In this travel edition of Mad Genius Trips, star chef Kristen Kish shares her ultimate easy recipe: chocolate mug cake.
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I'm Justin Chapel from Food & Wine's test kitchen and
I'm at the Food & Wine classic in Aspen hitting
up my favorite chefs for their mad genius tips. That
is mad genius. I am here with my friend Top
Chef, Kristen Kish and she is an ice cream super
fan. Kristen, I have to ask. Do you have an
imaginative use for ice cream? I do. If you take
a half-eaten pint of ice cream, add a couple of
ingredients, throw it in the microwave, and you have instant
cake. That is mad genius. I can't wait to get
back to the kitchen and check it out for myself.
I love Kristen's idea for almost instant cake so much.
And I'm so excited to show you how genius it
is. So what I'm starting with is about a half
a pint of chocolate ice cream because I love chocolate.
I would say it's about three quarters of a cup
and what I'm gonna do is add about a third
of a cup of cake flour a half a teaspoon
of baking powder I'm just gonna take a cute little
whisk, mix it up, and I have this perfectly smooth
cake batter. And what I wanna do is put it
into a microwave safe mug, pour it right in there,
and now for the fun part. We're gonna pop it
in the microwave for about two minutes. We're gonna check
it every 30 seconds until it's puffed and beautiful. [MUSIC]
Just keep an eye on the cake, you'll see them
it will slowly start to rise and when it gets
to the top of the mug you wanna put it
out. I'm watching my cake. You see that it puffed
up a little bit, and then it settled nice and
gently, and because I love a little powdered sugar I'm
gonna top it with a little of that, and now
the best part. I get to dig in. [MUSIC] Fluffy.
[MUSIC] It's so good. It's always like molten chocolate cake.
And it's so fun and it's mad genius. [BLANK_AUDIO]