people would get SO upset over such an obvious joke! Love you blog and your recipes. Spot on about the 9pm thingy.
And you can only make up part of a packet of the cake mix at a time and nuke it in a mug for 3 minutes. Oh, I probably shouldn’t have told you that. lol
Is this any good… It looks amazing!!!
HEY! i didn’t know we could substitue oil with a banana.. thanks for the million dollar idea 🙂 love u for it.. if u have more of such awesome ideas then plz plz plz msg me on facebook http://www.facebook.com/shanzupanzu
for now tell me has anyone actually tried this recipe? i haven’t but i wanna know how it is before i try 😛 heheh
Omg. I can’t believe people are so freakin’ uptight!
Jaden, I stumbled upon your website after searching for a good pho recipe. I’ve spent the last hour reading your recipes and comments. Love the food porn, love your sense of humor. And I only clicked on this recipe because you were so clever with the title (likewise with co co fro yo by a fo blo – cute!)
Can’t wait to try some of these recipes!
Wow, a bunch of no-humor (probably very low on blood sugar, more celery, anyone? ) cranky folks here. Are you really that uneducated – nothing is negative calorie. Should have understood its going to be a fuuny recipe right from the title. Enjoy a piece and go for a walk or stop drooling by your PC in search for miracle weight loss foods. Have a fun day !
Wow…so many negative comments. I thought the calorie count was cute! I constantly think of ways I’m burning calories…taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walking with my kids, etc….so I could appreciate the HUMOR in the calorie count.
Cute post, nice recipe, although this would only be one I may make once a month and then work out obsessively for the next week. 🙂
ergh…….if only it was true
Detective Rishfa is on the case!
Just adding banana instead of oil doesn’t make cake negetive calorie.. it can’t be true
I, for one, found this post extremely enjoyable. Jaden, I love your views on calories and I can’t wait to try this recipe with Hawaii’s Apple Bananas-they are so good I don’t eat regular bananas anymore! Will let you know how they fare. Take care and keep up the great posts.
Aloha & Mahalo from *)*_Hawaii_*(*
I guess the only explanation for the comments is most folks find this article while their searching for a low cal cake so it’s disappointing when they realize you’re pulling their leg. The best way to cut calories in a piece of cake is to cut yourself a small piece of cake.
Rose- or not eat the cake at all? 😉
Good Lord yall are some uptight people.
Why do you care what retort she makes to your comment? You have every right to leave a nasty comment – and so does she! It’s her blog!
And if you’re that concerned about all the real calories that’s in a freakin CHOCOLATE CAKE (aka something that will always have more calories than what you want), you shouldn’t be looking at this recipe in the first place!!!!
Go eat a piece of lettuce instead. >.>
Jaden, I thought this was cute and funny. Anyone who actually believes you think you can magically substract calories for silly reasons is a dumbass – and I personally wish they had their posting privileges revoked so that the world would be a nicer place.
Yeah, she’s making a joke, I get that but actually, that’s not what puts me off – it’s the rude retorts to other people’s comments! Jeez, can’t you just tell them to lighten up instead of saying things like ‘no shit dimwit’ or ‘I cant’ wait to see how boring you are in bed’.
And to Sharon saying that people shouldn’t leave those comments – well, if Jaden only wanted comments of adoration, she shouldn’t have enabled comments on the post!
Hahaha You’re awesome.
And I love how people are taking your subtractiveness so seriously.
Thank youuuu for brightening me day.
Hi,
Banana contains of fruit suger and this must be better then oil, as this also gives fiber and other helathy ingredients.. instead of fat…
🙂
Morgan says:
March 8, 2009 at 2:02 pm
“By using that sugary banana (especially a super ripe one)… You’re sticking just as many calories into it as if you were using oil.”
No, by any means a banana is lesser in cals thn oil compared in the same quantity.
The banana she had used is at most 100 cals, and substitutes 1/2 cup of oil (which is about 7.5 tablespoonsful) and each tablespoonful of oil needs at least 100cals.
