Snickers for best chocolate bar, Watermelon Sour Patch Kids for best fruity/sour, and jawbreakers overall. Specifically the jawbreakers so large you can’t fit them in your mouth.
Recipe: add a teaspoon of mayonnaise to your chocolate mug cake to keep it moist! Me, physically recoiling from the screen: WHAT NO
This functionally amounts to adding a bit of extra fat (oil, butter or whatever), egg and vinegar. I'm not sure if the vinegar would be a good idea, but the two others are probably pretty good for a cake. (though I wouldn't recommend mayonnaise for this purpose, since it probably includes stuff like mustard because otherwise it tastes like basically nothing)
Apparently, the idea is that vinegar and the tiny bit of mustard (which isn't there that often in US-made mayo, and apparently technically makes it a rémoulade) actually go really well with chocolate. I'm kind of willing to believe this given that chocolate was originally paired with red pepper, but... It still just feels wrong.
Vinegar is not a particularly weird cake ingredient, I used it I think in a chocolate cake recipe before? It doesn't make your cake taste like vinegar. I forget the point of putting it in but there was one. Mayo in the US is sold as both adulterated (Sriracha, ranch, lemon-dill, etc.) and unadulterated, so a plain mayo is just gonna be your basic egg-oil emulsion and it can be used in some cases as a sub for oil or eggs or other things. I agree the idea is a bit off putting, but the outcome wouldn't be so weird.
i’ve seen some ppl use mayo in cakes and APPARENTLY it turns out fine, but maaan, when i want extra moist cake i just put pudding mix in
Why would I use mayo when I have perfectly good cream Or coconut oil, or butter, or milk, or cheese, fuckin anything which isn't just going to congeal into semi-translucent jellified yack Put mayo on sandwiches, chips, on your damn waffles, idc, you live your best life. but in cake, man. what.
Egg whites. Personally, I'd rather just use straight egg whites. I grok that mayo is pretty much Just That, but getting the egg white is a fun experience for me, so I'll stick with those.
It's probably because mayo is something people usually have on hand and is low spoons since mug cake is usually a pretty low spoons thing
Late to the party bc I stopped getting notifications: Hot chocolate with cinnamon is way better than regular, and should be made two parts almond milk, one part cinnamon chocolate powder Favorite chocolate filling is orange or cayenne pepper Favorite candybar is white chocolate cookies and cream, or the wide variety that is kitkats Last, a question: dandelions are delicious, yes or no?
as a horrible gremlin child who once ate dandelion leaves right off the ground: yes but only the flowers (and that when prepared, imo jelly is best), sap is way too bitter for the leaves to be appealing
If you pick them fresh before they have had a chance to flower they're much milder. This is the case with pretty much every leafy green. Once it bolts, it's bitter.
