Healthy Apple Mug Cake {5 Minutes}

For those times when you want something sweet, easy and satisfying this healthy apple mug cake is the gonna hit the spot. It's made with a fresh apple, cooked in the microwave and uses oatmeal for the topping. Add a little cream, maple syrup or nothing else at all and this little mug of deliciousness will put paid to those cravings :)

Healthy Apple Mug Cake

This isn't really a cake at all, but I think of it the same as other mug cakes like this chocolate one. If it's cooked in a mug in the microwave and is something I make when those pesky cravings hit, then in my head it's a cake. Even though it's more of a mug apple crumble. But hey! It's pretty awesome.

I've put the recipe for one serving, so if you're making it for more than one person simply multiply the recipe for however many you're making these for. It's not huge and so smaller kids can easily manage one each.

Although this is more of a snack kinds thing, there's absolutely nothing to stop you making this for breakfast, and it does indeed make a pretty decent breakfast. The crumble topping is made with oatmeal which I like the kids to have for breakfast as it's a higher protein grain than other grains and so it keeps them going until snack time on a school day. The only reason I don't make this more often for breakfast is because peeling the apples is often takes more time than I have. I guess it depends on how many kids you've got!

There's a healthy dose of cinnamon in this. I use one full teaspoon per mug, of course feel free to adjust this to your tastes, or leave it out all together. Apple and cinnamon is a match made in heaven as far as my kids are concerned and so it's a set in stone rule for us that they go together here.

You could substitute the apples for pears in this recipe. The fruit takes only a few minutes to cook in the microwave and so as long as you use a fruit that is fairly heavy in water content, you could use it instead of apples.

Which Apples To Use

The sweeter the apples you use the sweeter the mug cake will be. I've used Pink Lady apples here. Red apples tend to all be sweet while green apples can be either sweet or sour. So if you have a choice go for red apples. The only apples that won't work at all are cooking apples. If you use these, you're likely to have some miserable faces looking up at you when you serve this!

Cooking Tip

When you're slicing the peeled apple, make sure you slice the apple wedges quite thin. Each quartered wedge should be then cut into 3 pieces really to make sure it cooks quickly in the microwave.

More Clean Eating Sweet Treats

• Clean eating chocolate mug cake
• Banana blondies
• Health(ier) rice krispie treats
• Kids healthy flapjacks
• Sticky date tray bake

How To Make Healthy Apple Mug Cake

Ingredients

• 1 Apple Peeled and cut into thin wedges
• 2 tbsp Oatmeal
• 1 tsp Butter
• 1 tsp Cinnamon Ground
• 1 tsp Maple syrup + extra for topping Pure
• 1 tbsp Water

Instructions

• In a bowl mix the apples with the maple syrup and half the teaspoon of the cinnamon. Put this mixture into a microwavable mug. Add the water
• In another bowl, combine the oatmeal, the rest of the cinnamon and the butter and rub it together to make a crumble topping
• Put the crumble on top of the apple mix in the mug
• Microwave for 2-3 minutes. If the apple is not soft, pop it back into the microwave for another minute
• Serve with maple syrup, fresh cream or nothing at all!

Healthy Apple Mug Cake Recipe