Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake
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Delicious Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake… literally a hug in a mug!

Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake, chola cake, kabuli chana cake, eggless chola cake

This delicious Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is literally a hug in a mug! Dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert, this addictive mug cake made with cooked chickpeas will win your heart. This is just deliciousness, love at first bite and so satisfying! ❣️

Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake, chola cake, kabuli chana cake, eggless chola cake

I make this mug cake for my son for his breakfast every morning and he loves it, looks forward to it every single day. That good! The Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is perfect for breakfast and also makes a wonderful dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily vegan using maple syrup or jaggery, it’s a very simple recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love.

Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake, chola cake, kabuli chana cake, eggless chola cake

Exploring versatile ways to include chickpeas/garbanzo in desserts has never been more fun, more satisfying. I created a couple of recipes while working with US pulses and it was a brilliant learning experience. Chickpeas or kabuli chana or chole as called locally in India, are more ften than never find there way into savoury dishes. Think pindi chana, think hummus, think chole masala, think chana jor garam, so much you can do with this humble legume. For me, the challenge was chickpeas in dessert, or rather cooked chickpeas in dessert.

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Chickpea flour is a little easier to incorporate into desserts and I’ve used it a little. In nan khatais, a native Indian cookie I used to bake when young, or then this flourless vegan chocolate chickpea cake. The cake turned out surprisingly delicious, quite unexpected because that was the the first time I experimented with using chickpea flour in a cake. That recipe can be found in my cookbook.

Chocolate Chickpea Pudding

If the Dark Chocolate Vegan Chickpea Pudding I posted on Instagram a few days ago was good, this Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake is as delicious! It’s interesting how easily you can up the protein and fibre to your diet by using humble chickpeas innovatively.

Dark chocolate vegan chickpea pudding

For this mug cake, I cook about a cup of chickpeas until soft and store covered by the the aqua faba/chickpea liquid in a covered steel bowl/glass container in the fridge. I strain the amount of chickpeas I need out every morning, heat the measured amount in the microwave for 30 seconds, add the remaining ingredients and quickly blend. It’s a quick and easy breakfast or fuss free dessert for that matter!

Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake

I also play around with the ingredients now that I make the Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake so often. Sometimes I increase the chickpeas by 15g per portion, use a different nut butter, or use a little more nut butter, use honey, or a combination of honey and jaggery powder, or then only jaggery powder. On one instance, I added a tbsp of cocoa powder too but found we preferred the original flavour. Oh I also added a tbsp of Biscoff cookie spread over the freshly baked chickpea mug cake one time. It melted over beautifully and tasted like heaven, still keeping the mug cake vegan since Biscoff is vegan!

Protip: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas to get the most amazing cinnamon undertones in the mug cake. Keep the salt to a minimum.

Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake

Vegan Chickpea Chocolate Chip Mug Cake

This is a perfect breakfast and dessert – it’s clean on the palate, is gluten free, uses simple ingredients and tastes SO GOOD! Easily made vegan by using maple syrup, it’s a recipe you can experiment with, a dessert your kids will love. Makes two mug cakes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 36 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • Ingredients
  • 150 g cooked chickpeas warm
  • 35 g whole rolled oats
  • 75 g peanut butter
  • 75 g maple syrup or honey for non vegan
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 40 g coconut milk
  • 50 g chocolate chips

Topping

  • Chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Place all the ingredients except the chocolate chips in a blender and process until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  • Divide the batter between two 250ml mugs, top with chocolate chips and bake for 25-30 minutes until a tester comes out clean.
  • Tent the top with a sheet of foil after 15 minutes to prevent the top from overbrowning.

Note: Add a stick of cinnamon while cooking the chickpeas for a deep cinnamon flavour

    Keyword baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggfree, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, gluten free, one bowl, simple, sweet, vegan, vegetarian
    1. What if I don’t have maple syrup?

      To keep it vegan, you can use an equal weight of jaggery powder, brown sugar or coconut sugar. Alternatively, you can use honey

    2. What can I use instead of coconut milk?

      You can use an plant based milk or even a low fat cream if you like.

    3. Can I use quick cooking oats instead of rolled oats?

      Of course. Use quick cooking oats of the same weight if you like.

    4. Can we have add ins?

      Add in chopped nuts, raisins, cocoa nibs etc.

    5. What if I don’t have peanut butter?

      Use any nut butter of choice.

    About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

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