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Coffee Cake in a Mug

Americanmedium4 servings
Coffee Cake in a Mug

Ingredients

  • tablespoon butter
  • teaspoon swhite sugar
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • tablespoon applesauce, or as needed
  • 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
  • dropsvanilla extra ct, or to taste
  • pinch salt
  • teaspoon sall-purpose flour
  • teaspoon butter
  • teaspoon brown sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Heat 1 tablespoon butter in a microwave safe mug until softened, about 10 seconds. Stir white sugar into butter until dissolved. Mix 1/4 cup flour, applesauce, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt into butter sugar mixture until batter is smooth.
  2. Mix 2 teaspoons flour, 1 teaspoon butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon together in a bowl using your hands until the texture of lumpy sand is reached; sprinkle over batter.
  3. Cook in the microwave until coffeecake appears to be barely set, 50 to 80 seconds. Cool before eating.