Source: http://www.dietbites.com/diet-cooking-oil-calories.html
“And NOT doing all of those things listed is really just one more excuse to sit on your fat tush and NOT burn extra calories.
This… Is dumb.
Now, I understand you were trying to be all cute and stuff… But, seriously?”
Hello, like why are you concerned about her burning or not burning calories? What are you to Jaden? If you comment tht she is dumb, please just leave to one of other 315849135 food websites. She did NOT charge any fee for you viewing her website so why is she supposed to customize to your needs. Just grow up and stop being jealous of Jaden.
I found those comments annoying so pardon me from being nosey. However, I LOL for the neg cals part. It was ultimate cute !
HUGS to you! xo, jaden
Your theory is completely wrong.
You don’t subtract calories just because. Yes, you can say that Betty Crocker starts with 230 and subtract from there for things like not using oil. However, you can’t just say that you subtract calories because you “were being clever” or “not looking up a recipe”. Honestly, Looking up a recipe would cause you to move around looking for a recipe, and therefore burn more calories. Sorry, but you would have to be a moron to believe this.
SERIOUSLY? Did sense of humor die this week? ~jaden
Just making sure its clear, as I think some people have missed it – this is a joke! The cake is 280 kcals, as stated in the table. It would be negative calorie if you ran fr an hour while eating it!
By using that sugary banana (especially a super ripe one)… You’re sticking just as many calories into it as if you were using oil. And NOT doing all of those things listed is really just one more excuse to sit on your fat tush and NOT burn extra calories.
This… Is dumb.
Now, I understand you were trying to be all cute and stuff… But, seriously?
hmmm….no sense of humor? I’d love to see how boring you are in bed ~jaden
This recipe looks delicious! And so quick and easy. I love the idea of using the banana! I imagine you are right in your post, this is prob something that I will whip up at about 9 pm to satisfy my chocolate craving 🙂
Jaden; Our cakes would be only a delicious! Negative… ‘one'(1).
We can’t claim..> “For being so clever – who else would combine BettyC+banana+micro ? -23”
And; …> “For…um….just because I said so -8” (Proprietary)
Thanks! Jaden
PS! Will rubbing Bananas ripen them quicker?
Now where are my Ramekins?
Im pretty sure that rubbing them wont make them ripen faster; it will however damage the peel making it appear riper. if you take a fork and make marks on the peel it will brown in the spots that were broken from the prongs because the sugar in the peel browns. you just have to wait to have it ripen.
OH MY GOD!
I’ve almost got a heart attack! Seeing the title and the first photo together made my brain explode!
Very great idea! I must try it!
And I love your calories count ^^
LOL….That cake looks way to good to be that many calories.I mean,if you wanna see and eat a cake that good…you will have to go to Olive Garden and look on their dessert menu.
But I don’t buy this for a second.
Dan- NO SHIT DIMWIT.
Since when does saving time, saving energy, or not having to look up a fancy recipe burn calories? Or just because you say so??? Something tells me this cake is not negative calories.
no, sorry I don’t!
you can mix the entire batch, scoop out what you want in your ramekin and rest of batter in refrigerator.
omg, looks delicious. and easy! Do you have any idea how much chocolate cake mix, eggs, and banana would be needed for just two ramikins. I’d love to be able to take a spoonful of mix + the appropriate amount of the remaining ingredients and just make 2 ramekins full. Instant portion control for a young couple! 🙂
Great! Now you have made me go out and buy a boxed cake with hydrogenated oils in it. White flour is a no no. I threw my microwave out 6 years ago. How do you suggest cooking it to keep it moist without using the dangerous microwave. I have nothing else on my mind for the last 48 hours but the picture of that cake. DCL
So…I was just looking up a recipe for cooking a tender steak and stumbled upon this hillarious bit of genius! I’ll most likely try this “negative calorie” recipe but will definately remember the laugh I’ve gotten from visiting this site tonight.
