1 minute Lemon and Coconut Cake - Real Recipes from Mums

These little 1 minute lemon and coconut cakes are so much fun (and perfect for when you feel like a little treat and don’t want to cook a whole cake)! Have fun with flavours – the sky’s the limit.

Ingredients (serves 1 | makes 1 mug cake)

1 Egg
1/2 Lemon or Lime squeezed to juice
3 tbsp Almond Meal
2 tsp Coconut (dessicated or shredded)
1 tbsp Caster Sugar

Method

Combine all ingredients into a coffee cup, small cup sized ramekin or microwave safe little bowl and stir well with a fork. Ensure the mixture fills no more than 2/3 of the cup/ramekin or bowl (so it doesn't overflow).
Place in microwave and cook for 1 minute on high power (based on 1200 watt microwave).
Sprinkle with toasted coconut and gobble up as is or add cream or ice cream on top (your choice how naughty you want to get). ENJOY!
If you are cooking more than one 1 minute mug cake at a time, you will need to increase the cooking time.

Notes

We've been making these for years now - although I had to ban them for a while because the kids and I were going crazy and having one each a few nights a week. Double, triple or quadruple the ingredients if you want to make a soup bowl full of cake!

78 Comments

- - mom103778 said
  - 05 Aug 2021
    9:03 am
I must try this 1 minute Lemon and Coconut Cake. I think I will also be adding a dollop of cream.

- - meedee said
  - 17 Jul 2021
    1:15 pm
Yummo. This sounds awesome.

- - rovermum said
  - 30 Jan 2019
    11:15 am
OMG, this is insane. Soooo easy and looks so yummy. Uh oh, look out morning and arvo tea… here I come!!

- - Blossom said
  - 27 Jan 2019
    3:20 pm
I am allergic to coconut. Does anybody know what I could use as a substitute?

- - rachel1970 said
  - 26 Jan 2019
    10:43 am
Love this and I have ‘pinned’ it for future use. Thanks for sharing

- - tessie said
  - 25 Jan 2019
    12:31 pm
Such a quick treat to make and only one dirty dish after you’ve eaten it.

- - mom112217 said
  - 25 Jan 2019
    11:30 am
A quick and easy delicious dessert! Thanks!

- - linaianna said
  - 25 Jan 2019
    8:07 am
This looks really easy and quick must definitely try this one.

- - not_amanda said
  - 26 Mar 2018
    10:30 am
My daughter was out at gymnastics training until after dinner on her birthday so we’d planned ahead and had dessert out the previous night. But it didn’t feel right not to do something special on the actual day so I made each of us one of these cakes, stuck a candle in hers and we sang “Happy Birthday” to her. She said it was a great birthday cake!

- - rovermum said
  - 15 Jan 2018
    5:01 pm
Ooh, what a great way to use the excess of lemons. Love it!

- - not_amanda said
  - 12 Jan 2018
    9:37 pm
Can’t wait to try this – I have so many lemons I need to use up and this sounds perfect for that job.

- - Shell24 said
  - 12 Jan 2018
    8:26 am
These sound delicious! Thank you for sharing. I’m going to try this out today

- - ashna9 said
  - 11 Jan 2018
    7:27 pm
I love a mug cake!! So quick, easy and delicious.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 11 Jan 2018
    6:27 pm
Sounds so easy – well worth a try!

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 30 Nov 2017
    11:05 am
I like the sound of this recipe and going by te ingredients and picture ID love to try this!!!

- - mom90758 said
  - 10 Oct 2017
    4:22 pm
These cakes in a mug are my favourite!!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 18 Jan 2017
    6:18 pm
This looks delicious – I want the mug!

- - ella12 said
  - 24 Aug 2016
    12:45 pm
Ooh yummy, this looks just lovely.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 25 Jun 2016
    6:48 am
I was looking for a mug cake recipe not long ago but most of them seemed to be ridiculously full of sugar. I like the sound of this one as I can handle 1 tabs of sugar.
- mom19782016 replied
  
  27 Oct 2016 , 11:39 am
  BTW, it was very delicious!!
- - Madeline De Leon said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    2:31 pm
the best part is the one minute! =) love it!