December 28, 2018

Peanut Butter Mug Cake – Low Carb Recipe

Name: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mug Cakes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 6 min
Ingredients: 1/3 cup peanut butter; 1/4 cup butter; 2/3 cup almond flour; 1/3 cup Swerve Sweetener; 2 tsp baking powder; 2 large eggs; 1/2 tsp vanilla extract; 1/4 cup water; 3 tbsp dark chocolate chips, sugar-free

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Peanut butter mug cake is a fabulous way to start off the new year, especially when it’s sugar free. This delicious low carb mug cake recipe takes only minutes to make, and it’s peanut butter and chocolate. How can you go wrong? Instructional video included.

Friends, you have got to make this easy Peanut Butter Mug Cake Recipe to celebrate the start of a new year. I first published this recipe in 2015 but I recently updated this mug cake recipe to make it lower in carbs but just as delicious.

It’s beyond easy to make and I often whip them up when I have nothing to feed my kids on a weekday morning. You don’t see them complaining, trust me!

Do you eat any traditional or lucky foods on New Year’s Day?

Until a few years ago, I had no idea that there were “lucky foods”. As a kid I ate whatever my parents happened to serve and there were no traditional first-day-of-the-year foods in our house. I do remember some lovely brunches with quiche and croissants. And later on, I ate whatever foods my queasy stomach could handle after a night of celebrating and drinking too much.

But black-eyed peas, cabbage and sauerkraut or pickled herring? No, these lucky foods never graced my New Year’s Day table. And apparently I never suffered much ill luck from not partaking. Mind you, perhaps I would have had even BETTER luck if I had consumed a pickled herring on New Year’s morn.

Perhaps I missed my chance at fame and fortune. We will never know, will we?

You know what I think is lucky? Discovering the low carb diet and falling in love with creating recipes that seem indulgent but are actually healthy. That’s my kind of luck, right there. I also think peanut butter and chocolate are lucky, especially when they come together in one package, like a low carb peanut butter mug cake recipe.

You’re lucky when you have the chance to eat peanut butter and chocolate together for breakfast without derailing your gluten-free diet.

You’re particularly lucky when said breakfast is ALSO low carb and takes all of about 3 minutes to whip up, because then you can make some for the whole family before they are even awake. That’s what the peanut butter chocolate mug cakes are!

Doesn’t it feel great (and lucky) to be able to create a healthy breakfast treat that meets with everyone’s approval, all in the time it takes to make your morning coffee? Yep, that’s my definition of lucky.

So eat a peanut butter mug cake and revel in your luck. May the coming year bring you much lucky low carb goodness! To your health.

How to make Peanut Butter Mug Cake

A few tips for making this easy keto mug cake recipe:

This recipe makes 6 small mug cakes. That works out well for my hungry family of five. But as you can see in the video, it’s easy to cut the recipe in half.

Peanut butter tends to thicken cake batters the longer it sits, so you need to work quickly on this one, getting it into the mugs or ramekins as soon as it’s all mixed together.

Readers have asked if they can whip up the batter and then refrigerate the cakes until they are ready to make them. Because the batter thickens so much with the peanut butter, this does not work well. You are better off cooking the cake and then re-warming it when you are ready to eat.

Allergens: You can use any nut butter here, so if you are allergic to peanuts, feel free to sub in almond butter. You can also sub in coconut oil if you need to be dairy free.

We just eat them right out of the mugs but if you want to remove them, be sure to grease your mugs or ramekins very well.

Oven-baking: I realize that not everyone uses a microwave. You can also bake these at 350F for about 15 minutes.

More Great Keto Mug Cakes

Snickerdoodle Mug Cake

Lemon Blueberry Mug Cake

Chocolate Hazelnut Mug Cake

Vanilla Berry Mug Cake

Lemon Mug Cake

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mug Cakes

Start the new year off right with a delicious low carb mug cake. It's ridiculously easy and it's peanut butter and chocolate. How can you go wrong?

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Dessert

Keyword mug cakes, peanut butter mug cake

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 1 minute

Total Time 6 minutes

Servings mug cakes

Calories 210kcal

Ingredients

1/3 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
2/3 cup almond flour
1/3 cup Swerve Sweetener
2 tsp baking powder
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup water
3 tbsp dark chocolate chips, sugar-free

Instructions

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt peanut butter and butter together until smooth.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, sweetener, and baking powder. Stir in the eggs, vanilla extract, melted peanut butter mixture and water until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Divide among 6 ramekins or mugs and microwave each for 1 minute, until puffed and set. Serve warm.

Notes

Dairy-Free: Sub coconut oil for the butter.

Nutrition

Please note that I am not a medical or nutritional professional. I am simply recounting and sharing my own experiences on this blog. Nothing I express here should be taken as medical advice and you should consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program. I provide nutritional information for my recipes simply as a courtesy to my readers. It is calculated using MacGourmet software and I remove erythritol from the final carb count and net carb count, as it does not affect my own blood glucose levels. I do my best to be as accurate as possible but you should independently calculate nutritional information on your own before relying on them. I expressly disclaim any and all liability of any kind with respect to any act or omission wholly or in part in reliance on anything contained in this website.

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