Cake in a Cup??

So I'm sitting here, minding my own business, trying to get some crochet done. Oh who am I trying to kid, I'm watching a movie while Pinteresting on my phone.. Fine, jeez, the movie was on in the background and I wasn't watching it at all.. Whatever...
The point is, I came across this picture..

Oh My Goodness!!

It just jumped at me through the phone and I knew that I just had to pin it.. I mean, would ya look at that thing.. OK, so normally I pin and move on, which is why I have over 1000 pins now.. :-0 But I had to know what the deal was with this pin, so my first mistake was clicking on the pin instead of just moving to the next best thing. As soon as I read the recipe, I kid you not, I jumped out of my recliner (which by the way is fairly large and jumping out of it is no easy feat) scared the giggles out of the neighbor girl who was watching the movie with me and said, "Come on, we're going to go play in the kitchen."
 I'm pretty awesome, in case you didn't know, so when she asked what we were going to make  I said, "I'm not tellin'.."
So I pulled out all the fancy ingredients..

Fancy Ingredients..

And we got to work...

Good entertainment.. 

This seemed to be a pretty good activity for a 3rd grader. Don't expect them to be able to get all of the ingredients thoroughly mixed and make sure you count the number of scoops of each ingredient that  goes into the cup. My helper and I made a pretty good team though so it worked out. Don't forget she had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, but she was a good sport..

So here we are with our cups full of mud and what do you think we did with that mud.. Well we microwaved them babies...  (disclaimer: not the best picture of food cooking in nuker)

3 Minutes in the microwave

And this is what came out of our cups..

I'm not very bright, so I didn't think to take a pic before it came out of the mug, I am bright enough though to know better than to just dig right in without knowing whats below the surface, so thats why I dumped it out.. It looks like cake, smells like cake, and sorta has the same consistency as a cake, so it must be a cake, right? Well to be honest, it was really too bitter for my taste, (and my helpers taste as well) if I was a better foodie I would figure out how to remove about half the cocoa powder and maybe add a tiny bit more sugar.
Once I topped it with the whip cream, it did add a bit more sweetness, but it didn't help with the cocoa powder aftertaste (don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about).

Sure does make a pretty picture though, doesn't it?

All in all, while we had a good time, I don't think I would do this again, I'm not gonna lie, unless my teenage vacuum cleaner eats it, my mug cake is going in the trash..