An alternative I loved was using canned pumpkin pie filling, mixing with cake mix and no other ingredients, and baking for around half the time on the package (maybe nuking will work?)
Either way: Heavenly.
LOL! I love your math. It does look pretty good, though!
Wow this is amazing and if its this low in calories my food blog would love it! Perhaps you should stop by and have a look? Any advice you can give me would be great!
Stumbled across this while searching for a box cake recipe–read all the way down, had some good laughs, and then discovered—you are the funny lady who writes a column where I live! I’m always reading it to my hubby. I love it! Keep on makin’ us laugh!
So before I tell all my friends – can you CONFIRM that this cake when you say is a NEGATIVE calorie cake – to me when you say negative calories – it means that the MORE you EAT – the MORE you LOOSE – dont’ want to appear as a laughing stock ….thanks !
Oh great! I’m glad you liked it. I’ve not tried freezing, so let me know how it comes out!
xo, jaden
wow, this was surprisingly good, and so easy! I started making it before I realized I only had one egg! it worked just fine with the one though, I also used milk instead of water, and just a tablespoon of unsweetened applesauce along with the banana. My question is, can you freeze it? I made it just for two people so there was so much left that I didn’t want to bake up just yet, I’m going to try and freeze one of the ramekins and put the rest in the refrigerator (will probably make them tomorrow) so hopefully they will turn out! thanks!
Oh definately going on my must try list!!! Sounds yummy!!!
There is one more thing you can do with the Betty Crocker batter and it works best when your using their brownie mix. My girlfriend Daphne will split the batter make a small batch of brownies with one half but with the other half she nukes it for 45 to 60 seconds and pours the subsequent hot fudge it creates over vanilla ice cream OMG!
About that link to the market w/white boy…
How is pork uterus cooked/served? Or should that be uteri?
Curiously yours,
Gwen the pork eater
…this was sooo good – I used half a smushed up banana and a whole egg and about 1/3 cup cake mix with bittersweet chocolate chunks….I didn’t do separate ramekins…just mixed it in a small pyrex bowl and nuked it in the same. This was very yummy!!! No fuss, no mess, quick chocolate fix 🙂 (can we take off 20 more calories for using just one bowl 😉
I tried this just now and gave them to my mom, sister, bro, and bro in law! I left 2 for me and my husband! it’s so easy to make and so cool! I love the part wherein the cakes go up and down in the microwave! thanks a lot for sharing the recipe! I’ll definitely serve this this coming xmas!
and it’s hot. 🙂 sorry….I’m the grammar nazi….
Shawn-
Chinglish, baby…I speak Chinglish.
😉
jaden
this is the only time that I’ve ever seen (not just a negative calorie chocolate cake, which is also a first) someone accidentally put “its,” when they should’ve had “it’s.”
It’s like I’m living in Crazy-ville. but…seriously….thanks for the recipe. 🙂
You should make a video tutorial of this recipe and post it on makemysupper.com. People would love to see how you make this cake!
That must be it — but the tea gods still love me!
Alia- It didn’t work for you because there is a general rule in the universe about people who dislike chocolate trying to make chocolate desserts. Pisses off the chocolate gods, you know?
The photo looked so luscious, and the recipe so simple and fast, I had to try it. I needed some chocolate in the bakery case at my teahouse, but I couldn’t get anything from my caterers’ with no day’s notice. And I had a couple of very gone bananas. I used the Betty Crocker Dark Chocolate mix. Not having ramekins, I used stemmed water glasses, for a parfait sort of thing. I had some blackberry pie filling which I augmented with some Greek brandy…So, an inch of batter, a dollop of blackberry, a dollop of batter, and into the mike it went for 2 minutes. It was fun to watch it grow and try to take over the microwave.
