If you love mug cake recipes, you’re in the right place. I love making them all the time as a quick snack, and I’ve created many recipes over the years, like my Vegan Pumpkin Mug Cake, Oatmeal Mug Cake, or Chocolate Mug Cake. This new recipe is vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free. Most vegan mug cake recipes won’t come out well if all-purpose flour is swapped for all-purpose gluten-free flour. This simply doesn’t work and makes mug cakes ultra-dense and thick. So to make a gluten-free mug cake, you need a specific gluten-free chocolate mug cake recipe.
Ingredients and Substitutions
The best ingredients to make a really tasty fluffy and moist chocolate gluten-free mug cake are:
Almond Flour – You can use ultra-fine almond flour or almond meal. All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour – Any blend that is listed as a 1:1 ratio swap to regular wheat flour works. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – I like to use sugar-free cocoa powder or cacao powder to make it easier to balance the sweetness. Granulated Sweetener – You can use sugar, coconut sugar, or natural sugar-free crystal sweeteners like erythritol or allulose. This saves you 92 kcal for a mug cake and cuts the sugar to 2 grams per serving, so it’s my go-to option. Baking Powder – to give this mug cake a more airy texture. Almond Milk or any plant-based milk you love. Vanilla Extract – for flavor. Apple Cider Vinegar – this enhances the texture of the crumb.
How To Make Vegan Gluten-Free Mug Cake
The best way to make a moist, fluffy, spongy gluten-free chocolate cake without eggs is to use a combination of gluten-free flour. In fact, using only an all-purpose gluten-free blend always makes vegan cakes dense and gummy.
Serving
This vegan, gluten-free mug cake is delicious plain or even better with some of the below toppings:
Dollop coconut yogurt or soy yogurt Sprinkles Protein frosting Peanut butter or almond butter Unsweetened whipped cream A scoop of dairy-free vanilla ice cream More chocolate chips on top Unsweetened desiccated coconut
Below are my answers to your most frequent questions about this vegan, gluten-free mug cake recipe.
1-2 teaspoons of peanut butter or Biscoff spread 1 gluten-free Oreo crumbled into pieces 1 tablespoon of chopped almonds or walnuts 1 tablespoon of raspberries fresh or frozen 1 tablespoon of unsweetened desiccated coconut 1 tablespoon of dairy-free white chocolate chips
Nut-Free – You can replace the almond flour with gluten-free oat flour. Check how to make homemade oat flour. Or sesame flour or sunflower seed flour works as well in the same ratio. Keep in mind that these last two flour have a slightly bitter flavor. Also, swap almond milk for soy milk or coconut milk, or any non-dairy nut-free milk. Cocoa-Free – I tried 1 1/2 tablespoons of coconut flour and increased the milk to 5 tablespoons, instead of cocoa powder. It makes a denser cake but still tasty gluten-free vegan vanilla mug cake. Sugar-Free – This recipe works very well with natural sugar-free sweeteners like erythritol or allulose. It cuts the sugar to 2 grams per serving and the total calories per serving to 210 kcal.
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