A couple months ago, a former colleague emailed me a recipe for a cake-in-a-mug, which gave me the idea for these delightful holiday gifts for my current co-workers. The original recipe created an individual serving that could be baked in the microwave. Unfortunately, the resulting cake was far from desirable; the microwaved-cake was extremely dense and ill tasting...in fact, it reminded me of the cake/brownie commonly found in frozen TV dinners.
However, since I liked the mug-cake idea so much, I decided to use the idea - only instead of baking the cake directly in the mugs, I used a traditional cake mix in Wilton's extra-large cupcakes. I, then, merely topped the cupcakes with a generous amount of buttercream; finally, I added a peppermint stick for decoration (I had originally planned to also top these with chocolate sprinkles, but I accidentally forget to add them before I had the mugs wrapped...)