Now, you may find this strange, but I don’t actually like chocolate. Really. Milk chocolate gives me a headache, fudge will make me nauseous. So, I had to use others as guinea pigs. And the verdict was: tough, and not all that tasty. Particularly when it got cold. Which is kind of what I expected…microwaving cake!! (Moreover, I am one of those people who reads labels, so I almost never use cake mixes. Do you guys read those things?! Yikes!) I don’t know whether it was because the cake-parfaits were cooled and maybe you folks ate them still hot, but cold they were very lifeless. ‘Minded me of brown foam insulation.
Oh, how I wanted it to be fabulous! But it wasn’t. Alas.
Hmm.. This should make me feel better about that Steak and shredded cheese Baked Potato dinner I made today.. /)_(\
A cake with NEGATIVE calories that will make me feel so damn guilty, until I hit my head with the palm of my hand and say “Oh I forgot—negative calories..”
I know who would love this recipe..my sisters, lol. If you ever wanna check out some more recipes you could try http://www.lovemyphilly.com has lots of cool recipes
I ate 30 of these and I have disappeared. What do I do now?
You can also drizzle Monavie on the cake. It is all natural, made up of 19 fruits including the acai berry. Tastes great!
http://www.mymonavie.com/richardfamily
PS Cant wait to try the no knead bread
I loved the idea of a banana chocolate cake and tried it last night with a standard pan instead of ramekins. Turned out delightful.
My grandson loved it too, the little monkey.
Hi… I stumbled upon your site and I tried making your negative chocolate cake…
except I didn’t have any chocolate cake… but I DID have Betty Crocker’s golden cake.
Soooo I threw that in a bowl with a smushed up banana, water, eggs and ….hmmm… I HAD to throw in something else to make up for the absolute lack of chocolate cake-ness… so I had a 1/2 an Aero chocolate bar (how that survived around here, I don’t know), that I broke up, and a handful of chocolate chips… and microwaved it, oh- for about 12 minutes- and voila! Chocolate Banana Microwave cake!
Next time I would add an additional banana, to make it more banana-y, if I was going to sitck with the golden flavor cake.
Thanks for the ideas– I can make up so many fast cake recipes like this!
Sounds very interesting You’ve a unique way of baking… I’m going to have to give this a whirl!
This is so fabulous what a great recipe!
Beautiful site, gorgeous pictures, clever and witty and I cannot wait to get home and do something with that dang brown banana that I wouldn’t let my daugther have this morning!
I’ll be back for more!
Garrett- HOLY BLOW MY TONGUE OFF!!! A whole can of chipotle+adobo????
*psh* I love easy recipes. One of my most popular cupcake recipes was one using a can of chipotle chilies in adobo sauce, cinnamon, and a box of devil’s food cake mix. Fan-frickin tastic. 🙂
What a clever idea! This is just perfect when you need a quick, elegant dessert (or a fast midnight snack). I made it the other night with a little puddle of raspberry coulis. Quick. Easy. Delicious!
wohoooooooooo… my new diet food 😉 LOL jaden, i am laughing like a mad woman sitting in my office and just imagine the look of my boss who sits right in front of me 😉
Now you have me jonesing for chocloate cake you evil seductress you!
I haven’t tried this chocolate cake yet – but absolutely it will be one of my lists.
I did though make black forest chocolate cake from Pillsbury Devil cake. It turned out very good and simple!
D’oh! If only I had a microwave, I would be ALL OVER THIS.
This is great Jaden! I love your whole attitude about this cake! You took the cake mix out of the box, but you also used it THINKING outside the box as well! Very well done! I am sure lots of people will be trying your version of this cake. Personally I love the whole pomegranate drizzle! –
No WAY. No WAY. I’m making this tomorrow. I’ll send you a picture.
Hey, thanks for the POMWonderful plug…that’s one of our sister companies! Can’t wait to try this at home!!
That is one gorgeous looking cake … so very sinful yet not. 🙂
what a gorgeous choc cake! yummy 🙂
Joey- serve to your guests and don’t even tell them that you nuked it!
