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Gingerbread-chocolate flax seed mug cake

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A couple of days ago I found some ground flax seeds in the grocery store and decided to buy some. When I got home, I really wanted to try them in a recipe. So I just mixed some things together and made the most delishious, moist and decadent mug cake ever. It honestly tastes better than the protein powder mug cake I have on my blog. Give this recipe a try, you’ll love it whether you are doing low carb or not!

The recipe makes one HUGE mug cake (or actually a bowl cake) or two normal sized mug cakes. All low carb, grain-free, sugar-free and keto-friendly. 

 

What do you need?

  • 1 medium or large egg

  • 100 grams of cottage cheese (I had 5% fat and it was great; you could also use some ricotta or quark – kohupiim in Estonia – instead)

  • 10 grams of dark cocoa powder

  • 20 grams of ground flax seeds

  • sweetener (I used Huxol liquid)

  • 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

  • 1 teaspoon of gingerbread spice

  • 10 grams of butter (melted) or oil

 

How to make it?

First of all, crack the egg in a bowl and whisk it up lightly. Then add cottage cheese and oil/butter and mix well. Now add in all dry ingredients: cocoa powder, gingerbread spice, flax seed meal and baking soda. Mix very well until there are no lumps. Now taste the batter and add sweetener if you think you need it. i added a generous splash of liquid Huxol. 

Then let your cake batter just sit there for about 5 minutes. This ensures that the flax has time to puff up a little and the batter will get a little bit thicker.
Now if you think it’s necessary, add some water if the batter is too thick. I didn’t need any water in my batter.

Find 2 mugs or one small bowl that are microwave proof and devide your batter into your dish(es). Microwave for approximately 3 minutes, until the cake is spongey but do not keep it in the microwave for too long, it can dry out.

Without any Instagram filters. I added a knob of butter on top but it was completely unnecessary, it was moist and soft without the butter too.
The inside of the cake. Moist! Even moister than the chocolate cake I have baked for my family before (with real chocolate, wheat flour, butter and sugar). The white spots are cottage cheese pieces.

Eat your extremely moist and amazing chocolate gingerbread mug cake. You’ll be in heaven, trust me!

 

What about nutrition?

The whole recipe is about 400 kcal, 24 g of protein, 10 g of total carbs (about 5 g net carbs), 29 g of fat.

If divided into 2 mugs, one portion is 200 kcal, 12 g of protein, 5 g of total carbs (about 2,5 g net carbs), 15 g fat.

Workout Week 21.–27.10.2013

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In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday: BodyPump. Our instructor was abroad (or something like that) so we had a young man called Priit substituting. He was good and really friendly but I like Maris’s classes better.

Tuesday was strip aerobics day and we had a new routine. It was pretty good, I had a though time memorizing everything but I think I got it.

Since I haven’t been enjoying Wednesday‘s body conditioning classes so much as I used to, I switched it up for BodyPump. The instructor that time was Florian and he is seriously awesome. Enjoyed every second of that class! I increased some weights that day, so my currents weights are (keep in mind that the bar itself weighs 2,5 kg):
Warm-up: 3,5+3,5 kg bar
Squats: 7,5+7,5 kg bar
Chest: 3,5+3,5 kg bar
Back: 6+6 kg bar
Triceps: 3 kg dumbbell, 5 kg weight
Biceps: 3+3 kg dumbbells
Lunges: 5+5 kg weights (in my hands, I have better balance with weights in my hands rather than a bar on my shoulders)
Shoulders: 3+3 kg dumbbells, 3,5+3,5 kg bar
Stomach: 3 kg dumbbell

When you’re the last person to be leaving after BodyPump, you have to take some selfies before heading home I guess 😀

Thursday was rest day. Made lovely late night walk with my mom and dog, an hour of walking and almost 5K.

Friday morning started with a small 30 minute walk with my dog and in the evening I had a Zumba class with my friend. I had so much energy, I just wanted to keep going. Could it have had something to with the fact I ate more calories and carbs (2000 kcal and 40 g total carbs) than usual the day before? Maybe.

Saturday was running day. The weather was miserable: cold at 5 degrees Celsius with light rain and strong wind for the first 4 kilometres. I had a goal to be under 7:30 min/km and I reached that goal, my average pace ended up being 7:18 min/km which is really good for me. I keep wishing to get nice autumnal weather on a Saturday to enjoy my only run of the week more but I guess nice weather is over for this year. 

Sunday began with a 45 minute swim with my mom. I swam 100 metres of breaststroke as warm-up, then I did 1000 metres of front crawl (time: 28–29 minutes, not really sure because it was measured by this wall clock that was very far away from me) and finished it with 400 metres of backstroke. All together 1500 metres, I can be proud of myself 🙂 In the afternoon made an hour long walk with my dog.


All together:

45 minutes of swimming

50 minutes of running

2 hours of BodyPump

2 hours of dancing

2 hours 40 minutes of walking

 


 Overall a really good week. 4 weeks until the last running race this year.