Because I'm lazy and I was pretty hungry I decided to try my hand at making:

http://www.netmums.com/family-food/recipes/a-z-of-family-recipes/microwave-mug-cake

Rather than a tasty, microwavable five minute delight what I'm now begrudgingly chowing my way through is a burnt plug of raw matter that could probably be used as an offensive weapon.

I WILL EAT THE ENTIRE THING just to defy the gods of baking.

I really don't know if I can stomach the whole thing.

This sounded like such a good idea on paper.

I've looked at those, even printed the recipes. Don't plan to try them now after reading your review lol

It might just be me. I think I cooked it too long and the mixture wasn't nearly mixed enough since there's a residue of crispy flour stuck to the bottom of the cake (and I use the term cake very loosely).

I admitted defeat after nearly finishing half. This thing is possibly edible and probably won't kill me but the same could be said about cardboard.

The people on the site are praising this like it's a godsend. I think I have a midas touch with baking wherein no matter how to the book I follow a recipe, it'll always come out as some indigestible mush (or more appropriately due to my fears of undercooking, charcoal).

I'm okay with biscuits. Biscuits I can do. Everything else varies.

I took a photo of the thing but I'm way too tired to upload it tonight. I might keep it as a souvenir when I'm done. It'd probably survive a nuclear war.

Something to eat when we're done with turtle soup, I guess.

I was going to ask if there were pictures to go with this adventure. Good to know it has been properly documented. ;)

I'm not known for following recipes. I usually consider them more of a suggestion and then I just wander my way through. I do love to cook and bake though.

That's probably where I go wrong. I like putting things together. Give me a piece of flatpack furniture to knock together and I'll have it up in 30 minutes flat. I'm good with DIY, good with writing software, good with completing jigsaws, good with all things that require a logical series of steps to complete.

Something organic and variable like cooking throws me off when the step by step instructions fail to produce anything that looks remotely like the thing on the packaging. My desk looks good though!

I'm also the DIY/assembly person in this house, but I'm not known for following instructions then either. lol I blame that on too many Christmas Eve nights spent assembling a pile of toys and just really wishing I could go to bed.

I am completely obsessed with time, temperature and exact details when I am canning though. Don't really want to play around with the prospect of food poisoning.

I'm kind of with Paul on the baking business. I am fantastic at following step-by-step instructions when life demands it, but for some reason I do a great job of botching that when it comes to baking. I actually once had a total blue-screen-of-death meltdown in the middle of a grocery store when it occurred to me that I had absolutely no idea how to cook almost everything in the building.

I eventually got over this phobia by going overseas. Going to a grocery store when you don't know how to cook anything is nothing compared to going to a grocery store where nothing looks familiar and the things that do don't taste familiar. After forcing myself to eat my own cooking for four months (AKA eating sandwiches for breakfast and pizza for supper), I then managed to top this by going to Russia for a week.

If you have no cooking ability, no dishes or cutlery, nothing to cook with but a microwave, can't read any of the packaging, and can't pronounce anything out loud, then you cannot eat in Russia. I wound up living off of ramen noodles, crab-flavored potato chips, and cake for an entire week.

The sad part is, that isn't even on the top five ways that Russia almost killed me. On several occasions I had it pointed out to me that my continued survival there was impressively improbable.

I cant cook at all :(

You can come here and visit...I'll teach you :)

Or have your couch visitors give you lessons, I'm sure some of them can cook.

i am an amazing cook. I won the last season of master chef

Oh I tried that before, it was a different recipe though. A bit simpler but the same idea pretty much.

I ended up with a lump of molten hot... nothing. It tasted like nothing.

I cook a mean hamburger