Gertrude- tell your husband its good for him
Leslie- i LOVE your blog too!
Chubby Panda- wait until I publish my negative calorie french fries
Elaine- I have a handy pocket calculator that I take shopping with me too
Zoomie- oh I’m happy that you enjoyed the market trip – it was fun giving the meat tour
BBO- i love u guys!
Mona- Thank you!
Caitlyn- I’m working on it!
Erin- yeah, perfect way to describe the cake “girlie girl in a pinch snack”
Spamfan- oh DON’T YOU DARE!! 😉
Holy moses – this is a freaking dessert! I was trying to figure out how to add SPAM to it, but I think I’ll just wait and catch the next one.
I can’t believe that lovely little cake came out of the microwave! Hilarious commentary. I so have to try this. It sounds like the perfect girlie girl “in a pinch” snack.
You are *hilarious* Jaden! =) Hehehehehehee! Please keep the “negative calorie” recipes coming!
jaden, you are a baker!!!
I like your rationale for toting up the non-calories and loved, loved the visit to the Chinese market, too! A true bonus! I laughed out loud!
Oh my, I was wondering how you’ve calculated a neg calorie for this sinful looking molten chocolate cake…aaand based on your calculations, you’re right…it is negative! O_O
holy moly, if this isn’t the holy grail of food! 😛
Mommy, I’m scared! j/k. It looks remarkably good, considering how it was made. Nurture over nature, eh?
Please tell me how I never found this blog before today.
I LOVE your writing style – hilarious. And beautiful food too.
*runs off to add to faves*
I see negative calorie chocolate in my future…..
Ms Jaden, i am a huge fan of your blog and all the food that you cooked. Been showing all the yummy dishes on your blog to my husband and he wanted me to make him this neg. calorie choc. cake. He said it won’t feel guilty eating it 😉
This post is pure genius! I am definitely trying this! It looks like something from a fancy restaurant! 😉 Ooooh…I am still shaking my head in wonder! Negative calories…you will be mine! 🙂
Amie- peanut butter….ooooooohhhhh….add a spoonful in the middle of each ramkein!
SGourmet- Its a very very Suburban-Gourmet-ish recipe!
Patricia- oh, thats my next invention
Jennifer- i hope you take pics and post…let me know and I’ll link to it
Kirk- have thirds while you’re at it!
Julie- aww shucks…thanks
BBO- ok. sounds good. the next time that Food Network calls I’ll let them know that I’m a baker too!
Jeff- baby got back!
Tfish-exactly!!!
Carol- i warned you missy…but nooooo….you couldn’t resist clicking!
Ed- and a glass of negative calorie Port
Jaden – I am blown away by the pictures on your blog. They all look amazing! And I can’t wait to try the negative calorie chocolate cake. Perhaps with a scoop of negative calorie chocolate ice cream.
HA!HA! I love this post, Jaden, you never cease to crack me up, Yeah, I WISH there actually was such a thing as a Negative Calorie Chocolate ANYTHING!
Oh, but those horrible offal images, I should have been warned, my stomach did a flip, a somersault, urghhhh. I think I need to go lie down..
I would like to try that. Now I know why I can’t bake. Because… I have not explored negative calorie cooking!
Turn around. Stick it out. Even white boys got to shout.
“BBO- does nuking in microwave count as baking?”
Well as long it is a good cake even it was nuke in microwave it does count as baking. Looks so yummy, sure taste gorgeous.
“BBO- does nuking in microwave count as baking?”
Well as long it is a good cake even it was nuke in microwave it does count as baking. Looks so yummy, sure taste gorgeous.
You are my new favorite person lol….looks wonderful.
Negative calorie!!! Well I think I’ll have seconds…. Fabulous things come out of the Steamy Kitchen.
