009: #EasyKETO Chef: Microwave CHOCO MUG CAKE

Great day Low Carbers! 😇 We commemorate March 4 every year as World Obesity Day! Let’s #FightObesity and #FightMetabolicSyndrome! It’s the Low Carb Health Doctor chef in the house! And as promised I'm going to give you low-carb/keto tips every now and then to help you live your low carb lifestyle effectively, practically and deliciously! This is the first. Watch out for many others to follow soon! There’s this amazing device called a microwave oven – and I'm sure you've got one of your own there somewhere in your own place! The good news is: you can do great keto stuff with it! Together with this wonderful device called the microwave oven safe mug, we can create something wonderful that’s very appealing to our keto taste buds. We shall call it the #EasyKETO Microwave Choco Mug Cake! #EasyKETO Microwave CHOCO MUG CAKE INGREDIENTS (*those underscored are with Amazon links, all curated ingredients are available in the Low Carb Health Doctor Shop – Global and Low Carb Health Doctor Shop - PHILIPPINES) Butter, melted – 1 tbsp (14 g) Coconut flour – 1 tbsp (8.5g) [ALTERNATIVE: Almond flour 3tbsp (25.5g) OR Mixed almond flour 2 tbsp (17g) + coconut flour 1 tsp (2.8g)] Granular low carb sweetener (option: Lakanto Monk Fruit sweetener or Splenda Monk Fruit sweetener) – 2 tbsp Cocoa powder– 1 tbsp (5g) Baking powder– ½ tsp (2.3g) Egg, beaten – 1 pc (50g) OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS Vanilla – ¼ tsp (1.1g) Hershey’s Sugar Free Chocolate Chips – 1 tbsp (15g) PROCEDURE 1. Melt the butter in a microwave safe coffee mug for 10-15 seconds. 2. Add the flour, cocoa powder, sweetener, baking powder, beaten egg and vanilla and half of the sugar-free chocolate chips. 3. Mix well until batter is homogeneous. 4. Microwave on HIGH setting for 1-2 min until batter is cooked to the texture you want. Do not overcook (cake is dry if overcooked). 5. Top with the remaining half of the sugar-free chocolate chips. NUTRITION/MACRONUTRIENTS INFORMATION Coconut flour variation: kcal - 234.2/net carbs - 6.7/fat - 8.8/protein - 9 Almond flour variation: kcal - 343.8/net carbs - 5.1/fat - 20.2/protein - 12.8 Mixed (almond + coconut flour) variation: kcal - 307.3/net carbs - 5.6/fat - 16.4/protein - 11.5 NOTES 1. Specific nutrition and macronutrients information derived from Nutritionix 2. You may access LINKS to LOW CARB INGREDIENTS at the Low Carb Health Doctor Shops – for both GLOBAL and PHILIPPINES READ the associated BLOG for this PODCAST in the Low Carb Health Doctor | LCHD BLOGS! Support what I do in this podcast, and go Buy Me a Coffee! 🙂 You can also find me in Patreon! #Keto #KetogenicDiet #LCHF #LowCarb #MyKetoJourney #KetoDiet #LowCarbHealthyFat #LCHD #KetoWeightLoss #Ketogenic