Illusions of a single serving

I have long been enamored with the idea of a single serving of something delicious because for a long time I have lived alone and there is nothing like baking a batch of cookies, a cake, or a pie and knowing beyond all doubt that I am going to eat the whole thing. I have learned to cut recipes in parts and then use that to my advantage or sometimes I would take stuff up to my office and just let them eat it. But I really really love to bake and I love home cooked sweets, now don't get me wrong I also love having someone else make me something yummy but if I make it at least I know what is in it.

I joined pinterest several months ago and I am not going to lie when I saw the pins for brownies in a mug or a cake in a mug I was intrigued. So I first made the brownie and it was way too bitter for me, I chalked this up to getting the amount of cocca powder slightly wrong or not having any ice cream to slather on top because ice cream makes everything better. That one was horrible so I moved onto a vanilla cake in a mug... there are no words for how inedible it was. It was like chewing on a sponge with no flavor. After those two experiences I vowed to never make anything in a mug again. EVER.

Then out of the blue I found a pin for a single serving of chocolate chip cookies in a mug, you can find the original recipe here. It was the picture that drew me in, this looks just like a cookie cake. I will admit that I thought about making this for about a week until I was home alone and looking for something to do, that is not a good combo.

So first I get out my ingredients, I was convinced that this was going to so yummy that I was going to be able to share my adventures with you so I took lots of photos. Since I took all of these photos I am going to share them with you.

All my ingredients, yes I used real butter I figured this recipe would need lots of help.

So at this point I follow all of the directions, that I am not going to reproduce since you can look them up yourself if you are sure that you want to. But after I mixed everything together in this little ramekin thing. I did taste it at this point, it does taste like cookie dough. It wasn't as amazing as some that I have had but it was good enough that I didn't toss it right then and there.

After mixing before microwaving, looks like cookie dough

 So I pop this sucker in the microwave and give it a minute.. maybe that was too long but I peaked at 40 seconds and it didn't really look like the picture. So after 60 seconds of waiting... I was pretty pumped at this point, also since I made it in the dish that I cooked it in there wasn't a whole lot of clean up just putting stuff away.

At the end of the cooking

 So I pull the cookie out of the microwave and look at it. This doesn't look like the picture online but then again when you cook out of a magazine it never looks like the pic so I wasn't overly concerned. I grab my fork, which was not far away. I take the first bite expecting to be so satisfied with this cookie... I wasn't satisfied at all. It tasted like flour with chocolate chips in it. So I started eating in the corner so I taste a little from the center... still not awesome.

Plan B: add bluebell homemade vanilla ice cream

So I moved onto Plan B, add ice cream. Now that I live in Texas there is always Bluebell vanilla ice cream in the freezer and I added a little of that to the top and let it melt a little. I figured this was the best hope for my single serving disaster. Well it wasn't any better, it was actually a little worse. Now it was good ice cream with crunchy flour and chocolate chips. I just ate the ice cream.

So I tell you this not so that you can fix this recipe but so that you can not try it. Learn from me, there is no such thing as a single serving that you can make in the microwave. Maybe you could try it in a toaster oven but I think I am done with these single serving items. I have learned that people who eat these and say how yummy they are must be on a diet or something. This was horrible I would rather make cookies.