I’m trying this tonight. Most of the time, I see your photos, read your entry, and think “I’ll try that next time I’m in the mood for ____” and promptly forget. Not this time. I went out and got Betty Crocker cake mix on my lunch break. Also, I’ll be trying the applesauce variation since I have no overripe bananas. I love that this won’t get my apartment hot!
That is just what I needed right now – too bad I can’t get through the computer screen!
Holy smokes! This is pure genius! I can’t wait to try this… Oh man, I’m impressed!
I make a similar cake using sour cream instead of milk and oil. I love adding peanut butter chips to the batter. Makes a glorious cake.
Sage Cat- Great! This shall justify the superhero tiara that I just bought for myself!
Ellie- use whatever cake mix you have!
LPC- that cleverness just won you another -11 cal
Deb- why thank you!
Dave- try egg substitute? or applesauce instead of egg? I haven’t tried …but its worth experimenting
Glenna- thank you!
Argus- oh wow – I can deduct another 35 calories
Brilynn- but like a child I cannot keep secrets…I get too excited and just want to blurt it out to the world!
Meeso- thanks!
Amy- you’re right – dark chocolate is worth another handful of calories
EW Kitchen- my math skills are excellent, huh?
Kitt- yes…evil temptress! That shall be my superhero name!
WMW- order is on the way!
Lisa- why didn’t i think of that???? I didn’t walk to the store, but I sure pushed the shopping cart when I shopped.
Melinda- I vote for someone to come up with a negative calorie ice cream!
Sandi- yeah, i sure wish life worked that way
Kat- try with a different brand of cake mix!
JEP- i’ll make sure that your patients don’t find my blog!
Lynn- your grandpa is brilliant
Sarah Marie- let me know how it turns out…I know your husband will like it!
Renee- great ideas! I think I’m going to try brandy soaked cherries.
JoJo- I didn’t see that episode, but now I want to find it. I wonder if I can find on youtube?
BBO- does nuking in microwave count as baking?
Lydia- I owe my success to my 2nd grade math teacher
Nandita- can’t wait for u to try it. Email me when you have a post and i’ll link to it
Jacey- thank you!
Lisa – my new diet will be a worldwide fad
Danielle- LOL! He’ll have to make this cake for you tonight
Inne- hmmm…photographing the cake is worth at least another 38 calories, right?
Coffee- Good thing I don’t teach math skills in my cooking classes!
Now you are too much dear Jaden!! 😉 You are mighty good at math I must say…. How did you become a cooking instructor??!! 😛
The ramekien is to die for!!! Lusciouly moist…. I can see it all from here… Just fabulous.
I love your reasoning, Jaden! And I think you can substract some more calories for the photographing, writing and blogging about your chocolate cake.
Must show this post to my partner – he doesn’t normally read any food blogs (apart from mine) but he read your coconut cracking post and thought it very funny.
My partner found this before I did, and he was laughing uproariously across the room before I opened up Bloglines to see what was going in.
“Do you read Steamy Kitchen?” he demanded. “She’s hilarious!”
So, you have a two out of three approval rating in our household (we haven’t shown your website to the cat yet).
Well it’s no wonder how you keep your beautiful figure! Very impressive. 😀
I’d like to get in on those informercials.. I do an oustanding impression of Carol Merrill on the showcase floor!
Also – thanks for the link to Side Salad – hysterical!
xoxo
Wow, that’s absolutely something I will like to try 🙂 Yuuuummmmm!
It is very difficult to believe that the luscious cake in the photo can actually be done in microwave in a jiffy, i have the same box of betty crocker at home – and i’m home alone, so may be i shall try this out – I LOVED your math for arriving at the negative calorie bit, TOTALLY AGREE!!!
Hats off to the math teacher who taught you how to subtract calories from chocolate cake! Brilliant!!
Ain’t it look gorgeous……… as gorgeous as the chef herself!
