Grandpa’s Coffee Cup Turtle Cake

• 12 oz mug
  DRY INGREDIENTS
  
• 3 TBL Flour
• 3 TBL Sugar
• 1/4 tsp Baking powder
• 2 TBL Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• 2 TBL Chocolate Chips
• 3 caramels (cut into pieces)
• Optional:  2 TBL lightly crushed pecans
  WET INGREDIENTS
• 3 TBL Milk
• 1 Egg
• 1/4 tsp vanilla
• 1 TBL melted butter

1. Mix together dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
2. Fold in with wet ingredients
3. Pour carefully into coffee cup cleaning any that gets on the sides
4. Nuke for 60 seconds if you have a powerful microwave, or 90 seconds if you have a standard microwave
5. Go 20 seconds more if still not cooked
   DO NOT OVERCOOK or cake will become tough
6. Let cool a few minutes before eating
7. Optional:  Top with whipped cream, marshmallow cream, or melted caramel sauce

CREDIT:  Based on the Chocolate Mud Cake as demonstrated by author Gemma Stafford, and as cooked with her mom Suzanne