Favorite Mug Desserts at Bliss Ranch

It's January and while everyone is busy getting organized, eating healthy and shedding pounds, I'm snuggled in for a long winters nap with a goal of my own.

Chocolate Fudge S'mores Mug Cake from How Sweet It Is

That goal is not a New Years resolution, because duh, every year I resolve to lose a few pounds.  No this is more of a quest.  The quest started some time last year when I discovered No. 2 Pencils Chocolate Chip Cookie in a Cup, and then I dug deeper into Miss Pencils archives and found she had compiled a whole post of recipes in a mug. 

30 to be exact, and it was my duty to try as many of the 30 as I could and report on my favorites right?  She went to all that trouble to make a tasty list of mug desserts and I wanted her efforts to be recognized, or was it I wanted my taste buds satisfied?

I already trusted Melissa, her chocolate chip cookie comes out yummy every time, so I felt confident I could eat my way through the mug desserts on her blog.

I'm not saying I ate one of these every night - although my jeans tell me it seems like it - and probably not once a week either, but after I read the post "30 Mug Recipes"  I realized unless I picked up the pace, my quest might take several years.

Random Dessert I made that I didn't write down so can never make again

If you have been following Bliss Ranch a while you know one of the things I don't enjoy is blogging about anything food related other than eating it.  So I won't be reinventing the wheel and taking pictures of my desserts in my own mug, you will need to click through to the original recipe.

These are not just pretty pictures of stuff I found, I actually made these mug recipes, you know, like a taste test.  If you do try any of these, tell them Bliss sent you.

And now, stamped with the Bliss Ranch seal of lip smacking goodness, 

my favorite desserts in a mug:

First up, No. 2 Pencils chocolate chip cookie.  I even made it one night for 4 people while we were playing cards.  Now if you make more than one of them, it's not a quick process, but my guests loved the novelty of it.  Topped with ice cream of course!

No. 2 Pencils Chocolate Chip Cookie in a mug

Just last night I made Coffee Cake in a mug from Prudent Baby.  It was yummy, the cinnamon topping was just like a streusel coffee cake.  I loved it and will be making it again.

Photo from Prudent Baby, Coffee Cake in a mug

Peanut butter cooked into things isn't at the top of my fav's list, but I do have a daughter obsessed with it, so I regularly try new peanut butter desserts in search of one to please us both.  If the peanut butter includes chocolate, it's a winner in my book, and add a cream cheese fluffy topping, and well, 'ya it's good!

Peanut Butter Cake in a mug by Yammie's Noshery

Another dessert in a mug we I had often last Fall was Pumpkin Cake in a mug that my friend Heather from Our Life in a Click included on her blog.

Ok, fine, I confess I added more whipped cream to mine....come on Heather that pumpkin cake below needs a bigger dollop!

Pumpkin Cake

I saved my favorite dessert in a mug for last, from Cooking Classy..........

Banana Mug Cake with Simple Cream Cheese Frosting.

I tried this one on a whim as I had a banana that needed to be used.  So one afternoon when Brawn came home from work I doubled the recipe and made us each one.  It is rich and banana-y and made such a large mug cake neither of us could eat the whole thing.  The cream cheese frosting on it with the cake, yummmmmm, made it like a special dessert.

I picked up some bananas just to make this mug dessert next week, when everyone is gone to work or school and I can hoard it all to myself.  Oink.

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