There you are, …………..you can really bake well, we love it!
jaden – this reminds me of — do you remember that episode of “friends” in which monica saved for years the best chocolate chip cookie from phoebe but then phoebe ate it, and told monica that her grandmother said the recipe was from nes- lay tou – loose -ah. then monica goes nuts guessing the recipe until she finds out that it’s …………..
jaden – this reminds me of — do you remember that episode of “friends” in which monica saved the best chocolate chip cookie from phoebe but then phoebe ate it, and told monica that her grandmother said the recipe was from nes- lay tou – loose -ah. then monica goes nuts guessing the recipe until she finds out that it’s …………..
Jaden, if you want molten lava cake, mix 1 1/2 cups skim milk with a package of chocolate pudding and pie filling (4 serving size, the kind you have to cook on the stove). Mix it really well, and pour it over the top. This works in the oven poured over brownie batter in a 2 quart baking round baking dish, but I’m thinking you might have to cook the pie filling before pouring it over the batter if you’re cooking it in the microwave. You might also want to consider a dollop of raspberry, apricot, or cherry preserves instead of chocolate.
Love your calorie counting math! This looks delicious, and so easy. My husband would gobble it up! I’ll have to try it soon.
My grampa always used to say that you burned up more calories eating ice cream than were in the ice cream because your body had to warm it up. If you put a scoop of ice cream on your brilliant cake, it would positively be diet food. Bring on the infomercial!
I am a dietitian—this is so clever!! BTW—don’t let my patient’s read this 🙂
no betty crocker here either 🙁 love your calorie counter, I should get one too!
Could I get you to balance my checkbook, and while you’re at it would you call American Express for me, and re-negotiate my mortgage, and…
LOL
I read your post out loud to my husband…he hates it when I do that. But he thought it was good fun and hilarious too
I like the way you count calories and what you eat with them.
Can you do ‘negative calorie ice cream and alcohol’ ?
But wait, there’s more! I’ll also burn calories by walking to the store in the August heat to buy a Betty Crocker cake mix; after eating my first serving, making several trips back into the kitchen to steal a few extra bites; fending off others who want me to share; and of course, all that mouth movement as I devour this decadent treat–I think that puts me at -132 calories. You are indeed a genius!
Can you Fed-Ex 300 of that to me???After eating all of them I should be half of what I am now with all the negative calories combined! LOL…….
You are an evil temptress, you know that?
Brilliant!!! Interesting recipe and outstanding math skills! 🙂
Sheer brilliance! The cake, the calorie counter, everything! Adding dark chocolate to the center of the cake is definitely more negative calories, dark chocolate is good for you! Raspberries too, even more negative calories. 😀
This post has me laughing, and salivating!!!!
You know, you could have told us you slaved for hours over this cake and that it’s a family secret never to be shared and we would have believed you…
Negative calories! You’re too funny, Steamy.
Try putting in sour red currants, jarred cherries or dried cranberries?
And for blogging about it, minus another 12 calories, girl!
(While you’re at it, minus another 15 calories for taking the luscious photos) 😉
Gawd, I love the way you think!
I’ve been enjoying your blog for the past week or so, thought I’d leave my first comment…
Any chance of blogging on a delicious-looking chocolate cake like this, but without the eggs? My family is vegetarian, and half of us are allergic to eggs as well.
Also– I loved the coconut entry. Sounds like my first experience with those stubborn things!
Sheer brilliance. I love the way you think.
“Negative calories”, eh? Sooo … the more I eat … the thinner I become … Mary!! I’m off to Kroger again!!!
I would dump this into a wide shallow bowl and add a scoop-or-two of real Denali Moose Tracks ice cream. And maybe some raspberry sauce and a squiggle of Hershey dark chocolate syrup! 😀
Darn you, woman! We get no Betty Crocker love here in Australia 🙁 🙁 🙁 After all that anticipation from seeing the photo on Flickr….noooooooooo!
Love your calorie counting, btw 😉 Very clever!
Not only do you have a beautiful site with gorgeous photos and yummy recipes, but you came up with a Negative Calorie Chocolate Cake!
You’re my hero. 😉